Detective A

I spent over 100 hours editing, audio sweetening, and effects on Detective A, a 10 minute short movie written and directed by Victor A. Nieto, and the hard work paid off — We won, or I should say I won, the Best Technical Achievement award — some think that the award went to the entire group but honestly what did they do to achieve a TECHNICAL award?  Camera?  Acting? Lighting?   I laugh.  In fact once the award was received by Victor, both he and Eric Shackleford, pointed to me as Victor said, and I quote, “This really goes to Gerry our Editor and technical guru.”

Now after spending many more hours creating an extended 16 minute version, I added (winner) under my name in the credits and created an EDITOR’S CUT DVD — Mr. Director was not pleased.  “I can’t show to to my family as my film.”  “I can’t give this to graduate schools as my film.”  “Have you ever heard of an Editor’s cut?” “The award went to the whole production not just you.”

So I fixed his wagon.  I took off the 5 trailers that I made without his input and I took off the longer version that I made without his input as well; hence the name EDITOR’S CUT.  It’s NOT his movie… Well… In a sense I took the original and retooled it, moved things around, added more footage to the scenes, did more effects, wrote extra music, and so forth.  So it is MY version, MY story plot, and MY EDITOR’S CUT from his original movie, which makes it NOT his film to take credit for — he can have the 10 minute original version which he and I both worked on for 12 hours and then I took it home and spent 50 hours more working on it

Anyway, barring the immaturity of the individual who reminds me of someone who used to be family by marriage and his arrogant egotistical, all for him attitude, the whole experience was worth it and fun.

So much so, that I wrote another story called Chardonnay with the cast and crew in mind — well, some of them anyway.

You can see the TRAILERS that I cut for Detective A at the Detective A website.

This month: November 1 – 10th, 2009 the USERNAME is: b3e24 PW: frnka

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