So when it came time to do the editing different groups were discussing different ways of tackling the editing. One group I talked to had all their members sit in the one studio and work on it together, whereas my group delegated the task to one member.

Previously when I’ve worked on a project I have done all the editing, and spent weeks without input from anyone else, because it was my individual project. I almost went mad. Whenever I saw someone I knew enter the edit suites I would drag them into my booth to get their opinion on a certain sequence or scene, because I had spent so long watching it over and over that it had lost all meaning. Editing by yourself is hard.

And yet I dont think I could do it as a group, all working on it together. First of all it would be very frustrating to have only one person controlling the computer trying to convey what you want them to do, and I imagine having people yell instructions at you while you try and work is not great fun either. You could try multiple people editing separately but I feel like then the project would lack cohesion.

The way were doing it is working fairly well, with Andrea taking on the brunt of the work, and everyone else contributing small snippets or sequences, but I feel like it could be improved with more frequent check ins. Doing it in a group of four though, its difficult to manage to get a time when everyone can make it to the edit suite together. And while doing it this way means sometimes you feel like the product isn’t living up to your vision, maybe thats not a bad thing. I think its better to have something fully in the style of one person and disappoint the others, than to try and mash together several styles and end up with a hot mess.

Maybe the trick is only two or three editors, maybe its one editor with frequent check ins and feedback from the rest of the team, maybe its something else entirely. I don’t know the answer, and the answer could change depending on who you’re working with. Its something that I think will take some trial and error for me to learn throughout my career.