Eran and his team have been busy editing the raw footage since his return from Israel. We wanted to take a moment to provide a behind-the-scenes look at what has been happening recently.
The editing process is divided into two different stages. In the first stage, student Emilie Zuckerman completed the transcript of about 50 hours of shot footage. Eran then selected and structured the transcribed material. Once Eran was finished he sent it onto the film's assistant editor Andrei Litvinov. The second and final edit will be completed by Shashwati Talukdar. Shashwati, is a former graduate student and was the editor of "Patricia Baltimore". Shashwati, who is flying in from Taiwan at the beginning of October, will take the rough cut completed by Andrei and Eran and fine edit it. Eran and Andrei will then supervise the sound mix and the preparation for the creation of the broadcast quality final version.
At this point, the team has completed the 15 minute exposition and the chapters describing Jon's collapse in Israel which included: the army period before getting sick and Jon's AWAL from the army, crying for help in the Old City of Jerusalem, the trip to the mental institution,meeting his father in a Mental institution and flying back to the USA.
In progress are the illness up-and-downs and its impact on the family, juxtaposed with experiences of other caregivers and consumers, as recorded in the five community workshop sessions. As we travel through our son's case we touch on bigger issues of reality and Illusion in the private and public sphere.
Eran Preis
Caroline Guigar
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