How ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Editor Negotiates Creativity and Higher Pay
“No matter how much pre-planning you do, it’s always going to change in the edit.”
I Saw the TV Glow
As an up-and-coming editor, working on low-budget projects is normal when you’re first starting out and getting your fingers wet on some cuts. Once you get a little experience under your belt, there comes a time when you have to start advocating for yourself so that you can get paid more. The “something is better than nothing mindset” can only serve you for so long, before you start to burn out.
In today’s episode, No Film School’s GG Hawkins and editor Sofi Marshall discuss:
- Falling in love with editing in high school
- What the indie film scene is like in New York
- How to editors can make themselves more visible and less excluded
- What it’s like to watch a Sundance premiere of a film you worked on
- Landing the editing role on I Saw the TV Glow
- What it was like to work on two different films at the same time
- Sofi’s favorite tools in Adobe Premiere
- Cutting the entire film remotely
- Taking on too many low-budget projects at the start of her career
- Knowing when to ask for more pay
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This episode of The No Film School Podcast was produced by GG Hawkins.
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