I’m mildly excited at the moment as this weekend I’m helping Ken Colley shoot a little short which I’ll be editing for him. He’s hiring a Canon XL-H1 for the shoot, so it’ll be my first foray into the world of Hi-Def (albeit HDV).
I’m hoping to have the first cut of Voice of Silence finished by the weekend so I can put it away while I do Ken’s short (it’s only 6 pages long, so I doubt it’ll take too long to edit). The edit is coming together nicely, though my version will be significantly shorter than Chris’s original one and half hour cut.
I’ve four sequences left to edit and it’s currently running at 35 minutes, so I’ll doubt my version will come in much over 45 minutes. With credits and a little TLC to sort out pacing and introduce some of the concepts that Chris picked up on in shooting which aren’t in the script, I reckon it’ll be about an hour.
Ken’s short, ‘Alligator’, is almost a prequel to House of Donn, inasmuch as he plays a character very similar to the one he played in HoD. It’ll be interesting to see how he directs as well. I’ll try to take a few snapshots along the way…