JC Dávila's BLOG post #9 - First Assembly

My first assembly scared me. When I put most of my scenes together (roughly cut), they added to 54 minutes. I have already identified some parts that I want to cut out, but such long assembly made me think that maybe I have spent to much time working on material/footage that I am not going to use whatsoever. However, I feel tired and blocked going to the final lap of this race. I feel that I am in the middle of a big mess and is true, is the mess of my 1st assembly, which I don't like.

There is so much I want to say in this film, but I don't find the way for things to have coherence. Do I have stories and topics that don't relate or contradict each other? That is what my 1st assembly is making me reflect upon. Do I have many stories and topics that don't fit? What if, even though I have 54 minutes of rough cutting, a concrete story does not hold even 5 minutes.

Doubts, concerns, preoccupations, that is what my 1st assembly is abour. For the 1st time I am watching and working the film as a whole. Obviously this has made me notice many problems. Probably this is the 1st step of something good, maybe this needs to happen, let's see what happens in the final lap of the quarter race.