Editing and rain
Today was the first time that it rained..no..poured down, since I came back to New Zealand. It was a pleasent change feeling the rain. My other flatmate, Greg, has come back from his holiday in South Africa and now the flat is truly international - a south african, a kazhak, an indian and a kiwi living in the same house. Greg got a new car stereo system, so he gave me his old car stereo system {which is 4 months old} and I am thrilled to pieces - I will try and find out if someone can fit the stereo in my car. It was really kind of Greg to do that and the thought of listening to music in my car is a thrilling sensation - the only music that car has heard is the creaks and groans of different car parts.I got my second {final) package from amazon and it includes: In the Blink of an Eye(a book) and The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (a documentary). I plan to watch the documentary later tonight but I have started reading The Conversations: Walter Murch and art of editing film , a book I borrowed from Gerben. It is amazing getting back into the world of creative editing.
Off to watch the doco and then onto 'The Conversations'.
Amit
{Update - Finished watching 'The Cutting Edge' and it is a really interesting doco, highly informative and essential viewing if you are a filmmaker, critic or a film student. I would say it is a companion piece to 'Visions of Light' - which is an excellent doco for understanding cinematography and film making. There are some nitpicks though - since the doco has been released by Warner Brothers - some of the movie choices by the doco director come as a little bit odd {who in their sane mind would want to include a Steven Segal movie - 'Under Siege 2' amonst the otherwise good examples} and wishes that they were able to access footage from other studios as well. Another minor thing was the amount of time spent with Walter Murch editing 10 seconds of 'Cold Mountain' - it was fascinating to watch but still the amount of time spent there could have been less. I didn't like 'Cold Mountain' as a movie and so I definitely can't connect to the wonderful editing in that {and more so when the editing process for that movie is so hyped up by Apple computers, who have released a seperate book which is titled 'How Walter Murch edited Cold Mountain using Final Cut Pro'}. But those are minor nitpicks and it is otherwise a wonderful doco and hearing all the different point of views of editors and directors (most of them legendary) is mesmerizing to say the least. It is a must see doco and I would highly recommend it. Watch it if you get a chance}
posted by Amit @ 8:50 PM
3 Comments:
Coincidently, I am reading 'conversations' right now as well.
I read 'behind the seen - how walter murch edited cold mountain using fcp...' several months ago and found it facinating. I didn't especially like Cold Mountain either, although I found it decent. But the book is great as it gives an in depth look at the the post-production process for a major film and Walter Murch is a facinating person as well. Incidently, the book was not produced or published by Apple at all. It was done totally independant of them. In fact in most reagrds, the book does not make Apple look too good because Apple gave almost zero support and had absolutely terrible PR.
Anyway, Walter Murch most recently edited Jarhead on FCP as well...
Thats good to know that the book wasn't published by Apple. I might get around to reading that as well.
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