So this past week I basically lived at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston where I'm helping the Fast Forward students prep for their big film screening this Friday. One of my students did an amazing documentary on bottled water vs. tap water and she has really good interviews with some experts in the field. One section of her film has someone telling a story for a good two minutes and she says the same thing many times. If this were an audio piece, it'd be pretty easy to condense these two minutes down to 45 seconds or so (OK, maybe "easy" is an overstatement... let's say it'd be doable). But in film, unless you want to have a bunch of jump cuts, making your expert look like she's twitching, you have to have B roll or interesting visuals to cut to to make the editing invisible. Sometimes this isn't possible, which means you have to include the whole two minute clip.
I know I'm just rambling, but I've been thinking a lot these days about the difference between audio and video and how glad I am that I'm an audio person because I just like internal editing too much.
Oh, and to all you Melodium fans out there, know that the band gave one of my students permission to use their song, "Minsk" in her short film. I knew I loved them, but I love them even more now.
More to come after the screening...