2025 re-editorial

What I learned from editing “Planting a Forest” was… 1) there was the long version utilizing as much footage as possible, as a way of taking inventory of what I had. The timelines and bins in Resolve were great for that. I
Cut together vignettes with related content, (everything Jim said, everything I said and jump cut out all the ums and ahs. Clipped out best of the drone footage and the best of the iPhone footage and placed those clips on their own timelines. 2) each person’s dialogue footage got sorted into topics on new timelines. My footage had 3 distinct topics - history of the farm, the concept of shared ownership and wilds resonance. 3) I roughed out a master by alternating topic timelines between different people with an interstitial of people planting trees between those timelines. This was quite long, but it helped to clarify what the structure could be. I had the idea of creating a conflict (aspiring to plant 1200 trees but only planting 600) that could be a scaffold. 4) Slashed out non essential elements with each iteration of the topics. 5) distribution version, no color correction or sound mix. So related chunks, arrange these for overall structure, long form, then pare down chunks, revise structure

5-6 days to cut and revise. Polish up coming.