This is a section for interviews..... I’m gonna start interviewing people that are having an impact on society and the rest of the world... Anyways.... This is Jade Welsh! Shes dun a whole lot... I’ll let her do the talking....

 

 

nooo apple bananas-the little sweet ones.  Cant's get those in LA.

 

I just finished working on a film called Babel from the director of Amores Perros and 21 Grams.  It takes place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico and California... four pretty amazing intertwined story lines.  Before that I worked on Jarhead and I'm heading back to LA to start on Ocean's 13.  I also try to pick up short films to edit whenever I can.

Morocco? Do you get to edit on location?

Editorial remained in Los Angeles.  They moved around quite a bit during shooting and, especially in Morocco, the locations were so remote it would have been difficult to set up a fully operational cutting room.  I joined the editing team in postproduction so I'm not sure what the other factors were in making this decision.

 

Overall, Jarhead went smoothly.  We had a great crew, a lot of experience among them.  One of the biggest challenges was geographical.  Once shooting on the Universal lot was complete the crew moved down to El Centro, CA and Mexico.  Half of editorial stayed at Universal and the rest went up to San Francisco.  We had a charter place fly dailies from the set to the cutting room where we prepped the film and sent it back with synced sound for screening.  Hard drives containing media were shipped to the editor in SF.  Additionally he was able to share his cuts with the director over a production friendly FTP site called PIX.  We then all moved out to NY for post.  With our film lab in LA, the sound dept and visuall effects in SF, logistics remained on overdrive throughout. 

 

Not just the index finger... we had 500,000 feet of 35mm film to physically handle on Jarhead. But that is going away, replaced with a lot more computer time. Assisting tasks tend to fall more on the technical and organizational side whereas the actual editing becomes very creative. I guess that's what drew me to editing in the beginning-the balancing of the two. That and being at the center of things as the film comes together. It's amazing to be involved as everything fits into place-story, music, sound design...

 

Where did the training come from?

Undergraduate work in the arts and theater with a summer at NYU film school provided a good jumping off point, but most of my training has been on the job and in my free time reading the trades and training manuals to stay on top of new technologies. For actual editing it comes down to putting in the hours and cutting-whatever you can get your hands on. It's about discovering the material and tools you have and developing your instincts to make the best choices for the film. You'll learn that through the cutting room but also in life, books, conversation, music, plays...almost everything can influence your ability to develop rhythm, character and effective story telling in your editing style.

A great film is inspirational. Filmmakers as artists are inspirational. I've been lucky enough to work with two incredible feature editors, Walter Murch and Stephen Mirrione, both of whom I've admired since I've started to really understand what editing was. Ultimately, loving what I do and what I'm working to create is the inspiration.

 

A powerbook....that and a trip home.
My itunes: Wilco, Tegan and Sarah, Ben Harper, Xavier Rudd... and I've put some hawaiian back into the mix after seeing Willie K and Eric Gilliom at the Palace last night-they were amazing!

 

Xavier Rudd is super sick.....  I think i got his tracks from cody.....in a legal way of course.... So anything other then editing on your horizon?

Mahalo for your typing time taken out for this email interview..... Any people or https to shout out?

I think I got my tracks in the same legal way.  As far as having anything else on the horizon, I'm focused on editing-nothing else I've come across yet appeals to me in quite the same way. 

I think I'd like to meet Bono.  You'd be meeting a rock star, visionary, philosopher, humanitarian all in one.  I'd just like to know what was on his mind, what his latest venture was.

Happy to be part of the Kuhao blog!  Shout out to the family of course and Cody's latest work as online editor for www.surfingthemag.com