01-05-2017, 10:55 AM
The last cut came in at about 2:06. I watched it with HK before Christmas. It made me sleepy, which is not a good sign.
Since I returned to Los Angeles, I finished going through the last 4 Hungarian interviews and adding their salient bits to the film which brought me in the wrong direction to 2:35. I spent the last three days cutting and now I'm back to 2:02. Woohoo. I just spent the morning watching the film and I've upgraded my opinion to not horrible, which is probably a bad sign. There are some bits I enjoyed and I think actually work. Best of all, I felt engaged throughout the film, i.e. not sleepy.
Now I'm going to sit down and lop another 30 minutes out of the film. I have a few pictures and few bits of archival photos but nothing extreme. There are a ton of shots I wish I filmed better and did a better job with the sound.
Since I returned to Los Angeles, I finished going through the last 4 Hungarian interviews and adding their salient bits to the film which brought me in the wrong direction to 2:35. I spent the last three days cutting and now I'm back to 2:02. Woohoo. I just spent the morning watching the film and I've upgraded my opinion to not horrible, which is probably a bad sign. There are some bits I enjoyed and I think actually work. Best of all, I felt engaged throughout the film, i.e. not sleepy.
Now I'm going to sit down and lop another 30 minutes out of the film. I have a few pictures and few bits of archival photos but nothing extreme. There are a ton of shots I wish I filmed better and did a better job with the sound.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm