Archiculture

That is our final number of total frames. That is what all this energy and past 2 years has been leading to (with probably 1 more to go). That is the amount of images you will watch and digest to understand the students’ story of the studio. Follow me on my techy, nerdy mathematical tangent for a second:

(24 frames/second) x (60 seconds/minute) x (90 minute feature film) = 129,000 final total frames

To date we have shot over 150 hours of footage:

(24 frames/second) x (60 seconds/minute) x (60 minutes/hour) x (150 hours of raw footage) = 12,960,000 raw frames

Now for the biggie. The ratio of raw footage frames to final footage frames:

(129,000 final frames/12,960,000 raw frames) = 0.0099537 ~ 1.0%

Just trying to bring you all into the realities of the editing process. How do you start with soo much and eliminate 99% of it. It is not just taking the gems out and bam you’re done. You have to pull out the main story content, each character’s development, construct the premise of the thesis, build the tension with the projects and do this within 90 minutes.

So now you understand why we’ve been so silent of late.

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