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<\/a><\/p>\nWith so much footage at their fingertips, the editing team functioned partly like
a feature editorial crew and partly like a documentary unit. While some focused on the narrative elements of \u201cF1,\u201d others combed through hours of B-roll, marking any clips that could be of use. This made Mirrione\u2019s job easier down the road, as he was able to click directly onto clips that could potentially suit his editorial needs for a given scene. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a single time that I wanted something that I wasn\u2019t able to ultimately find,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Stephen Mirrione (editor of \u201cF1\u201d) photographed for TheWrap by SMALLZ + RASKIND<\/p>\n
Like much of \u201cF1\u2019s\u201d crew, the Oscar-winning editor and Formula One novice cited the doc series \u201cDrive to Survive\u201d as a definitive text of Formula One filmmaking. He did, however, try not to let the series guide him too heavily. \u201cI just wanted to be able to do my thing, respond to the material and not get in my head too much about \u2018Am I following them too much or not?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Though Mirrione learned a lot about this world, he used his unfamiliarity with the sport as a superpower while assembling the edit. Kosinski and company wanted the film to appeal to aficionados and a wider audience, so as he cut together various racing sequences, he asked himself a critical question: Do I understand what\u2019s going on? \u201cIf there\u2019s something that\u2019s confusing me, I know \u2018OK, I\u2019ve got to find out what that thing means, what it is and how we can make sure an audience will understand it,\u2019\u201d Mirrione said. \u201cIt is incredibly complicated, and so, for us, (it was important to) make sure that you understood enough to feel \u2018OK, the team is doing well or they\u2019re doing poorly,\u2019 but not to go so far with it that it becomes overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Due to the shooting schedule, which was built around a series of actual Formula One races, the editor noticed a bit of synchronicity between his crew\u2019s assembly and the fictional team at the film\u2019s center. \u201cWe were putting the races together kind of in the order of the season, which was also in the order that they happened in the movie,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I think comes across subliminally is that there\u2019s a parallel between the way the team is getting better and working better together, and the way we were getting better and better as a filmmaking crew.\u201d<\/p>\n
This story first ran in the\u00a0Below-the-Line\u00a0issue of TheWrap\u2019s awards magazine.\u00a0Read more from the issue here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joseph Kosinski and his \u201cF1\u201d department heads photographed for TheWrap by SMALLZ + RASKIND<\/p>\n The post \u2018F1\u2019 Filmed 5,000 Hours of Footage Before Editor Stephen Mirrione Got to Work: \u2018I Was Really Spoiled\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five thousand hours of footage. That\u2019s the rough estimate of what editor Stephen Mirrione faced when he and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82,137935],"class_list":["post-308400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-stephen-mirrione"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Joseph](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3e66886fb8e19a5f6233aef4cc61cee5.jpeg\"\/)
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