most of us just sat down in protest and made him do it. Then he locked us out of the editing booth and did the edit himself to keep the shot in. we got last place in the student film festival sometimes a oner is a bad idea.

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Yeah, and the reason I introduced editing to my games (I know @blendogames.bsky.social beat me to it) was because one time at film school, I suggested a one take before seeing a location, and when I got there, realized it wouldn't work, and Kelly, our director, made us shoot it anyways.

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... the convention of a continuous shot balking at the idea of a basic editing, and I'm immediately reminded why there's wisdom in eclecticism.

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... when the younger man can barely recite Shakespeare. He makes a point that a good artist needs to look outside their professed medium, to take in the wisdom gleaned from other disciplines and modes of thought. It's stuck with me. I see this anecdote, about devs overvaluing...

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There's a play Dorian and I have become obsessed with, recently- John Logan's Red, about the modernist painter Mark Rothko. There's a line where he asks his assistant if they're at all familiar with anything *outside* painting, like theology, philosophy, literature, and is disappointed...

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