The editing process

This process has been fairly cutthroat, in spite of the amount of footage I located it's still hard to find stuff that's truly suitable for what I have in mind. It's also tough to try and get the point of what I'm doing across, hence creating corner titles for the channel changes. It makes the channel surfing feel like more of a comprehendable  process and when the character gets sucked in engages him as a piece of media in himself.

These titles identify the channel, audience, audio and other aspects that change due to the control of the remote.

Channels- Blue. Format- 01
01- Being John Malkovich- Introduction to the 7 1/2th floor
02- BASEketball
03- Being John Malkovich- John Malkovich documentary
04- Garden State- Ice skating crocodile
09- The Cable Guy- Ren & Stimpy

22- Groundhog Day

35- Interview with a Vampire- Sunrise

44- Network

68- 1984

Now Network forms the next quarter of the film, the portion where we introduce the changing audience. Peter Finch's speech on air in the film itself is inter-cut with different people watching from various locations. I'm switching it up so that these other people represent different available audiences, sprinkled with other audiences taken from other films. The audience shifts are as noted-

Audience- Green. Format- Audience 1

Audience 1- TBD

Audience 2- Network- William Holden

Audience 3- One Hour Photo- Robin Williams in own home

Audience 4- Manhatten- Woody Allen & Mariel Hemingway 

Audience 5- Network- Faye Dunaway 

Audience 6- 500 Days of Summer- Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Zooey Deschanel
Audience 7- One Hour Photo- Robin Williams in others home

The Mirror acts as the first time we see the character directly reflected and placed within the media he's watching. It only serves as a single title because it's uniquely his own, but his reflection often takes place within the media so it's title is depicted as diagetic, as is the image. The 1984 reflection is depicted as a film reel, native to it's environment.

Mirror- White, Format- Mirror


A short shift between sad and happy music changes the audience reaction

Audio- Yellow, Format Music-Happy/Sad

The final part is reality shifting, the remote changing the clothes of our character and his environment.




Reality- Red, Format Option 1

The current edit is clocking in at around 5 and a half minutes, which is about as long as this can be without outstaying it's welcome. I've already been pretty brutal with some of the early stuff, cutting down around 30 seconds of footage just this morning. I don't think that this project would be served by being any longer as it stands.

To get list- One more watching clip. 10 segments of audience noise for the final sequence.

This post is unfinished, the remainder of the specifics of this process will be confirmed tomorrow.