Cutting and Pasting

'Tedious, I know' I said to Joe as we settled in for our second of two editing sessions we embarked on this weekend (the first taking three hours and producing close to two minutes of film). It's refreshing to see all the footage stuck together and running smoothly. That's right editing has begun which means it won't be long now until everyone will be able to participate in this 12 pound baby of a project. Technical issues come in their multitudes and I can't count the number of times Joe and I jumped out of our seats at the noise of a shouting lunatic director (regrettably me) saying something that now seems so irrelevant that it's embarrassing. Plus, whole portions of the footage is just people laughing, partly because we're all so tired and the other from too many eccentric actors being in the same space for too long. I have to admit my excitement as I wait for one last (full) day of filming before I can loosen the collars on all the amazing cast members (some of which are knee deep in HSC-weed [say it out loud, you'll hear the pun]) and set them free, the next phone call being to invite them to what promises to be a thrilling premiere! We left at a dryly humorous scene with Wally Galbraith (below) who looks so different now, I'm sure everyone will have a hard time recognizing him.