{"id":5930,"date":"2009-01-19T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2009-02-08T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T17:17:27","slug":"new-editing-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5930","title":{"rendered":"New editing policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dude. I just saw the “final cut” of a music video I worked on, which let’s just say I will not be adding to my portfolio.<\/p>\n

NEW RULES (mostly for unpaid projects):<\/p>\n

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  1. listen to the song<\/strong> before agreeing to edit a music video. Editing a song\u00c2\u00a0 you wouldn’t normally listen to is painful.<\/li>\n
  2. do not edit work which will be re-edited afterwards<\/strong>. I just finished a music video, at one point working 26 hours on a week where I was also working my 40-hour-a-week day job.\n
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    • When I was done, the DP got to it and put some stupid shit in the beginning, basically because it looked pretty. If he had asked me to do it, I could have at least sync’d it to the music<\/li>\n
    • the DP also added a bunch of crossfades which make my cuts look messy and no longer sync to beats in the music. This is fucking bullshit. Now I look like a sloppy editor!<\/li>\n
    • Many of my cuts are replaced with alternate clips, for what I can only assume are aesthetic decisions.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea.\u00c2\u00a0 I have the feeling they happened at the last minute, but at this point it was out of my hands.\u00c2\u00a0 The result is now my emphases on close-ups of the singer MOUTHING THE WORDS PERFECTLY IN SYNC THANK YOU are now gone!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What’s jacked is I complained to the director about these issues when I saw the new cut.\u00c2\u00a0 I even offered to cut it back to the more precise version.\u00c2\u00a0 The director said no, this is the way I want it.\u00c2\u00a0 He did, however, give me the option of removing my name from the video.\u00c2\u00a0 But this is a free gig.\u00c2\u00a0 So now I’ve put in something like 40 hours for no money, and now no credit.\u00c2\u00a0 That is lame.\u00c2\u00a0 I supposedly can’t even use it for my portfolio, since my cut is not the “official” cut.<\/p>\n

      Now what’s especially<\/strong> jacked is people warned me in advance against working with this DP for exactly these reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the local filmmakers I really respect actually refuse to work with him. I could deal with his attitude, but if it means he also messes with my work, that’s where I have to draw the line.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not really personal, it’s self-preservation.<\/p>\n

      This is like when I directed a flailing short project with a producer everyone told me was insane. Her director had quit in preproduction. I figured it was just him being flaky. How bad could crazy producer be?<\/p>\n

      That turned out to be a major mistake.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple people on the crew ended up thinking I was not fun to work with because of that shoot.\u00c2\u00a0 The producer, whose name you will note I am not mentioning, slagged me to all her friends.\u00c2\u00a0 I ended up working with all of them later on other projects and made friends, even the crazy producer, but she is still crazy and I obviously won’t be working with her again.<\/p>\n

      I’m used to dealing with borderline personalities, so I guess I don’t really take people too seriously when they tell me to not work with certain people. Maybe I should listen up.<\/p>\n

      Then again maybe I should still rely on my personal judgement and experience.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still building my network of filmmakers; I can’t really afford to decide not to work with people based on hearsay.\u00c2\u00a0 And most of the especially dysfunctional film crews end up self-destructing before the work is finished, so it’s not like there is much I’ve worked on out there that really, really sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Dude. I just saw the “final cut” of a music video I worked on, which let’s just say I will not be adding to my portfolio. NEW RULES (mostly for unpaid projects): listen to the song before agreeing to edit a music video. Editing a song\u00c2\u00a0 you wouldn’t normally listen to is painful. do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}