How to fix a scene in Post-Production?

Another full day of editing Alien Echo, my latest short film, and today was a real puzzle solving situation.

I edited yesterday as well, and I had done a really good job of tightening. But there was a particular moment in a particular scene that was not quite working in the edit suite, purely because we did not quite get the shot we needed, the B roll shot.

This morning, when I did my morning pages, which are my three pages of non stop writing that I do every day, suddenly the puzzle was solved and I figured out what I needed to do in the edit suite. I needed to tighten another part and put it together differently.

That is the beauty of leaving things sometimes and then coming back to them. I definitely find that happens in the edit suite. It is great to be working and working and working and then stop and sleep and think about it. Doing things like morning pages means I actually get an opportunity to try to solve those problems.

Today has been great because it is another super tight edit and those problems are solved. It has actually gotten a bit shorter again, which has been my goal from the outset, and I really like that. It is a tighter sequence and I am happy with the problem solving I came up with in the edit suite today.

So onwards and upwards. The next stage, when I get some more time to edit again, will be to go through all the sound editing and dialogue and then move on to the music.

It is exciting and it is really progressing in a great way and in a nice creative way.