First Cut is the Deepest
Is That Something You Might Be Interested In
Doug Ellin
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Action Park Media. |
| 0:08.0 | All right, welcome to ramble on. |
| 0:10.0 | I mean, we just left the editing room about 20 minutes ago and our, you know, just so everyone knows how this kind of works. |
| 0:19.2 | Like normally we would have an editor |
| 0:21.3 | for like six to eight weeks. I had an editor for three days because I wanted John Corn who did |
| 0:28.5 | Entourage Season 1 and is awesome. And he told me when he started, I had a limited amount of time. |
| 0:34.7 | And we got there and we got a great first cut. And what I want to talk about today is the first cut, which a lot of people, there's a famous |
| 0:42.9 | saying that people say in Hollywood, your film or your show is never as good as your dailies |
| 0:47.4 | and never as bad as your first cut. Our first cut is excellent. And now after the screening, |
| 0:53.7 | what I've done and gone deep diving in for the last |
| 0:56.8 | eight days is to get every negative thought that I could find from every person that was at |
| 1:03.4 | that screening. And, you know, what happens is when you show your movie to a friendly crowd, |
| 1:08.6 | everybody tells you they love it. Okay. And you got to parse |
| 1:11.9 | through that. And then what I normally do, which I didn't do this time until late in the game, |
| 1:16.7 | which is fine. But I get my harshest critics who have no reason to tell me anything but what |
| 1:22.2 | they think and how I can improve it. So I did that. And I got my friend Tyler Mitchell, |
| 1:26.0 | who I've worked with for many years, |
| 1:28.1 | who started a great company called Impact at any young writers that are interested in getting |
| 1:32.2 | in the business to check it out. He's worked with Brian Grazer. He's written his own movies, |
| 1:36.1 | his own shows, and he's just very good at it. And I showed it to him, and he just gave me some |
| 1:41.4 | very simple things that could quickly help get this |
| 1:44.8 | thing in better shape. But we didn't have an editor. So we got an editor, Ted, today, who's a very |
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