Hello good and wonderful people! I hope you are all feeling blessed and favored today. If you are reading this it means I have survived one hell of a semester. Whew it’s been a mess, I can’t even begin to describe…but I’m happy to fill you all in on the movie I worked on this
Well folks, here we are, at the end of the year of our Lord (or whatever god you do or don’t believe in) 2013. This has been, bar none, one of the craziest years of my short 24 years on this planet. Which is why this post is probably going to be all over the place but I’m going to soldier on and try and cohere my thoughts.
I think the best place may be to start would be with my decision to quit my job to go to film school. There have been many difficult decisions I’ve made in my life and this is somewhere near the top. I realize I haven’t spoken a lot about my job on the blog, for reasons of trying to maintain some source of anonymity from my employer and because I think of my blog as a safe space away from work. But I #minuswell go into it now since this is an introspective piece. I worked for one of the largest EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) companies whose name rhymes with Bechdel up until August 1.
One of these days I’ll learn to edit a film by exactly what the script says and by watching all of the footage. The edit for this film however was not one of those days and made this one of the toughest movies I’ve tried to edit. I asked my friend Fr. Vince to give me his footage at the end of the semester because I liked his movie 30 Day Retreat and wanted to do a take on it. He’s got this Malick like aesthetic that made for a really beautiful film. Turns out trying to edit like Malick is really fucking hard. I mean you can jump cut all you want but if it doesn’t makes sense then the movie falls apart. Taking that into account, and the fact that I wanted more footage of the guy on the retreat and you have for one tough edit. However, I’m really proud of how it turned out. So without further ado, here’s the 30 Day Retreat!