Warhouse Edit

Yesterday afternoon I went to check up on the Warhouse edit. The Warhouse is a feature I worked on as a focus puller earlier in the year, it was in fact my first job as focus puller so I was keen to check up on it and see how many shots I'd got soft!!

I got into the office and was welcomed by Luke Massey (director, DOP,) Mark Kendrick (sound, editor,) Ben Read (executive producer,) Wigsy (actor) and a few other people who were always around on set to help out where ever needed.

At the end of the shoot Luke told me that we had 52 hours of footage to cram into aprox a 90 min film, which is a pretty mammoth task for any editor, Especially when the edit suite is the size of a shoe box and crammed with all the film equipment as well as Mark and Luke. But I was pleased to see that they had moved into a larger office and they were in talks about setting up green screen studio in the office!

Bearing in mind that there was 52 hours of footage to scan through as well as logging some of the tapes as our hard drive died half way through the shoot i was amazed to hear that they had completed a rough cut (running in at about 3 hours 40 mins!!) and had started on on the final offline edit. I was treated to a sneak peek at the opening scene which I thought was brilliant (and all the shots were sharp, much to my relief!) It looks beautiful and builds tension really well to set the scene for the rest of the film! Good work guys, well impressed!

Luke also showed me a short selection of out takes which brought back some very good memories of what was a brilliant shoot. Some very unexpected lines from Joseph Morgan (lead actor), Some ridiculous clapper boards from our camera assistant Dave Robinson and a bit of Wigsy the friendly fallen in there to.

Hopefully I will have more opportunities to check up on the post production of this film, and I will keep you updated as and when I do. But if you would like to hear more about the progress of the warhouse in post-production then check out the Director, Luke Massey's blog at: http://afistfuloffilms.wordpress.com/

The picture shows Luke and Mark hard at work, probably reveling at how amazing the second monitor looks after 2 months of editing with out it!