Tonight Tisher, Tim and I edited the Bubble Boys USO episode tonight. At this point it feels like we've got it down to more of a science. We use to spend a lot of time listening to the takes and simply cut them down for time. Now there is a lot more finesse involved. We have started intuiting each other's ideas for cuts. We've been able to easily weave a sequence or exchange from listening to long takes. We cut almost all pauses during dialogue exchanges. We spend a lot more time adding sounds to build out the world of the episode and selecting tonally appropriate songs.
Recording episodes is a real pleasure, having talented friends in and working under our particular narrative restrictions is a joy. It is a different and possibly more gratifying thrill to edit an episode. To create something that is definitive. To put this thing together like a puzzle, to mold it, to shape it into some semblance. Discussing the merits of different punchlines, diversions, scenes, or narrative arcs. Framing something, setting something up, paying it off.
As we've progressed the characters Tisher and I play have come sharper into focus. They are more concrete and so easier to play. Tonight we recorded two songs Tisher and I wrote, edited them, and dropped them into the episode. There's a very unique type of magic in the studio. I love it.
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