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.