Editor's Note

Film is a powerful medium and 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝑴𝒚 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 is my ode to that power. The unique amalgamation of all forms of art that contributes to making any film convey a feeling to the audiences is truly beautiful to see, and I am glad to witness it firsthand with a team of equally driven and passionate filmmakers.

This process truly served as a reminder of all the things that led me to start pursuing my interest in filmmaking and film editing during my junior year of engineering back in 2020.

Editing-wise, one of my major areas of focus was that the film should be cut in a way that incites horror without any sort of sound effects or sound design. Cuts should be what creates fear in the audience's mind. Therefore, I often found myself cutting in complete silence, a method that has worked for me in the past as well. Secondly, what excited me the most about this project was the opportunity to use sound as a major medium to amplify emotions throughout the film. I spent the months before the shooting, especially during my winter break in India, to understand what the film was trying to say at a deeper level and how I could use editing and sound to convey it better. I made a lot of Foley Sound Effects too that did manage to make their way into the final cut. Another thing that I did that helped me was that I made a huge graph of every beat in the film and assigned a numeric value to them based on the amount of tension that beat holds. This proved to be of immense help to me as I could visually see what my cutting approach should be at each point in the film.