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June 30, 2007

Editing Moxie

I finally sat down this afternoon and got to work on the short documentary I shot back in May. I resucitated the footage from where it's been resting on the hard drive and started going through it, clip by clip, cataloguing it and sorting it into editing bins. After several hours, I'd made my way through roughly half of it. I'll finish it tomorrow and then: parsing and subclipping the interviews! I had promised myself that I wouldn't have any talking heads in the film, but some of these talking heads look so great that I might just have to squeeze them in.

I knew what the end of the film was going to be the moment I shot it. Looking at it again today, I'm not sure if I'll be able to get away with it, but if it works, it'll be amazing. It'll also put the car shot in The Outlaw Son to shame; it's not as long, but it's twice as uneventful.

I've decided to try learning the guitar again, since I've got a guitar here. My fingers are now appropriately calloused. Just like my heart. Ha ha! That was me practicing for all the emo songs I'm going to write.

Posted by David Lowery at June 30, 2007 11:21 PM