Wednesday, August 20, 2008 We take the junky moments out... POST A COMMENT I jump back into the editing suite next week, for my tiny short film "After Party Babies," and I'm actually excited because I'll have on my editors hat (and a fresh perspective on the footage we shot). In his new interview, Woody Allen (72), talks about how "unpleasant" the experience of cutting a movie together can be: Woody Allen: 'When you come in here, as I just did that with this movie I shot with Larry David—the first time you put all the stuff together and you show it on the screen, you’re hoping that you’re going to get a feeling of, “God, this is much better than I thought!” And invariably, it’s not that feeling. Invariably, it’s, “Oh, God, what did I do? I’ve disappointed everybody. I’ve made a fool of myself. It’s awful.” Sometimes you’re right—it never gets any better. But sometimes you’re wrong—we take the junky moments out, and the good moments happen much faster. We take a little scene from here and put it over there, and suddenly it shifts the whole feeling of the film. Very often, we come back in here the second time and it looks much better, and then by the third or fourth time, it starts to really take shape. With this Spanish movie, it looked fairly good the first time I saw it. That was true of Match Point as well. 'There’s a definite difference between the person who makes the film and the people who see it, in terms of perception. What appears to me sometimes to be tedious, slow and not worth anything, for some inexplicable reason will delight an audience. Conversely, sometimes I sit in here and think, “This is brilliant, this is so funny, these scenes are so great,” and then I show it to audiences and they don’t get anything out of it. They disagree with me completely. And over the passage of time, one of us turns out to be right. I will say that, usually, the audience is right. Once in a while, you get a film that the audience is wrong about, but that’s a rarity.'(Village Voice) Thanks Woody. 'Very honest perception of the film making process. At the end of the day, no matter how much blood, sweat and tears (and money) -- goes into making a film... 'The behind the scenes drama quickly fades into the background when you put it together; The audience will be watching and experiencing it in a whole new way, and you can only hope connecting with it in the way you intended...'and in editing you need to be that fresh pair of eyes, to get a good grip on what plays, and take out the parts that just don't work. Source: Village Voice Labels: After Party Babies, Editing, Film, Woody Allen posted by Henry Cruz at 12:32 PM 1 Comments:  david santos said... Excellent work!!!! Thank you. Phelps, congratulations!!! "08-08-08" Olympc Games!!! 1:28 PM   Post a Comment << Home     ARCHIVES October 2005 . November 2005 . December 2005 . August 2007 . September 2007 . October 2007 . November 2007 . December 2007 . March 2008 . April 2008 . May 2008 . June 2008 . July 2008 . August 2008 . September 2008 .