17 November 2008
It’s a Bond world.
Posted by admin under: Filmmaking; Movie .
This past week, like everyone else, I went to check out the new bond film. After the great “Casino Royale,” this film wasn’t as good. It had a lot of great action scenes but it just felt I wasn’t watching a real bond film. The film felt more like another “Bourne”adventure, instead of a “Bond” film.
A great thing about living in NYC, we have a few more options then the rest of the country. Case in point, two days before the film, I went to the NY Post Counfrrence to see one of the editors, Rick Pearson, speak on his experience and working on the film. Here are some of the highlights:
On working with a co-editor: They whould split up the scenes as they came in. For example, one was working on scene 5 and the other was working on scene 26, if scene 25 came in, the one that was working on the scene after would work on the new scene. They would then cut scenes/ dailies as they came in and if they assembled something and realized it was missing a cut away or a reaction shot, they would contact the production team and ask them to shoot it, if the set was still hot.
On the action scenes, they followed the director’s notes and keep it very quick and not focus on the details too much, that’s why when you watching the first action scene your not sure if it’s bond’s car that’s in the scene or the bad guys at times. The director didn’t want to have everything explained and wanted an air of abiguety.
On cutting scenes with music, he would cut the scene first then put the music down, because if you do it the other way, you get a false sence of security. If the producers decide to change the music at the last minute, the edit might not work.
The biggest advice he received was to be tenacious and go after what you want. He got where he is because he wouldn’t take no for an answer.
