From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing

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Removing significant things

Removing significant things

- [Narrator] As an editor you absolutely must make peace with the fact that you will be cutting out important things from a film. Things that mean a lot to the director or that cost everyone tons of time and money. But your job is to not care about that at all. You have to be a guardian of the story first and foremost. On the assurance, a model friend of mine Kelsey Tiger volunteered to come to this Japanese garden and get this footage. And we had to schedule and cancel a few times because the leaves had to be just right and we had a very tight window before the blossoms were gone. Kelsey had to awkwardly change into this complicated wardrobe in a public park bathroom. It was a long walk to this spot from the entrance to the garden and she didn't get paid anything, we filmed it on a hot day, but I really wanted this shot to show how the world used to be beautiful and abundant. However in the re-edit we had to cut that scene and also that entire story line out. There was no place in…

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