Filmmaking and Video Marketing

Here is a deleted scene from my short film “Time Is Calling…” There’s a term in filmmaking called kill your darlings. It basically just means to not hold on to scenes or shots that don’t serve the story no matter how much you love them. For this scene we spent about 4 hours shooting this really simple set up. I really loved the location and even though the rain kept us from setting up sooner it felt like a good shoot.

But I had to remove it from the final edit for a few reasons.

First off the audio was terrible. I underestimated the noise from the nearby highway and decided against lav mics. Mistake #1

Mistake #2 was my writing. I wanted to give some context to how my character was feeling and honestly it was just bland writing that added about 10% to my character. Also my acting was terrible in this lol

Mistake #3 was pacing. It really just messed with the pacing of the film. After removing it to see how it felt I realized that this conversation was just slowing everything down. It had to go.

So next time you are working on something make sure to not get too attached, sometimes you have to kill your darlings.