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Int: A small office desk in the middle of the night.

So I’m sitting going through the footage, finishing up the rough cut of Spring.  I wanted to get it ready to show the crew on Halloween.  Karen is asleep on the floor behind me.  She tries to stay awake and occasionally tries to answer a question.  The answers make no damn sense.  She’s sleep talking.  I keep asking questions, mostly for my own amusement.  “Should I use this take… or this one.  What do you think?”, I ask.  “Someone needs to drive the truck.” , she answers.  I wonder what she thinks I asked…

After about 4 hours, I decided to set spring aside, and take a look at some of the Summer footage, and as one thing lead to another, starting syncing up sound and video, which of course lead to me starting to edit the first scenes together.  And it all just looks so damn right.  Maybe Summer isn’t cursed.

It was apparently exactly what I needed to do.  It’s one thing to shoot and record a scene.  It’s all pieces.  Imagine trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle, and you have to make each piece, and that’s about as close as you can get to it.  Sure you have a script and a storyboard, but those are just blue prints and once you get on location, they get downgraded from blueprints to guidelines.  There’s an organic process that goes on in between. It doesn’t actually become something until you start cutting it together.  And seeing where we are with it, and how it all flows together I’m in a much better mood.  I glance at the clock and  it’s 3:20.  Maybe it’s time for bed.

The forecast is still calling for a 40% chance of thunderstorms this Saturday.  But that’s a 60% chance for dry(ish) weather.  Still watching the forecast intensely, and hoping that I have more footage to edit together after this weekend.

Fingers crossed.

I’m not happy about having to stand in even colder water, but hey, I’m in waders.  Most of the crew just go in their shorts or jeans, and they tend to get right in.  And I’m pretty sure the next vacation anyone on the crew takes will be in a desert, where it’s hot and dry.  I hear Death Valley is nice this time of year.

I’ll be back to editing Spring together tonight.  I really want to watch it all the way through and check the pacing.  Then it will be round two, where it’s snip a few frames here and there, followed by a third round I’m sure.  But those few frames here and there matter.   There’s two pickup shots that need to be done for Spring, but those can be shot anytime.  By my math it’s roughly 1.5 hours of editing time for about one minute of screen time, and yeah, it’s about as much fun as dental work. But,  Trinka is just so damn fun to watch on screen.  I’m delighted to have gotten to work with her on this.

Sorry this is such an incoherent mess, my brain is having trouble staying on a single track today.