I finished editing The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart last week. Six months of cutting with two of the best editors, Deb Peart and Dany Cooper. 

An incredible amount of footage to work through. All up, we shot (including pick-ups) for 108 days. According to our Assistant Editor ‘Chappers’, we shot 183 hours, 31 minutes, 52 seconds and 01 frame of footage. 6347 separate shots. Now all that is reduced down to 7 x 1-hour episodes! A huge process with an incredibly collaborative team. 

Although I can think of no better way to spend a Melbourne Winter than working with and creating with friends in an edit suite, it’s good to be ‘out’. There is such a huge sense of relief when locking a cut; regardless of how finished it feels, a considerable weight lifts. 

This edit (this project), has been all-consuming, all of my creative energy has been focused on the edit with very little room for anything other than ‘the show’. Everything else, including my photography practice, has dropped away.

But the other day, I took my camera out for a walk and took some photos, just for fun, the way it should be, and it felt so great, like a breath of very clean and fresh air.

Another couple of months of sound and colour grading and Lost Flowers will be complete. So looking forward to getting it out there!