Creative differences are a wonderful thing.
Our director loves driving footage. He believes in it's usefulness as a bridging segment, allowing for enhanced suspension of disbelief instead of characters magically zapping from place to place. It's cheap to do, and it can be very pretty depending on where it's filmed.
Our editor hates driving footage. Sure, it might look pretty and be cheap, but it's incredibly irritating to edit - or, more accurately, to make it look even remotely interesting, unless you're Nanni Moretti or Jim Jarmusch. Sure, driving down a 1/10 gradient country road in the middle of a very pretty forest is lovely - but it's not that interesting unless you do all sorts of things to it.
While we have a mantra, we here at Eton Crow also have a few things we believe in - mostly, truth, justice and the American wei, but also in trying to make things look good while using the limited equipment we have.
This means some judicious colour shifting, slowdown, useful transitions - but mostly, in the case of driving footage, speeding everything up to make it look that more interesting. Yes, linking sections are wonderful, but you have to keep feeding the viewer that sugar, baby, or they'll get bored.
Anyway, let's take a moment out to celebrate the fact that at least one person is now reading our blog - our main 'actor' has let us know that he's keeping track of what we post here, which is sweet, really. So not only can we not say anything offensive about him, we should also say hi -
- Hi, fuckface!
- and then get on with things as normal.
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