Well, it’s finally done. The promotional trailer for my film project Secret of the Crystal Skulls has been completed. It took about three times longer to edit than my wildest guestimate.
The editing process was a strange, circuitous journey over a period of six months, with four different editors, before it’s completion a few days before Christmas. Very strange things happened that caused me to start almost from the beginning each time: editors with failing video cards, editors with health problems, editors with houses burning down.
Some people began to wonder if I was jinxed, cursed or hexed. Was it the CRYSTAL SKULLS??? Even I began to wonder what in the world was happening. In hindsight, I am able to see some purpose and logic in that experience.
I liken it to something I was once told by a caretaker of an ancient crystal skull. She described to me some of the people who worked with the crystal skulls in ancient times. They were called ‘smoothers’. They would spend months and probably years smoothing a crystal skull, using only silicon-crystal sand and their hands. However, they were not only shaping or smoothing the skull, they were also uploading sacred and often secret information into the crystal, while they were smoothing. Perhaps they were in a trance state, praying or chanting as they worked day after day, week after week, year after year.
Looking back at the editing process, I realize that I, too, refined and refined the trailer, working with it over and over and over again, over a long period of time. Each editor added a little something to the final creation, however, I was constantly required to come back to my original vision and work it and work it, watching it slowly take shape until it was ready to be complete.
Please have a look at the trailer. See any tool marks?
Photo credit: Kicka Witte
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January 22nd, 2010 at 11:43 pm
I love this and I hope that I can learn more about the crystal skull’s. I have alway’s admired them and how mysterious they are, and I think they will save the world someday!