Monday night was an interesting night. Being told to cut, shoot, and edit all under a time crunch leads to things never working out as expected. At first it was awkward trying to figure out who to shoot and what to say, but after a few moments we were rolling. We originally wanted to talk about pet death and how sad we were when we lost our pets and the weird ways in which they died, but when we sat down in our editing bay, we lost all of that. We went from filming horror to humor. I did not expect that or see that coming from what we shot, but it was there. I was shocked by the power of editing. All it took was taking short sentences slightly out of context. Discovering this worried me more than calmed me.
The power of editing worried me because it made me realize how easy it is to change the tone of an interview all in the editing booth. People were talking about sad topics with a dark tone, but we presented out clip as a funny topic with a light tone. What we presented was not the truth and we turned the truth into lies in a few short minutes. That worries me because I now know that interviews can be manipulated to work for anyone’s point. Works can be taken out of context. One part of a sentence could be included and another neglected. Their is true power with editing and with great power comes great responsibility.