ADR/script escapades

So ADR was recorded at the lovely time of 11 pm- 12:30 am for my film [Thanks, Theatre rehearsals- ugh.]

Anyway, they went really well, I think Stephanie and Matt were really amused and excited with the process and the takes we got were pretty good. I got to officially meet my audio team, and from what we were able to talk about, I'm confident that they'll do a great job on the post-production. I still have to figure out music, though- has anyone gotten anything from Rich about when he'll be in his office to look over music libraries? I think that'd help me a lot in the process.

Other than that, we've already picked scripts and I feel ready to go for auditions next week. My only concern is that I was talking with Stephanie and apparently there aren't many big female roles in the scripts chosen, so she's making it sound like there might be a bit of a draw for me and Andy's script (our protagonist is female). Good thing or bad thing? I guess we'll see!

Last week and this week

I didn't get a chance to post last week because my video was giving me all sorts of trouble. In the end I got it on the server on time and as far as I know, everything is working fine.

As for this week, it is going to be a fairly boring post. I plan on communicating with my audio team and seeing what they think needs to be done audio wise. I would also like to meet with my partner for this project and discuss any preliminary plans.

Like I said, I know this is a pretty boring post, but they will get more exciting as the weeks roll on

That's a wrap... Sort of

Post for Monday Feb. 18...
Well, due to some conflicts with my filming location, I had to turn in my "Cut to Time" about 18 hours after the original due date. I still need to correct some visual things and perfect the credits, but it is ready for any and all audio work. Overall, I think the black, white, and red works in nearly all the shots that it is applied, but I need to fix some of the red bleeding into areas where I didn't want it. I managed to cut the run time to 7:20 without credits. I imagine it will be about 8 minutes from end to end. This was an excellent experience for directing and working with an amazing actress. Lindsey's performance was great, and I hope I can do her justice with the final product. I was able to expirement with some creative shots and techniques. That always makes the filming a little more interesting. I think this film will rely heavily on audio and music, so I'm anxious to see the work done it.

Finally Done

I finally got everything done last night. I seperated the audio and video and dropped it into the server. I couldn't be happier to be done with this project for the most part. This was easily the worst experience I've ever had making a video. I had no fun doing it which is my main concern about doing a video. I didn't like the script. I didn't like having to use a set person to act in it. I didn't like anything about it. Hopefully the next project will be a good time to make like it should be. My fingers are crossed.

As done as done can be...

Like everyone else, my cut-to-time is done. It took forever. I had a good amount of issues reworking the final scene with my reshoots, which took a lot of extra time, and I'm still not completely okay with it. But then again, I don't think I ever completely got into this project. Too much stuff going on, and I didn't feel like I could be completely creative with it, and like I've said before, I'm really more into the production side than being the director.

I'm excited to get a script we get to pick this time around, and I'm excited to work with Andy- I liked his rough cut and I'm interested to see how we can play around with stuff on the second project. I hope that two people from the class working on one film will help making it not so overwhelming. If not, I might flip out, throw the Country A-K rack out on the street, and go work at a Virgin Records store...

Bonne chance!

Cut to time is done! Yay! Things actually went really smoothly with all of it, other than misjudging the time it would take to render. I try not to think about how many hours of my life have been wasted in rendering... But yeah, I'm happy with what we accomplished and I'm just hoping that I will have as much luck with the next project.

C-C-C-Cut it!

Finished the cut to time. It is much tighter and decently shorter than the rough cut. But no way is it going to get under the 7:15 mark. So i'm gonna have to do the final audio mix myself. Which is fine. From my critique i got back it sounded like they were expecting me to want miracles of sound engineering. Which i don't. It's a quiet and tense piece.

I was really happy to see the rough cuts last class. No two directors make the same film.

And here comes the next project. I hope I don't overload this one like i did the last.

Finished Cut To Time

Here I am, waiting for my video to export in the labs. I just thought you might appreciate an exhausted POV. I have made some subtle changes with the split screen effects, like you requested in your notes. It definitely makes more sense to have it in the video more than once. I also experimented with b & w during the door scene. I think it help raise tension. It reflects the main character's frantic thought process. I reshot this scene, as well. The first version was a little too dark. I tried to color correct but it wouldn't turn out. We reshot the scene and added another light on her face. I think that it turned out much better. I am really curious to see what the audio teams are going to do with the sound mix. I left it wide open for them to be as creative as they can be. I am pretty sure I took care of all the notes to correct. A lot the problems with mine was with the exporting of the movie. It didn't come out so well for the rough cut, but I've figured that out now. I have a lot of ADR notes, and sound pacing notes... I will bring this up in class tomorrow.

Cut To Time

Good week for Tattle Tail. I made a ton of very very small fixes and effects that boost the quality of my piece a lot - color correction, special effects, overlays, audio... I am very happy with my cut to time, and think once the audio is finished this will be solid. Post production is my thing, and I went a bit overboard with it... but it shows. The editing is not very linear, however, the story can still be followed and enjoyed.

Another great thing, I heard back from the people at Moby, and I was approved to use three select tracks for my project. I really love his tracks for this, because they're deep and fit well with what's going on.

cut to time

Everything seems to be going smoothly. I hope reshoots (if any) went well for everyone. Thats the only comments for this week. Good luck.

Editing

Finally got filming completed Tuesday.  Got around to editing shortly after that and I'm still working on it right now.  Hopefully the rough cut will be done for Monday and we can get to scheduling re-shoots, if there are any.  I'm sure there will be some. Some of the footage turned out kind of funky because of the snow and the light bouncing all around.  We actually might have to re-film the end and the little bit at the beginning because the snow is now melted and that would completely mess with continuity.  We'll see.

Re-Shoots Finished

We just finished re-shooting a few scenes Saturday afternoon. I think that made six total days of filming. Again, I’ll say scheduling was very difficult, esp. for these re-shoots. It felt like I was getting an inconvenience vibe from my actors this week. Also, trying to find a crew was nearly impossible. I am anxious to start mixing sound, though. A friend of mine in the music department is going to be performing the score. Right now we trying to schedule a night that we can record in the Letterman sound studios. Scheduling is tight – I think Stan had some band recordings going on this past weekend. To be honest, this is probably my favorite part of the production process.