Learning to Shoot for Your Editor | ETHConf NYC
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0:00A: I historically was just doing podcasting, right? And I wasn’t shooting to edit. Yeah. And so now I have to speak into my editors Monday morning, be like, you’re gonna do this, you’re gonna do this, you’re gonna do this. They’re sending me lists of things to make sure I get. Yeah. I’m like, is this B-roll right? I don’t know. I’ll do more B-roll.
0:12B: Yeah.
0:13A: And I just upload it all to Google Drive and I let them pick out what they’re gonna do with it.
0:16B: Yeah. And they’re like pulling their hair out sometimes cuz they’re like, oh my God, bro. Like I didn’t, you know?
0:19A: Yeah. So definitely still refining that process.
0:22B: Well, that takes time though. I mean, I’m always learning how to feel like, so, uh, it’s super tricky cuz I’ve definitely done my own edits where I did a, you know, jobs where I didn’t do anything right. I got good footage.
0:33A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:34B: But I didn’t know what to do with it, you know? And it’s just, it’s a different kind of storytelling than photo. I hate it. I don’t hate it, but sometimes I’m like irked when people are like, video’s so much more difficult than photo. And there’s a huge element to that that’s true. But, but like video’s much more about like logistics and, you know, having like, literally I write things down a lot more when I’m doing video. Let’s just put it that way.
