New video: Sustainability Fair 2007

Last week I finished editing a short documentary profiling the Sustainability Fair the Davis Food Co-op held back in July. I could spend ages tidying it up and making it perfect, but I don’t really have time.

If you’re interested in reading my self-criticism, after the jump are some of the bits I’d spend time fixing in an ideal world in which days last 48 hours, I work for eight hours a day and need to sleep for only seven.

• I’m not satisfied with my timing of the cuts in the opening sequence. I cut rigidly on the beat every time, which is stupid. That won’t happen again.
• I haven’t colour corrected anything, which I would do in a fiction movie, or in fact anything more artsy than a news report.
• I haven’t done a thorough enough sound edit. I find sound editing really tedious. Again, I’d spend the time on it if I were making a fiction film – or if I had the budget I’d pay someone else to fix the sound!
• Some of the text bits don’t align quite perfectly.
• I wish I’d shot more b-roll, but considering Shaw and I shot all this in about two hours, and I had to be somewhere else directly afterwards we did fairly well.

Did you spot any of these problems? Of course, there are things which I’m quite pleased with. I might even describe them as “slick,” but I’m not going to improve as a movie maker by patting myself on the back.