The Editor edits

So ’90s

Back in the old days, when the Editor used to be just that — an editor (the TV type) — he used to be locked inside small, dark and stinky rooms for hours, nay, days on end twirling knobs, pushing buttons, getting RSI, being 10% creative and 90% cranky. When the Editor was an editor the editing was done with tapes, tape decks and big clunky edit controllers. When Ed made his recent short fillum he learnt properly what he had only dabbled in previous to quitting the industry: non-linear computer editing — all the kids are doing it. Apparently all you need is a shit-hot home computer and a couple of grand to drop on software. Ed doesn’t have this but his new filmmaking partner, The Jackles, does.

Also back in the day, Ed and his TV mates used to jokingly refer to themselves as independent documentary filmmakers, thinking that it was taking the piss out of pretentious TV wankers but secretly hoping people would like them more for it. Fast forward to 2006 and the Editor truly is an IDFM. The Jackles and Ed are putting together a documentary that they’ve been shooting for the last few weeks and will continue shooting for many weeks yet. Today the Editor sat down to start logging and editing the footage so far and was forced to consider the difference between editing then and editing now. Today’s “edit suite” is located in Ed’s spare room and has natural light and air flow — two things never present in a real hard-core edit suite of days gone by. There is no pile of empty coke cans and chip packets in the corner of the room. The chair’s not broken. Editing can occur in underpants. There is no sign of RSI (yet) and there is access to food and beverages not shat out by a vending machine. At last count, there was 20% creativity, 70% boredom with waiting during ‘capture’, and 10% cranky. A much more enjoyable experience all round.

As you were.

4 comments on “The Editor edits”

Monday 20 February 2006, 12:12 pm #billybob

You are still in a room, on your own, looking at a TV screen for days?
Didn’t you get paid for it, (rather well I believe), back in the day?

Monday 20 February 2006, 12:19 pm #The Editor

Ironic, innit.

Monday 20 February 2006, 4:08 pm #billybob

10% Creative, 50% dull, 40% mind numbing, 100% free. Ed earned more as a dish pig and his stories were less political back then…

Sunday 26 February 2006, 6:43 pm #GrodsCorp » Blog Archive » ‘Brunswick Apocolypse 2006′ and ‘From Bulgaria With Love’

[...] The Editor has been away for a few days shooting more documentary in Sydney with The Jackles and was looking forward to coming home for jLo’s going away partay last night (if she actually logged on and wrote something occasionally readers might know where she’s going…) So Ed’s sitting at Sydney airport about to get on a plane when McBec calls. [...]

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