Edit The Plan: Part 3 of Production Planning
As usual, reality falls short of theory, because editors almost never get exactly the raw material they expected, and they don't always shape it as well as they might. In two previous issues, we've talked about planning the shoot and then shooting the plan. Let's wrap it up here by seeing how to carry planning forward into post-production.
In a nutshell, you work as hard as you can to complete the original vision, and, where that's impossible, to make the best program you can with what you've got. To do this, you need to systematically evaluate and deal with your raw material and then systematically mold it throughout post-production. In both cases, "systematically" implies that you're doing some planning of your own.
In the best production setups, the editor is in on the shoot, evaluating each day's footage and providing feedback to the director to ensure that he can edit the show to the original plan. Too often, however, the editor joins the process after shooting wraps and is presented with a done deal: here's the stuff, now build a program. This is the real-world situation we'll talk about…
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