Under The Stairs - The Cutting of A Broken Line

Yebo good people!
Piece by piece, cut by cut, everything is steadily falling into place. Over the past year this movie has seen several revisions, including some really heavy ones, with the most notable advance being between first and second version as I changed the format completely for both picture quality, ambition, and length altogether. Sound has always been intended to be top-notch though, no change there.
As a mainly improvised movie, any new idea, technical advancement or notable location gave new ways to proceed the story, sometimes pushing the entire movie to take a new direction even I couldn't had predicted before that. I was fully aware, even from the very beginning, what my choice in style would mean in technical terms, and that there would often be no way that I could predict exactly how the material would end up in the final movie. That meant that I, already from the very first shot, had to make sure everything was shot in a way that it could be assembled into a serious movie intended for an actual release without ever compromising with the scenes, and never letting it appear static or staged. The camera is always in motion and there isn't any (visible) cuts at all, yet, I'm proud to say that I never had to revise the original method as it never failed me in any way. It was indeed never revised, but it was eventually exchanged though as I found new and vastly improved ways of shooting this movie.
That also meant everything I had recorded for about two months ultimately had to be scrapped.

Not exactly health-food, but good for the morale.

The original methods wasn't discarded altogether though, many of the original tricks and techniques traded well to the new format, and gave me several new ways of splicing the movie together. But where the original photo, due to the limitations of my then equally limited recording-equipment, called for a pretty limited form of processing, the new photage did not. I not only managed to reach a dark, gritty, unforgiving photo I'm actually proud of, in the process I managed to untie the limitations something tremendously and opening up doors I though was practically welded shut! In a figure of speech, of course.