Offline Editor

My name is Jeff Greer and I’m a senior Telecommunications major with a minor in Theatre. I’m also from Boonville, Indiana (same town as the Director of Photography, Shawn Weyerbacher). Again, Boonville is just a few miles East of Evansville.

I am the Offline Editor for the film. Offline Editors and Online Editors, though sounding similar, actually have very different jobs. The Offline Editor plays an important role in the production process digitizing and organizing the daily footage so the Director and Online Editors can easily navigate through everything later. Although we are filming in HD, I’ll be capturing everything in a lower resolution in order to save hard drive space and work faster. The Online Editors will follow my template into post production where they will edit the full resolution video.

So far, I have been putting together a spreadsheet that explains the video file naming structure. I am collaborating with the Director and Director of Photography on the layout and organization of the storyboards. I will also be in charge of notations on our slate during filming. The most difficult thing is deciding on an efficient way to name video editing files. This may seem like a simple process, but when you are on your fourth tape, nineteenth scene, fifth take using angle three while still incorporating time code, things can get a bit overwhelming. Outside of my job I am getting a lot of great experience in everything from lighting to camera to producing. I even got to do a little acting for short test setup recently. Overall, this should be a diverse experience for me and I am anxious to get started filming.