Tags: KL, location, photography, Production, travel, video

Today was the first day my director and I sat down to do some editing on this footage. It’s going to be a long slow process. It’s the first time we’ve worked together in this capacity so figuring out how each other work is part of the initial process. We’re pretty sure we got our groove down today though so that’s good. The plan is to do a primary paper edit before we start cutting the footage. I got everything logged as metadata then exported the data to .CSV files. Those files I sent to my director here. He’s had a chance to look them over.

Now that I’m here, we’re going over them and conceptualizing the story based on the information we have. We then watch the segments we’re inclined to use while I make subclips of those. My director then writes down that information in Scrivener for later use when I’m doing the edit from America. It’s fairly straight forward but really requires a lot of thinking. We’re using the original treatment and outline as a basis, but naturally with unscripted work, things change because as much as you try and control it, people don’t always say what you’re hoping they’ll say, or they say it just differently enough to change things up.

We were also able to nail down a little bit of the schedule for Bangladesh. It’s been a bit up in the air. Frankly, it still is but we can roll with it. We have a pretty good handle one what we want to capture and the questions we want to ask when we’re over there and really helps. Not to mention my director is simply phenomenal at getting people talking and interacting.

So more of the same editing tomorrow. Maybe over coffee or beer or something in town vs. the bedroom we were in this morning.

My Director Ian of Disenchanted Unicorn

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Tags: documentary, KL, Production, travel, video, workflow

I got in to KL after I think like 35 hours in travel or something ridiculous like that. It’s 7pm here while it’s 5am yesterday in my home timezone. I’m waiting to hit that jetlag wall so I’m heading to bed now to get a jump on it.

The plan tomorrow is to go down across the street to the mamak (the local mostly middle-eastern run corner cafe) for some fried rice and bread for breakfast; most excellent. My director and I will probably take our laptops down as well and start on the story edit until our batteries run out then come back up and continue editing and pulling plot lines. This will enable us to get down to the details of what we want to capture while in Bangladesh.

That’s about it I think for tomorrow. I think. Nothing flashy these first few days except pre-production. I love Malaysia though, I need to figure out how to work several months out of the year from here.

Tags: bangladesh, KL, Production, travel