How to Edit an Indie Film

Video Transcript

"So you're starting to edit your feature and you know since you have your script which is the most important thing you know that you have, because that's your outline and that's what everything is about. When you are starting to edit, while you are using your script you know, as a reference and you know I'm sure when you're in a production you know some lines get changed here and there and maybe you eliminated a scene or created a new scene. And so you know just use your script as the outline so that's what I usually do when I'm starting to edit. And I'll know where all my footage is on the tapes and of course you know, I'll just start, it's very sequential, because you'll start you know with the scene one in the beginning of the script and go on and on so you know that's very straight forward as opposed to doing a documentary where you have all this other footage and you are kind of creating you know, a feature length thing. So you know, when you are starting to edit, just follow the script and you know you can make improvements here and there and with the editing it's really the creative process of it all, I mean you're taking all the footage and you know, you're putting it all together and it's a little bit exciting because you know, you actually seeing how it fits. You know you're trying to mash the image in your mind in with your script. And usually you know it works out. Usually you know, most of the stuff I've done is like you know eighty percent, hundred percent of how I had it in the script turn out exactly how I wanted it to so. So definitely it helps sticking with the script and editing in a very kind of sequential linear type of thing and generally for future, it takes a couple of months to edit if you work on it pretty regularly, I would give you, you know probably a couple of months."