September 18, 2005
I started cutting the film today. In correlation with the screenplay, I'm two pages in so far, but it's well past the five minute mark (notable because, when I initially conceived this project, I imagined it to be no longer than that in total).
I've always been a strong advocate of killing one's babies (artistically speaking), but with this first draft of this film, I wanted to give myself the freedom to make a 'long' cut, in which I'd let everything play out as it did while we were shooting. I'm finding, though, that I'm just too judicious an editor to indulge myself like that; I don't get any satisfaction from it. I can hold on a shot for as long as I feel necessary (and my current sensibilites lean towards lengthiness far more than they used to); but already the film is beginning to take form and dictate its own structure, and what really happened on set can't help but be conformed to this reconstructed naturalism.
But I'm done for tonight. I've got get up early for a production meeting, and also to go jump out of an airplane.
Posted by David Lowery at September 18, 2005 02:05 AM
Comments
Man, what sort of life are you living, jumping out of fucking planes?!
Posted by: Matt at September 18, 2005 04:56 AM
A life of the mind, man, a life of the mind!
Jumping out of airplanes is the best thing ever. Almost.
Posted by: Ghostboy at September 19, 2005 12:55 AM