Editing: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
By Jim Bask
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was written and directed by Rian Johnson, and hit theaters with much anticipation on December 15th. The Lucasfilm saga features many of the franchise’s familiar talent, including Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley and Andy Serkis, as well as visual effects — some 2,000 — by Industrial Light & Magic.
The film was shot by cinematographer Steve Yedlin and edited by Bob Ducsay (pictured), whose career spans 30 years, with many credits coming from visual effects-heavy films. Ducsay says his work on San Andreas, Godzilla and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, among others, has well prepared him for the challenges of a Star Wars film, which spent nearly two years undergoing post production. He regularly is required to begin putting scenes together long before their visual effects have been completed, and has developed a vision and understanding for how features evolve in post…..
….Talk about your set up?
“We had a reasonably-large staff and a bunch of Avids, and a lot of storage. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of film on the movie and there are an enormous number of dailies, so all of that stuff is all on a network. I think we probably had nine or 10 Avid systems to put the movie together.”…[continue reading]