“From Pocket to Projector: Discover How Jamie Grefe Filmed Two Movies on His Phone!”
Ashley
I’ll say so let’s talk about that a little bit in terms of the actual production the post production do you have a background in editing have you ever go to film school did you had to get do some editing there how do you even know how to do editing.
Jamie Grefe
Yeah, I mean, it’s just like, you know, you pick it up. So, like years ago, when I used to live in Japan, I used to shoot little things for fun, and I would put them together. And at that time, I was just playing with iMovie. But I mean, the principles are still there, right? Assembling something. And even if you go back to my childhood using, you know, VHS and kind of editing things on like a little camcorder, like I’ve done it actually, like, it’s probably somewhere within my muscle memory, that it’s just there. So now I can put something together on a timeline. And I can go, okay, this fits together nicely, you know, and I’ve worked in like tech adjacent positions before, where they’re like, do you know Adobe? And I’m like, oh, yeah, I guess so. And then I would do something in Premiere. And I just realized it’s a lot of drag and drop chops layer. It’s a lot of fun. I like it. I like playing with editing software. I actually really enjoy the editing process, because that’s the chance where you can take this footage. And you can make a movie. Like, it’s pretty fascinating. You know, it’s as fascinating as a screenwriting project, the screenwriter sits down, and it’s all in the imagination. And then you direct it. And it’s just like, blah, it’s like a performance, right? But then when you sit down and edit, you have this chance to see the footage as it was shot. And now you can really put it together. And again, I’m not using visual effects programs or anything like that. I’m very basic, very basic editor, but movies have been made for hundreds of years with just simple cuts. So, I like that the style of filmmaking that’s like the cut tells the story. So if I have a bunch of shots, and they’re all different, there’s going to be a story there in the audience’s mind. So, I don’t need to work with tons of visual effects or anything like that. So my limitations are my strength in some
