1.What is your role / contribution to the film in each phase?
Editor.
2.What have you learnt in each phase?
Like every other editing stages, I learnt how important it is to organize your stuff. Not only does helps you to manage your edit, but it also helps to save time to search for the rushes and stuff if you organize it into folders and bins. Another thing I’ve learnt is that always back up your work and save it like every 5 minutes. There was once when someone trip over my hard disk and clever me forgot to set the autosave to 5 minutes..so obviously, all the edits I did for that day were gone. Good thing I was only syncing the clips and haven’t really start my edit yet!
Next, I also learnt that editing doesn’t work like magic all the time. Not all mistakes we did during production can be corrected in post. For instance, if the talent doesn’t perform to expectation, editing doesn’t really help him/her to look better. But since we were desperate during that time and since that talent is the only one who could make it for the shooting, we have to just stick to it since deleting the scene will affect the storyline.
I also realize the importance of sound design. I thought Lost Soles was a boring film but after adding music composed by Phua (which I thought is awesome…especially the opening music) and adding ambience or street noises to some scenes, it actually make the film look better and more engaging. So…despite the sound person being one of the ‘troublesome’ crew during the shoot (like for example, the acting was okay, but the dialogue is inaudible/ ambience not clean/ need to stop packing the set for a while because need to record ambience), they are nonetheless very important. And…try to make more time for sound design instead of merely focusing on the visual edit.
All in all, it’s been a great time working on Lost Soles, though it could have been better…
