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How does one balance their wellbeing while also working 16 hours a day? How do you sift through 300 hours of documentary film footage in an efficient manner? What type of people skills and character traits are necessary if you are thinking of becoming an editor?\n\nIn today\u2019s episode, No Film School\u2019s GG Hawkins, Yaro Altunin and Editor Meredith Rathiel Perry\ndiscuss:\n\nThe film, Plan C, and what it was like to create such a timely documentary\n\nWorking remotely from a 28 acre farm in Washington\n\nWhy Meredith was excited to work on this particular documentary\n\nFeeling retraumatized over and over again when editing documentaries\xa0\n\nWhat is was like to manage 300 hours of footage\n\nCool tricks for keyboard shortcuts\n\nWhy ripple deleting is so satisfying\n\nHelping directors through the birthing process of their films\n\nWhat really makes you a good editor\n\nRemembering to be excited about the things that are working\n\n\n\nMemorable Quotes\n\n\u201cYou\u2019ve been working 16 hour days for a month and you\u2019re like \u2018what am I doing with my life, I am so tired.\u2019\u201d [16:02]\n\n\u201cWith docs you are shaping the story whereas a narrative has a script.\u201d [29:18]\n\n\u201cI am a really visual screenwriter. I can see what I\u2019m writing.\u201d [30:40]\n\n\n\n\nResources:\nPlan C\n\n\n\nFind No Film School everywhere:\nOn the Web\nhttps://nofilmschool.com/\n\nFacebook\xa0\nhttps://www.facebook.com/nofilmschool\n\nTwitter\xa0\nhttps://twitter.com/nofilmschool\n\nYouTube\xa0\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/nofilmschool\n\nInstagram\nhttps://www.instagram.com/nofilmschool\n\nSend us an email with questions or feedback: podcast@nofilmschool.com!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices