Remember that grand plan to work on editing the memorial day show a little every day, so I wouldn't be stressed in the last couple of days? Yeah, me neither. Actually I know what happened: my job intervened. That thing that pays the bills, which means it takes priority. I suppose.
It's not that bad really. I had done 3 segments earlier in the week (well, 2 and a half), and tonight I got through #8. That means I'm halfway done. Tomorrow I need to edit the other 8 segments, pick out the instrumental music that goes under them and put all that together. And then figure out the rest of the music and put everything on CD. And I just remembered I'm out of blank CDs. Ergh .. maybe I shouldn't think about it right now.
In other news, we have the transcript of Signor Bucca! Well most of it. I talked it over with Georg and Santa Salsera, and we agreed that it would be okay to edit the transcript a bit to make it less back-and-forth. More like short questions followed by paragraph-long answers. I've never done documentary before so I didn't know if that was considered okay. Santa Salsera has done many interviews, for her own show Azucar y Candela and also for the Independent, and she says it's perfectly acceptable. Especially if you try not to change the actual words in the response, just rearrange them a bit in order to cut some of the questions out.
So I think that will work well, the only problem is (of course) time. Santa Salsera needs to record it this weekend, Monday at the latest. And I have no time at all until after the show Sunday afternoon. Georg to the rescue! He's working on the editing right now. What a relief.
I know I've said this before, and I'm going to say it again many times in the next nine days: I have no idea how the pros manage to do this every week. Two interview shows in two weeks feels overwhelming; fifty shows like this in a year would send me to a nervous breakdown. Even if this were my job, and I didn't have another job taking time away from it, I still couldn't edit audio all day. There's only so much concentrated listening I can do before my brain starts to feel woozy.
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