Anecdote

Another editing job!!

My latest editing project was for Caernarfon based “Cwmni Cofis Bach”, and their opera, “Trwbl yn y Gwynt” (Trouble in the wind). Read more at this Daily Post article.

Basically I got 5 DVDs of archive (newsreel) and stock footage, that I had to edit down into 3 specific clips that were to be projected during the production.

It was a pretty short deadline, and was surprisingly a lot of work even though each clip was only roughly 2-3 minutes long. I was briefed to make it “not look like it’s a newsreel” and instead to make it more cinematic or artistic. I decided to crop the footage into a typical film aspect-ratio. This involved resizing each clip individually, but unfortunately the newsreel footage had different aspect ratios throughout, so it wasn’t a “quick-fix”.

I was also going to try and do some vigorous colour-correction to make the footage more cinematic, but didn’t have the time, plus a large portion of the footage was black and white anyway.

It was quite good to have a short deadline, because I learnt how hard it is to edit under pressure…

One last piece of news, I now have some fairly decent headphones, yay!!