4 Minutes and 34 Seconds

I'm pretty amazed at how the editing is going.  It is Wednesday night again.  I'm finally home after my day gig and then the editing room.  It's pushing 11pm.  I'm wrecked.  But tonight they had to pull me away from the Mac.  I would have edited all night if I could.  And you know why?  Because this thing is starting to edit itself.  Maybe it's because there is so much music in it.  Maybe it's because the interviews are so powerful to me.  But whatever it is, one thought leads to another which in turn tells me what the next edit should be.  And this is happening so beautifully that my Wednesday Night Mentor over at CAPS-TV told me not to jinx it by saying so out loud. 

I'm 4 minutes and 34 seconds in.  I've got my opening sequence, the beginning of the concert, Todd Goehner's interview, the first storyteller, a lady named Donna, and then Donna's interview that goes in and out of her performance.  Donna slept in her car for 6 months and she now lives at River Haven, a tent city near the harbor in Ventura.  I think she's been living there about 2 years.  She's a brave soul that lady.  Donna wrote a poem for the "Voices of the Homeless" performance so she could get some emotions off her chest.  I think the poem rocks.  The whole quartet improvised behind her.

I can't believe how scared I was to start the editing process.  Now I can't wait for this Saturday when I get to edit again.