Well, That's that.

The film is basically done(aka I'm done with it). I've finished sound designing and mixing everything, got the music in place. Color corrected it, and oh man, lemme tell you. Things look spankin'. The screening is tomorrow, so we'll see how that all goes about. Film festivals soon...maybe. Perhaps just a few here and there, not quite sure yet.

I'll see what I can show off to everyone until then, though. Good luck with your stuff. It's been a long and craaaaaaaazy ride.

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

It looks as if the unspeakable has happened. A few of my files have become corrupt! I'm sitting here biting my nails a little bit, but don't worry, I'm not completley stupid. I have backups, which I'll be getting tomorrow to reconnect my media and make everything all well again. Until then I made a pull sheet and I'm going to be pulling sound effects all today.

For the mean time though, I have a short trailer up on youtube. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu9F6ZO7U5M

Enjoy!

Production Stills, Finally...

Here you go guys, check it out.


Setting up an intense crane shot.


Apparently this is how I direct.






What's in the bag? No one knows.


1st AC'ing it up.


Sweet.


Setting up for one of my favorite shots. Believe me, it was sweet.

That's all, I'll keep you updated as things happen.

Voice Over, My Only Friend.

Oh my gooooooodness.

I threw in like 5 clips of some voice over today and it's like I have a totally different film. The ending is very very happy now, Johnathan and Grace's relationship is very clear, and where there needs to be emotional beats, there are emotional beats. It's pretty sweet. I'm shooting title sequences sometime this week, so I'll keep you guys updated on that and show you how things turn out.

Other than that I just found out that I have a bunch of production stills on my camera. I just had it around the set, but never really took photos myself. Funny how the photos just sorta took themselves.

Anyways, keep an eye out for those. I'll hopefully post them tomorrow or maybe even tonight.

Rought Cut Done....Progress is Made?

To answer that question. Yes. Progress has been made. I've found someone to score the film and we're just working on the rough cut of the film now. Suggestions have been made and changes are happening.

If any of you have seen the film Election, you'll notice we'll end up doing something much similar with their freeze frame voice overs. We recorded some of the voice overs today with Kristin and should be laying them down tomorrow. The film is currently 8:31 seconds, but there are still some more things that need to be shot and more things that needed to be added in. So the final running time is still up in the air.

I don't have much more to say, we're shooting the pick-ups soon and I'm realizing that I still haven't looked at the production stills we shot. I should probably get on that so I can show everyone something....

Principal Photography Has Wrapped! Woo!

So, today is tuesday. We finished shooting on monday and things just went wonderfully. I couldn't have asked for better anything. The acting was superb, all the shots went off great, and even when we had to improvise it still turned out working much better than I had hoped. I have a few stills to show you guys, just so you're sure something is actually being done. Here you go:





Basically, I'm starting on editing tomorrow or the next day. I've been organizing my clips and readying myself for the past few days, so soon. I'm expecting a late august time for finishing everything. We will soon see...

Production Begins Tomorrow...

Crap.


I am terrified. But a little bit of pre-shoot jitters never hurt anyone. I'm running around today doing errands for all the little things I have yet to do. Redoing shot lists/shooting schedules, getting all the props together, making sure everyone knows where to be and when. Fun things like that. I'll try and get somebody to shoot a bunch of production stills so you can all take a look into what exactly happened.

Other than that though, don't expect a post for a little while. I'll be too busy stressing myself out.

Voice Over or No Voice Over?

I've been battling this dilemma for close to a week now and finally got the time to try each of them out. I was thinking about opening the film with some voice over from Grace and then ending it with her saying that she's been writing her testimony for the student court this whole time. I thought it could be kinda cool, but it's a bit difficult to write. This is like anything else of course, but I think it could actually work. It's nice too because I feel like it gives the film a whole new feel, but I don't really need to add any new shots for it, which is always a nice thing.

I'll update the page with some new drafts, as it has been a while.

I'll just give everyone some broad updates.

-All major and minor roles have been cast.
-Wardrobe is finished for the most part, which is something I've been working on heavily for the past little while.
-All pre-production is done.

I'm pretty much ready to shoot, but of course, sometimes you just have to wait. I'm only at 35 shots as of now though, which is pretty good. So far the shooting schedule is broken up into two half days outside and one full day inside.

I'll post more later, but I'm on a pretty wonky computer right now, which is making things difficult.

See ya.