Plugging In To the Creative Source
For as much as I love it, editing can be mind numbingly tedious. Logging bites, collating ideas, organizing clips. Sometimes I think about it like climbing a mountain (not that I've ever climbed a mountain, it just serves to give visual form to my point). When you are standing at the base of the mountain looking up ... it seems incredibly daunting, even impossible.
You take a deep breath, and you start climbing; one foot in front of the other. Eventually you get there.
Editing is a lot like that. The real magic doesn't happen until about 80% through the whole process. It's subtle, and amazing. After all the tedium, the story slowly starts to take form, like playing Tetris with sight and sound. You never know exactly what you will get.
This is the change that I live for. The moment that the story presents itself. It's worth all the grunt work.
I'm working on several projects right now, that are in the logging phase. It's daunting. Seeking the energy to push into the flow is the hard part.
It's a darn good thing that I love this work as much as I do.
Time to start climbing.
Posted: 7/11/2009 1:42:37 PM | 0 comments | Filed under: creativity, discipline, editing, story, telling, video