From the course: Filmmaking Forum: Conversations
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Editing your own footage—yay or nay?
From the course: Filmmaking Forum: Conversations
Editing your own footage—yay or nay?
- Hi, everyone. In this episode of The Filmmaking Forum Conversations Course, we're going to talk about the notion of editing your own footage, footage you shot. Now some editors are very against this, while others prefer it, and we'll talk about both of these viewpoints. We also talk about the extreme importance of getting that valuable feedback during the editing process regardless of your approach. I hope you enjoy. - I'm a big, big believer yo always have to have an editor, because we need someone to have fresh eyes and to be objective. So I think for me, it's all about communicating and articulating what I feel, and then being able to have the editor kind of respond to that. - So I do think that the cap that you put on as a director is different than the cap you'll put on as an editor. You're both working on the same movie, you're both working towards the same goals, but you really need someone later on as you're putting the scenes together to say, "I know that's what you wanted…
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