New edit of Washer Woman

Since the last post a couple of months ago I have had to totally re-negotiate the raw material and edit for the work we shot on this project. Having edited quickly using Lightroom to export mp4 timelapse pieces at 15 frames per second and then Premiere to edit the sequences together, and integrating video shot on set, I have discovered that this workflow is a complete disaster! Firstly, I have had to take all the array sequences from Lightroom to Photoshop to align them all against the grid background (long story, but we aligned the cameras to the centre of the set but the array sequences were really jittery with the gridded background almost strobing across the back of the set) and then re-export the individual frames as Tiffs. These were then sequenced at 8 frames per second in After Effects and the film was edited in layers with adjustments to levels and colours to try to match up the various cameras and capture styles represented as well as I could. I know there still needs to be a lot of work done on the grading and the movement needs a final edit with osound, but I thought I'd post this as an acknowledgement of the re-thinking of the workflow and as a semi-final edit.

I am meeting with Carol wellman Kelly (choreographer) this afternoon to talk about how the piece works (or doesn't) as an exploration of movement from a choreographic perspective so am looking forward to her notes about what we could consider for the final edit. I am also in discussion with a sound compoer about ways of approaching the sound, so it's good to finally start to get the bal rolling on this side of things.

Credits - Thanks to Clelend Jones for editing advice in terms of workflow, and instruction on how to use After Effects! Also thanks to Mira Soulio to assistance on the alignment as well as editing.