Tara Wall
The Auteur Edit by Tara Wall
The Edit: crafty keyboards, common sense media cuts, & keeping cool with all the feels
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The Edit: crafty keyboards, common sense media cuts, & keeping cool with all the feels

plus a few more things i'm using, trying, thinking, binging or buying.

Welcome to another edition of the Auteur Edit: diary of a female film director — a short roundup of what’s keeping me sane, inspired and awestruck in the madness that is the media arts business — plus my take on the trends, tech and tips for achieving creative success.

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desktop keyboard | 100 list | anthro jellies | Rand Paul transcipt
  1. My studio. Most editors who use DaVinci Resolve, are pretty familiar with Blackmagic’s line of speed editing keyboards — designed to make editing more efficient. Maybe not as widely known but worth considering is a better way to streamline the process for mixing and editing audio tracks. While its line of stand alone studio consoles are used by larger broadcast and film studios — the Blackmagic Fairlight desktop keyboard — is equally efficient at sound design editing. Let’s call it the indie audio engineer’s tool of the craft. Also portable — sets up wherever you do — it comes at a price point smaller studios can swing.

  2. My desk. Speaking of sound design, I’m currently reviewing principal photography footage — like the screenshot you see — that’s set to go to edit for a documentary I recently directed. Premised on addressing an overlooked niche with women in film, its all I can reveal at this point — except to say it was really a joy to film.

  3. My watch list. The New York Times released its ‘100 Best Movies of the Century’ list and its quite a list — I’ve seen many of them. But Parasite — which took the number one spot — I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen yet. Although, I plan to do so before the summer is up. Until I do, I’m comfortable calling these my top five from the list: Kathryn Bigelow’s Hurt Locker, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Greta Gerwig’s Ladybird, Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. In that order.

  4. My cart. My new favorite summer sandal — the jelly — seen everywhere is bringing back all kinds of nostalgia. These were a summer wardrobe staple back in the day for girls like me, and the present day iteration has taken on a life of its own with every kind of style imaginable. The jelly flats from Anthropologie appealed to me since I need something more practical than a wedge that still looks decent when working. Can I tell you, these are so comfortable! I bought the matte brown and although those are sold out there are other colors like this green — which is now leaving me a little envious. Let me just say, these are not my school-girl jellies — they’re the glow up for grownups.

  5. My reads. Six-percent not 100-percent. That’s the figure Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is more comfortable with when it comes to slashing the budgets of public broadcasters like PBS — as part of a $9 billion foreign aid claw back proposed by President Trump. He said as much during a recent interview — with the caveat that it would have to be a 6-percent cut across the board. Sounds potentially sensible for an indie filmmaking haven like PBS, except, Paul admits his proposal is probably a non-starter since Congress is expected to pass the president’s version — which would slash 100 percent of government funds allotted to publicly funded media — when it takes the measure up by the end of week.


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