Spreading the pain around

As you know, the main reason why it's taken me so long to finish the movie is that I kept shooting and reshooting things. This is not a matter of perfectionism but derives from the fact that for certain sections of the video I had no idea what I was doing. So I shot the bird scene four different times and shot about 20 times as much workroom footage as I need. The ingenuity of my process is that it enables someone to take a project that they care about it and shape and refine it until (to some extent) it starts to function properly. The other advantage is that it's profoundly instructive. You learn a lot because you're constantly running into—and resolving— extremely difficult problems, sometimes alone, often with the help of others. The (dis?) ingenuity of my process is that it's slow. Plus, it forces others to play along and participate in a seemingly never-ending process.