A musician in Prague made a documentary short about a male gigolo entirely alone, directing, editing, and color-grading it himself. He compares editing to composing music with MIDI tracks, where each video layer is an instrument that needs arranging into one cohesive piece.
How'd you come up with this cape concept, by the way? This video is about the many reincarnations of a male gigolo. I start off with a documentary, and this guy is like this kind of documentary guy, and he's talking about the history of prostitution, and he's like, basically, the first prostitute was not a girl, but it was a guy. And then he starts off, and we go to like this prehistoric time period. Wait, so you don't have an editor helping you out? I don't have an editor. Yeah, man, so I'm just like, yeah, I'm doing the color grading on this. Video cave scene. Yeah, so this is where we started. It's just, this one's pretty simple. I just looked at it like music because, I mean, it's linear. Like, look, it's just linear. So it's just like when you're composing MIDI. So you got your tracks and you got your stuff here. So this, I look at this as like music. These are the different tracks and I'm trying to just piece together the right composition.
