I swear.

Between school and bedtime 6 year-olds don't have the time man. Kindergardeners really need to get their stuff together.

Well, we're right in the middle of everything. We won't have a rough cut to show. There's just not enough shot for a cohesive story. We didn't get to shoot over the weekend because of Easter. We have the middle.

I really don't like pushing everything back, but what can you do? I just don't want the Cut-to-time to be a rough cut.

Soundtrack I'm in talks with an Music Engineering Technology student to do the music for this piece and redo the music for the first.

All and all this is a lot of fun. Just wish people were being paid so i wouldn't feel bad about being so demanding.

-Andy

Lucky Lucky, You're So Lucky

Just finished the rough cut of Lucky. Oh, and just finished shooting it today too. 7am call time is the best! We worked hard, and got some great results. And editing was a breeze. Go key commands.

Everything is pretty good except NONE of the audio for the car-mount shots works. It's all wind. That was a stupid mistake. Really stupid. I'm good at reading lips though, so I think we'll be okay for ADR. We just may need to take our time on it.

Cheers.

We'll See.

Things appear to be going okay. I feel sort of bad for the other teams and all their actor problems... other than Stevie going home this weekend, we really haven't had issues actor-wise. The hardest part, I think, will be this next week, because we still have a good amount of stuff we need to shoot for cut-to-time, so scheduling and getting kickass footage is key.

We also got our audio teams... unfortunately we don't have my team from the last film (they were a lot of fun), but everyone's stuff sounded pretty good last time so as long as there's good communication we'll be fine, but Kelly's in our audio team so I'm not concerned 'cause he understands our side of things.

Murphy's Law

Everything that can go wrong is happening. I can't schedule my actors at all. I even set up a meeting that all 3 said they'd be at and only one showed up. We accomplished nothing but realizing what I already realized. 2 of my actors are in the play into the woods and will be tied up with rehearsal and the actual performances all week. My other actor won't work after midnight so I can't schedule it after they're done rehearsing and performing, either. My only hope is that Dwnadra has mecry on me and let's me get new, outside actors to play the roles. I don't know why they'd sign up for the movie if they knew they wouldn't be able to do it. It seems hard to believe that they would really think they could handle all that work, not to mention homework on top of it. Hopefully everything will work out and I'll just have to do it somehow whether it's with the actors or not. I know I've said it before but it's just been a hassle having to deal with the acting department in this class. It's been way more dificult than it has to be and most devastating of all, no fun whatsoever. That's the only thing I've ever wanted from making videos and these two movies are the first I've ever done that weren't a total blast. In fact, they've been the total opposite.

Frustrations

So... I would generally consider myself a compassionate, patient, and caring person... but scheduling 9 actors and 5 locations is stretching me to my limits. After 3 or 4 (or 5, I've really lost count) reschedulings I really don't think I can compassionately handle any more scheduling conflicts. I agree with Kelly and Jeff... It is truly so incredibly hard to be working with people who seemed to prioritize absolutely everything over what you're trying to accomplish. Unfortunately we have an incredibly talented cast, which means that they are all involved in other plays/projects and also, because of their talent, I am not willing to recast. I just hope and pray that our filming goes well and there is absolutely no need for reshoots.

Sigh.

impressed

so after watching the final cuts of all of project 1, I am impressed on how everyone's ideas came out in the end. I hope project 2 goes just as well. Al and I are running into some snags with scheduling. Some people actually celebrate Easter apparently. I'm just joking, I think we can still pull off our shoot this week, as long as no major problems occur.

So here I am sitting in class and I just realized I hadn't posted.

With 9 actors and 4 locations our scheduling has been a little insane and our main actor having tooth issues has only made things more complicated... I am still excited though about what I hope will come out of this project. It truly is an awesome script and an amazing cast so I feel like it's really going to be a film that we can all be proud of... if we're able to work out scheduling that is.