Previously, on Game Night Update...
Over a year ago I shot my first short film, Game Night. A few months later my editor said she couldn't finish the project so I found a new editor. And he did like a minute of footage a month. My actors have been emailing me, asking where the hell the footage is so they can update their reels. Then last month I told my editor I needed a rough cut by December. Period.
The following is paraphrased.
So last night I got an email from Editor saying Oops! Sorry, but I couldn't get it done for December but I'll get to work on it as soon as I get back from my trip in January. And there's some problems. I showed what I have to a test audience of friends and they didn't get what was going on so we should probably add some voice over or reshoots.
I took a sip of my eggnog.
I stared at my computer.
I typed my response.
I will be by when you return to pick up my footage. I'll cut the rest myself, but thank you for your time.
To which I got a response of Sorry! I swear I'll finish it! I'll work harder. I'll get it done.
I stopped being mad and finished my eggnog which helped because a third of my eggnog was actually Bacardi and realized how to solve the problem with the short.
I emailed Editor and told him to move one line of dialogue up five minutes in the short.
Then I sat back and thought.
Okay this guy has put most of the footage together. He has nine of the twelve minutes done, and he really cares about this project. He's doing it for free and it looks pretty good and he's an all around nice guy. I know he isn't delaying on purpose.
But good grief. We shot this thing in 2007, it's 12 minutes long and it won't be finished until 2009. That's embarrassing to have to confess when people ask me how the short is going.
Now I'm faced with a choice. Do I believe him and keep waiting? Or do I try to edit the rest myself even though I've never edited anything before? He also has access to a recording studio for some voice over work and a sound editor to polish some of our audio issues.
And yes I realize several of you offered to edit my shit before and probably would have been done by now had I taken you up on your offers.
Oy ve, you guys.
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