Looking at the last entry, Squawker Productions was in blissful ignorance to the long, frustrating road it would face in the Post-Production of Caught on Camera. Wow, and when we thought getting this film in the Can was a nightmare! This short certainly has tested the production team’s patience. Juggling other shoots, trips to Berlin and Cannes Festival then Hungary, Brussels, Dubai mixed in with a series of delays (including redecoration and refurbishment of The Yard, life threatening illness and hospitalisation) has meant the 1st Online Edit has only just been embarked upon.
Well, this is what filmmaking is all about: damage limitation. The break gave Director Julia Scott-Russell and Editor Keith Wilson a whole fresh perspective when looking at the film again.
January – Caught on Camera ’s running time: 12 minutes 45 seconds (excluding credits).
Objectivity was gained in the break. The film, which was written to be under 10 minutes, now needed to be re-edited. It simply was not an over 10 minute story. Caught on Camera under went a complete structural overhaul, with 2 working days out the 5 in the story being dropped, giving the Short a three act feel and combined with visual devices of split screens has made for a completely different Short to the one sitting in the Avid before Christmas.
Cutting scenes out is like cutting fingers off a baby: although time and money could have been saved with losing the scenes before shooting started, the production team know the real value of Edit. We are mere slaves to the story and telling it in the best way possible.
27-28th May – New off-line conformed, amongst other things, 4 and 9 split screens added, Matt Wasser’s excellent titles were cut in, as well as his CCTV camera, date & time plate dropped were on top of CCTV footage.
Next Online date TBC.
Keep watching this space folks…!
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