Unlike still photography, shooting and editing short films is more of a process –– typically one that is fraught with anxiety as one reviews the overwhelming volume of disparate bits of film and audio from which an understandable and compelling finished product is to somehow emerge.
Came across two observations from artists describing this predicament and outcome; Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, who wrote:
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
and Poet T.S. Eliot:
We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.