Meeting with Amy, the interview editor
I met Jon and Liz at Amy' Cargill's compact yet comfortable editing room to go over the interview footage from when we first met. I want to be able to give the artists a solid take on their personalities and values so that they can begin thinking of how they will approach their piece. Some of the artists won't be able to meet J&L in person, so this video will serve as their bearing. I know they were nervous to see themselves on film. I know how that feels - I don't happen to like the experience personally.
Amy had already gone through a first pass, taking out some of the no-brainer moments. In other words, the parts that either wouldn't project them at their best or aren't as strong as other moments/statements. We looked through the 30 minutes of footage taken down from an hour, that Amy will now take down to 20 for the artists and 10 for the website. I reveled in their succinct and compelling messages that go hand in hand with my impetus for the project to begin with. They are also quite funny, and I forgot that about them - its often distracting being behind the camera worrying about sound, focus, the direction of questions and the track of the topic. By the way, this interview was not masterful with focus. The camera was set to auto-focus and it kept finding the trees behind them outside - the trees looked sharp! They got along with Amy; there was much laughter in the small room; there were not that many moments in the video that they wanted to take out - I dare say they enjoyed it, and were impressed with Amy's talents. I asked her for a picture of herself editing and this is what she sent. Nice. She looks like a cute hipster DJ.
