Rough cut.

I've gotten to the point where nothing about my movie is funny anymore because it's all old news. Every time I look into a cut, I think of new material I should have put in as a writer, or an emotional thing I could have changed as a director. The weird thing about editing your own movie, at least for me, is that nothing is really good enough - every time I open the timeline, something gets changed depending on my frame of mind.

That said, the rough cut is coming along nicely. I'm going to be refining it before the big screening with my instructors as best as I can. But I'm not sure if I will have time to show it to anyone else before then.

Definitely for the second pass, though.

One of the things I am curious about is how the montage sequence will play out. I think there's a nice logical structure for the most part, but right now, it's really just an experiment. The musical rhythm idea that I originally planned for isn't working out, because I simply don't have enough people getting slapped in the face. I don't have any music that I can *officially* use yet, so I don't want to restrict myself to one if I can't use it for any reason. But for now I have music laid in for tone:



It's dark enough without being too serious, and has a mechanical rhythm. Perfect(?). We'll see what my illustrious professors say, I am really looking forward to hearing and receiving their input.

Complaints aside, what material I do have is enough to make a funny montage. I won't be doing a reshoot, so that is also good news.