For
each of the the three location mini movies, I then cut them into four
movies based on themes. This produced twelve mini movies.
Having
these four central themes, I then created four mini films about each
of the themes. From these four mini films I would then edit them into
the final film. One reason that I created this kind of workflow is
because I felt like the footage and the project on the screen in
front of me was becoming too overwhelming to work with. This way, the
material in front of me at any one time would be limited to the
thematic content that I was currently focusing on.
Perhaps
there is a more inclusive method to work. However, I edited this film
with iMovie, which seems now like a very limiting framework. For one
thing, this meant that for each of these mini films, I would have to
render it out, and then drop it into a new iMovie project. One
problem with this is that files begin stacking up very quickly, and
taking up a lot of hard drive space. I remember when I worked in
After Effects a lot more, there were options to divide the work up
into folders, and in separate compositions; then the different
compositions could be edited together in special ways; and if there
was a change that was needed, I only change something in the original
composition, and that change would carry over into the bigger
composition.
I'm
not sure, but it seems that iMovie doesn't have that sort of
capability. So I end up rendering several mini movies, and then
bringing them into completely new projects. If a change needs to be
made, I must return to the project where I made that mini movie, make
the change, re-render the mini movie, then bring in the mini-movie
again to the larger project. This way of working seems very wasteful,
and I wish there was a better solution in iMovie. (Perhaps in my next
films, I will try to work in a different application, like
FinalCutPro, or Premiere.)
Actually,
first I made three mini movies, one for each interview location: the
church, the cafe, and the studio. Then for each of those three mini
movies, I made four mini movies: one about music, second about
family, third about New York, and fourth about Ramon's early life. By
this point, I had twelve mini movies: one for each of three locations
for each of four themes.
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