My project has been a monster of my own making. Most of my interviews average to about an hour, featuring an honest conversation about religion, only loosely guided by my hand as a director. I tried to allow new avenues to develop in the conversations, rooting my questions in ideas about different aspects of religion and how we feel about those religious components in the beginning and toward the end of our lives. Now, I find myself ready to edit together a behemoth 16-17 odd hours of interview footage to maybe 3 or so hours of abstract imagery, resulting in a 12-16 minute final film.
My greatest challenge so far has been shaking loose the remaining production tasks and getting myself into a post-production mindset. In my mind, the edit is reasonably simple. I don't want anything too busy, I want something stripped down and meditative, allowing the audience to slowly develop associations between imagery and audio. Additionally, I want to set up a sort of percussive rhythm between audio and silence/sound design and imagery and darkness. I also want to use cameraless without joining audio because I don't want to distract one component from the other. Of course, the trouble is that my cameraless has yet to be completed and I am just now finishing up my interviews. It's a little difficult gaining a full idea of the direction of the project while I'm still getting vital components (the academic perspective). Luckily, I just got an interview with Theology professor and I'm in the process of setting up an interview with a Literature professor and so I will be in a position to switch gears soon.
I'm probably too enamored by this project but I know Michelle will keep me grounded. I look forward to discovering the final shape The Holistic will take.
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