Cut to Time

Not much to say this week. I enjoyed viewing everyone's rough cuts; interesting to see all of the different versions. Now its time to make a few adjustments before handing it over to the audio team. Hope everyone's cut-to-times go smoothly. see everyone Monday.

Christ...

I have to finish editing. Nothing much to say but: it's all okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. Needless to say, I'm trying me very best to stay positive. 

Rough cut

Well, filmed all weekend around work and meetings.  Edited all night. Rough cut is really rough, but gives a decent idea of what the final product will be.  Just for myself I threw it into AE and touched on it with some of the treatment, and it looks awesome.  However, you will not see any of that on the rough cut, just the rough footage cut together.

Rough Cut

We finished filming last Monday shortly after the end of class. Overall the filming went pretty smooth. Because we started to lose time, we are going to have to shoot some final and/or close up type shots during the reshoot week. I finished the rough edit with very few hang ups. The concept I was going for using the black and white and red was hindered slightly. For the rough cut I only applied it to a shot or two to save time. The look was okay, but I was using FCP and I may switch to Color for a more precise look. As of now, I feel like I am on schedule.

Everything is Done... Finally

I'm done shooting now except for one scene that will only take like a minute to shoot. It the beginning shot actually. Haha. The editing went well, though. Unfortunately I'm going to need a lot of ADR done at the end since I got two different cameras with broken wireless mics. I actually did the ultimate no no and used the camera mic because I knew we'd have to go back over it. Oh well. Everything else is good though. I'm happy it's all over. This has been the least favorite project I've ever done. I had no fun making it and I'm glad it's almost in the past. I am going to delete it from my hard drive as soon as we're done with it. I never want to see it again.... All in all a good experience. :)

Rough Cut thoughts

I had wanted to get this cut done earlier than I have, but I will settle with getting it completed on time. I am very curious to see what everyone else has done with the story. I wonder how different and how similar they will be. I'm sure how much I will need to fix for the cut to time. There are a few things that come to mind, but they would be simple quick fixes. One thing that I've noticed is that my film is going to need a lot of creative sound editing. I will leave a detailed list of notes for my sound team on discussion board, like we talked about in class. Music and sound effects will bring this story to life. Some of the scenes seem very bland or boring at the moment, but I know once the sound is tweeked it will add a lot. So far I'm about 75% satisfied with the film. Some of it was rushed, but, considering the circumstances, it has come out fine. I tried a unique style when editing the dialogue between the two characters. I'm very interested to hear people's opinions on it...

Head Cleaners

Mini DV Head Cleaning Tape. Buy one. Price range is about $10 to $20 dollars. For those of you shooting with the Sony PD150s you may have already encountered an instance where a dirty camera has ruined your tape and say five hours of shooting. This happened to me last Tuesday. Fortunately, I was able to regroup everyone this past Friday and reshoot. 90 percent of the time Mary and Co. does an excellent job of preparing the equipment and running a head cleaner through the cameras. However, I’d suggest having your own cleaning tape just to be safe.

Aside from that incident, I felt filming and the first round of editing went very well. I had a great crew each night and the actors were very easy to work with. Both actors even came in for an editing session which was a bit distracting but appreciated. As other people are mentioning, sound is also a huge hole in our film right now. I am in the process of making some notes for the audio crews for FX, ADR, and music.

Moving Along

I finished editing my rough cut tonight. In editing it, I realized there are a few things that we will need to re-shoot, but hopefully it won't be too bad. Overall I was pretty happy with how the rough cut turned out. I know I still have some work to do and need to work more with the audio people when it comes to music, but that is for another week. Now the hope is that I can get people back together for another shoot to finish everything up. Luckily I remember when the last shoot was, so hopefully everyone is available at the same time so we can knock it out of the park.

Style

I had a lot of fun cutting this. I had a ton of footage to play around with, a good amount of free music (working on licensing!), and even had a bit of time to play with color correction. I'm happy with my rough cut, and can't wait to see how it compares to the others. I think we have a unique project, I really do. It needs some work, that's for sure.

Some scenes need ADR pretty bad, others are fine. I really didn't have a chance to go through the timeline and make everything pretty, but that's kind of the plan for this week... Making things pretty and perfect. I may even toy around with sky-replacement and Apple Color a bit on this -- I wish the footage were HD, but I guess I can go ahead and give this a film look rather than a DV look to replenish that.