This was very painful
We finished our production with two days to edit and fuck...We had like four hours of interviews and a bunch of B-roll. I had an idea of how I wanted to structure the film conceptually but not really a practical one. Sinse the transcript of hour interviews was like longer than a Shakespeare play I couldn't prepare more than the idea of what I wanted, not how. But I received a calling, and I answered.
"Panera after school" - They said
Two days straight editing like 6 hours straight after a whole day of school, with only a ranch chicken bacon sandwich in my stomach. My brain never felt so fried after having to chop down six hours of interviews into a structure and message that made sense. But hey we did it.
As we structured we decided to use the elephant which is somenthing we discussed with the professor as the intro. Afterwards a basic definition of faith and its origin in the story of Abraham. Then we wanted to highlight how this is somenthing difficult, not only because I mean noone sees God but because it also requires a calling, a moral one. We also wanted to touch in the community and later go to the most existencial aspect of religion answering the how and why people believe through Kierkegaard's leap of faith.
Looking back it is kinda crazy how much information we ended up putting into the doc, it is wild that this was able to fit in 10 min, Im lowkey proud.
The animation of the elephant I'd say played a huge role on connecting everything together and making both beggining and end more digestible.
On more insights on how we edited it was pretty much I was cutting the interviews and I switched with Zach when my brain was fried, while Quinn made the graphics. Aneesa supervised everything and gave us comments on the structure and helped us with the V.O. It was like constant movement like at every second everyone was doing somenthing which is kinda crazy.
The second day of editting was finishing the structure and adding the remaining B-roll, so it was a little more chill, but still very stressful.
But I gotta say even though it was very hard I felt really good once the edit was done. I really loved this project.
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