I edit channels
that film alone.
What gets cut,
and what stays.
Footage in against minutes on screen, for six of the films on this site.
FilmFootage inOn screenKept
Forty kilometres of nothing, filmed properlyLong Grass9 h 12 min24 min4.3%
Thirty days, one bowlSlow Wheel40 h5 h 30 min14%
Your rent, explained without a whiteboardPlain Terms1 h 35 min16 min17%
Every bridge in the city, before sunriseNight Laps6 h 20 min19 min5.0%
One lens, one valley, one weekField Book21 h27 min2.1%
I moved for a year. These are the first eleven daysSecond Draft14 h 30 min21 min2.4%
The rest is the job: finding the twenty minutes that were always in there.
Off the timeline,
a short version.
I started cutting wedding films for a cousin and stayed for the part nobody watches: the forty minutes of footage before anything happens.
Since 2018 I have edited for channels that film alone. Walkers, potters, explainers on park benches, cyclists at four in the morning. The footage is honest and long. My job is to find the shape that was already in it.
I take four channels at a time, so each one gets the same days every week and nobody waits behind a bigger client.