The Devil is in the Details.

           Our last couple days will be filled with finalizing elements for our presentation. The majority of our work is finished. I'm not surprised we finished a little early. The last six days of editing Joey and I have been working very hard to get it done. That way in case something went horribly wrong, like a technology issue or something, we still have a couple days to fix it. Now is the time to sit around, get these little things done, and relax a little. The things I learned, just over these last few days of editing, have been that getting into a flow of work, where you are in the zone, is key. If I ever lost focus it would take a few minutes to boot myself back up. You have to be fully entrenched in the 30 second or so section you are working on. It requires your full attention or you will miss a detail and it could come back to haunt you. The worst thing an editor can do is tell himself that “no one will notice if I don’t do this” because all the little things you left out will add up and make the film boring or even just plain bad. You have to do all the little details that no one notices for a successful film.