Whoa.

What a hurdle that turned out to be! This editing stuff is hard – especially when you didn’t know what you were doing when you shot the footage. And by “you” I mean “ME.”

Originally I thought I’d have a rough cut in about 3 or 4 months, even with my full time school schedule. It took that long just to log the clips! Here it is just over two years from the wrap of production and I’ve got a rough cut. Of course there is a ton of stuff left to do, and the rough cut is really rough for sure, but the moment I finished the last scene I had this very strange feeling – it was the first moment that I really had a “movie.” Up until then it was all just plans and potential. I could have dropped the ball and decided that it was all too hard or time consuming, and Overcoming Going Under would have become, well, nothing. But now that the rough cut is done I’ve actually got a movie. It’s real and it’s here and it can be watched. It’s not very good right now, because it needs a lot of work on the sound and tightening the cut before it will be watchable, but at least it “is.”

So now it’s time to start cleaning it up and taking it that last 10%. Of course that always proves to be the toughest part of the journey, but I think it’ll be easier than the last two years…at least I hope.

Again it’s time to embark into the unknown and learn some new skills – sound editing, color correction, the festival process etc. etc. This is the part of the process I was hoping to raise some money for so I could elicit the help of some pros, so feel free to donate if you’d like to help, or if you’re a pro and you want to help in a hands on way let me know. I can use all the help I can get.

Wish me luck!

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