Week 15 Update

The past several days have been spent cutting down all the interview footage and editing to create the final sequence. It has been time consuming and stressful, because each and everyone of the people we have spoken to and interviewed throughout the course of this semester have provided such interesting perspectives on the topic of aging. Having to decide on only certain soundbites to use in order to tell an organized story has been a challenge. Although I did radio edits of each of the interviews throughout the production stage, I do feel like I wasted valuable time to really focus on editing. The end-of-semester screening date coming up so unexpectedly threw me a loop, as well. I tend to be a perfectionist and take pride in all the work that I do, so making sure this film represents my vision is crucial. I do plan to edit a slightly longer cut before submitting to festivals, but I will for sure be submitting. I believe the ideas discussed in this film, hearing various individuals' stories about retirement is interesting and  important for audiences to see. I do feel that we were able to film unique people this semester and that having enough footage to work with was never a concern/issue, because of the amount of footage we have. I have enjoyed the experience of serving as director on this short documentary and I look forward to the possibility of more directing projects in the future post-graduations including gaining the funding to make an environmental feature that my co-director Henry Klein and I have been pitching in producing class.