Sunday, April 11, 2010

New spin on dirt.

I'm not sure if this is the right turn my documentary is supposed to take, but we'll see.

As I was editing a few days ago, it felt like all I was putting together was an exhausting, extended version of a talking head film. The editing itself was seemed to be exhausting and extended, more than usual anyway. Then when I went out to take Winnie for a run in the park, the way I wanted to organize this piece became clearer to me and I went for it.

Instead of chopping up all of the interviews and mixing them all together by topic and make the narrative flow that way, I would do it chronologically and follow my process through making this piece. Each piece is sort of introduced by a title/chapter, a lot like the way Tarantino does it. We'll see if it really goes somewhere tonight. But I do feel much better about it.