Weekend Warlords Week 4

kids beat up on dagorhirianThe process of separating the footage into individual clips and labeling each one gives me a chance to review exactly what we have. From a media management standpoint, it also forces the editor (me) to put the clips in some sort of organizational structure so that he can easily call up the necessary clips without searching and re-viewing them over and over.

Now, as much as I am in love with FCP and think it’s the best editing system I’ve ever laid my hands on, I have to admit one simple, undeniable fact: the Media Manager sucks. I can’t even begin to describe how it is lacking in intuitiveness and ease of use. So, in my case, I created a series of categorized folders:

1) Interviews – This is for the generic talking-head interviews with the Dagorhir participants, and we have a lot. I didn’t bother pulling out individual quotes yet, but I did try to listen to the bulk of each interview and include careful descriptions in the clip names of what that person covered.

2) Beginning – This is the footage that we shot of people arriving, unloading their cars and trucks, packing their gear up, and setting up their camps. There’s great stuff here, including a knight on his tractor.

3) Battle – Loads of clips in here. Dakota shot some terrific battle scenes, with a few really funny bits. Surprisingly, this is NOT the bulk of our footage.

4) Special Events – There were a number of special events during the weekend — special tournaments, a baby shower, a feast, etc. All that stuff went in here.

5) Knighting – The event that everyone was looking forward to, the knighting of Sir Gabriel. Since a lot of our story revolves around him, there is some good stuff here. This was a night event, and a bit tricky to shoot, but I’ll get to that later.

6) Gabriel – A special folder devoted to the off-site footage of Gabriel that I took – his visit to his girlfriend’s apartment, her art show, the car trip into Kansas City.

After looking at all this, I called Dakota and we compared his notes from when he sat down and watched all the footage a few months ago. But I’ll save that discussion for the next post.

I know I promised a clip, so I’ve pulled out this cute clip of some kids beating up on someone twice their size. Click the picture above to enjoy, or you can follow this link.

1 Comment

  1. Mandi (Shadowria) says:

    Hi, these are my kids and this is so great to see. They love it too. Thanks, can’t wait for the final video.

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