Other: Editing, fast cutting or not?

I always equated editing with making music. Every voiceover has a tempo as well as any music and dialog that may be in a video. Sometimes your cuts serve the voice, other times the music. Or the silence.
Just like most good songs change tempo a few times, so should video. I've noticed the very best editors I've worked with are often musicians, as well.
 
Hey Morgan

Great way to get a frsh eye on something you've prob gone numb too. I used to find that a reaL issue when I edited a lot. You need time (or a slightly altered state sometimes helps) to keep seeing the last few details with an accurate eye.

I like both the spots but here is what I'd change

1, at about 02:06 (KIDS) Boy swinging I'd replace, or use danother angle. The color is off maybe, hes not smiling or I'm not sure what it is, it feels weak with the rest.

2 at about 20:00 Girl looking askance, great shot that sits just too long, shave maybe 12 frames- dont let it die

other than that love it

With the food spot I agree with Ben on the pizza - my other niggle is the shot about 24:00 of the basil leaves in a box? this falls flat after the other lively images.
I would want to see someone jamming some food in their pie hole at this point if you have it

nice stuff
 
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Hey Morgan


1, at about 02:06 (KIDS) Boy swinging I'd replace, or use danother angle. The color is off maybe, hes not smiling or I'm not sure what it is, it feels weak with the rest.
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I should haver operated.. aka panned down.. also I filmed too many angelic little girls with flowers and face-paint and not enough boys as they mainly were hitting stuff with sticks and other boy activities that don't really push the vibe :)
 
I just shoot what I know will be needed and add a bit for safety.

Footage-blindness is a horrible thing in an edit. So many people have a shooting ratio of 200:1 or more. If it's for me to cut I'll know what I want and need and if it is for someone else to cut then I'll ask and work out what sort of options they'd like and give them that. Overshooting is something I have had to wean myself off of over the years. That said I still shot 22hrs of slomo footage for a 90 second piece :embarasse

You can hide a lot of stuff in that piece you posted as an example. I like it, but but using Twitch and doing what I've always referred to as Dubstep editing (Christened after a week of doing shoots all day and edits all night for a videogame sponsored by an energy drink where we'd end up randomly cutting 50 times on a timeline to a dubstep track and it would ALWAYs fit) clearly don't work for everything.

As an aside, unmotivated focus pulls are basically worse than Hitler. Only a few steps below 'handheld for no artistic reason' and the '15 degree apart b-cam' interview shot.

EDIT: No idea why you deleted that Nirv. I thought your approach was very interesting and I certainly wasn't saying you were wrong - just that my approach was different. Un-delete it!
 
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Yeah. Nirv posted something interesting about his approach with some good links and then deleted them because he thought I was having a dig. Which I wasn't.
 
Just a thought Morgan, but in KIDS you have the action/fun covered really well. it's there, another shot of a kid reacting - ECU maybe, eyes/wonderment would be good if you take the swinger out.
 
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