Post-Production

Its like baking a cake!

        Im not sure if thats a good analogy but editing is like putting togther all of the ingredients, putting it in the oven, and hoping that everything tastes good to the person eating the cake. The biggest difference is that in editing you have "Control -> Z" if any mistake is made. Editing is always my favorite part. I just love piecing together the clips and putting my own style into the film. After the first filming day, I had already begun cutting up the interview with Jordan Sanchez and chooing the best broll clips, but its not easy to really put it together when so many ingredients are missing. We started looking for music and other B-roll/Graphic elements such as archive footage so that we had enough content to work with once we got the other interviews.

        After I got the second interview from my dad, I was able to really start creating the structure of the documentary. The base layer was nearly done so I began making the fun stuff. Graphics, B-roll, adding music. They're almost like the sprinkles and frosting on a cake, its what makes it look pretty. I am most proud of the graphic showing the locations where DJing originated and then the transition into Miami. It took a few hours but i am obsessed with it. That and so many other elements really made the piece so cohesive and energetic like for example the miconceptions graphics with the texts. 

        The only probelm is that I got too far into editing and sort of forgot that there was still an interview missing and a lot of B-roll to place. After getting the footage with Alvaro, it was hard to really put his words anywhere since the structure was so concrete, but i had to rework a lot of the b-roll I had already placed, and moved around a lot of the interview clips from the other two subjects. Luckyly, im the type of person that can sit in front of a screen and edit for hours on end, so I was able to rework it pretty fast and then it was just a matter of perfecting it. After refining little tweaks I started getting feedback from people and fixing their critiques until it was time to submit. 

        I am very happy with how the documentary turned out, and even though it still could use some minor fixes, but I hope to submit the final piece to festivals and film competitions. The following post will have the peice, enjoy!