| Bruce Foreman |
March 2nd, 2008 12:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by Meryem Ersoz
(Post 834588)
i also have footage of the hook-up and tug, etc., but none of that coincided at the editing point--once i made the editorial selection to intercut between interiors and exteriors at take-off, then the pacing for the take-off was set by that selection...
same thing, as i said before, some of the best aerial footage didn't make it in, because with all the lapses in between acquiring clean footage and shaky footage, it would not have fit with the continuity of the subject or the feel.
oh, the tough editorial choices we have to make! so limiting, at times!
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I can't "nit pick" on this one and I'm not going to, either. Showing something like this, telling some kind of a story, getting it all together and such all with a max 3 minute limit is one helluva challenge (Is that why it's called a challenge?) Flight is just plain fascinating, and glider flight has to have a special kind of magic to it and you gave us some of that.
The quiet soaring scenic from up there was worth the whole film, but I thoroughly enjoyed what you showed us in the beginning leading up to that and the footage on the landing was awesome in my book.
In my aircrew days I used to love standing behind the pilots in C130 and C47's watching as the air field grew closer, the runway loomed faster and faster. On one B50 mission I even got to ride the landing in the bombardier position forward of the pilots.
You brought some of that back for me. |
