"Scissors"

Episode 4 is going to include quite a bit of footage of two interviews I did: one with my mother and one with my grandmother. Since I knew my interviewees very well [grin], I thought all of the aspects of filming and editing would be easier. Wrong! Knowing your subjects intimately makes the whole process harder! Because I know them so well, I was looking more closely for a certain kinds of answers, stories told ways I had heard them before, and an ease in front of the camera. I didn't get what I expected at all. Sometimes I think that was good, I heard some stories I had never heard told before. Sometimes I wish there was a way I could just pop in and tell the *best* details that Mom or Grandma left out of their descriptions. But just like all the other interviews on Knitterati, these women will speak for themselves.

Now that I'm into the thick of rough cutting the footage I find myself faced with another minor frustration: what to cut. I love these women so much and I think everything they told me was so important. But what is going to be most relevant and interesting to someone outside of our family? Will they understand? The hardest cut to delete was the final thing my Mom said on camera "I'm proud of you." In my family you only say things like that when you mean them. I treasure that moment, but it doesn't fit here in Episode 4 and so it now lays on the proverbial cutting room floor.

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