12/08/2026
This is my unnecessarily introspective hot take of the day, but actually as long as you’re alive you’re basically recording 24/7.
Let me explain…
Everything that we see is captured and our brain is like the hard drive where all the files are stored. At the end of the night when you go to sleep before you pass out a movie might flash through your mind - a series of scenes and images all of the things that happened to you that day
And then you wake up the next day and go on with your life all you are left with is the memories - but our brains are very selective as to which memories we keep and which ones we discard. I think this process is actually quite similar to video editing.
When I come home from a big shoot, I’ve got a huge SD card full of files, but not all of them actually get used. The process of video editing is all about cutting away that which doesn’t serve the story. And what you were left with is the finished product.
What do you choose to focus on? What stands out to you in your mind? It’s different from person to person, but I see this as the filter that we all experience life through.
If you choose to focus on the positives you might be left with all of the happy moments floating through your head but if you focus on the negative you might just keep all of the bits that represent that particular feeling.
Having a positive outlook is about cutting out the negative noise that doesn’t serve the experience you want to have in this life. I think this skill is essential to good editing (and also good living!)
Because if you’ve got the wrong outlook, by definition, you’ll probably keep the wrong clips in the timeline, and the finished edit might not make anybody feel anything positive.
You’ll also spend way too long ruminating over the one negative thing that happened instead if all the positives.
Yehhhh this is how my crazy brain works :)))
