Week 10 - Production Shoot: Night Scenes.

Hours: 6-7 hours.

Well.
I take it back about how well we worked.

I wasn't too pleased with the time that was wasted with the night shoot. Granted, we had a few problems with lighting, and Kall wasn't feeling well that day, but I had said to her that we should work as fast and efficiently as possible, that way she gets an early night.

It didn't quite work out.

I suppose that's the way it is when you haven't seen your partner for 3 weeks because he's been sick and with friends around it doesn't help either.
I just thought there was too much mucking about. No disrespect to Kall, and I think she's a lovely girl, but it reached the point where even the actor, Melinda was telling her to focus.

And with very few weeks left - we couldn't afford to muck around.

Personally, I felt like I was simply a stage hand, running around and setting up for her and then everyone just sat there and waited.
She was feeling very sick as the night wore on - and I kept asking if she wanted to switch over and she finally gave up at around 11, which was good, because she really didn't feel well.

I managed a bit more shooting - we tried to emulate the bush as best as we can while being in the streets of surburbia, but it was very dark and that got me thinking that if it is this dark on film now, with street lights, garage and house lights going - how much darker is it going to be out in the bush?

All of us were pretty tired by then so we didn't do too much more before we called it a night.

Today, Kall gave me a call.
She's a bit worried about the footage and she thinks that we won't have enough.
I think she's a bit of a perfectionist :) and has a bit too high of expectation when it comes to VB. We are only a student amateur film...:)
Maybe in a way we all do - but I haven't seen the footage yet, so I don't know.
She doesn't think it looks good - she tried to do some editing before and found that she couldn't and that she needed something to work with.

I think she has changed her tune about the voice over though...?
I just listened to it before - and for a draft, it's pretty good. I'm quite pleased about it. I doubt we really have to rerecord it, so it should be fine. I'm glad for her 'home studio'!
My only fear is that becaus she has made it an audio cd - I can't access the data. But I'll see if I can 'rip' it. Or get someone to figure it out. Otherwise I might go into the city and drop in on Friday and pick up the actual wav/mp3 file.
It's quite fantastic - I'm quite pleased... and I think we should insert some wind sounds and just general environmental sounds to add something further - and it might be able to function without a musical score... though I think we should have one - even though we no longer have the time to make one, I think... not by week 13 anyway.

She's doing some filming tomorrow - I won't be able to make it since I'm working and I don't think the boys can. She didn't seem to fussed about it and I think in a way she almost prefered it. I suggested that she try filming just before it got dark (dusk time) which might be better seeing as everything comes out darker on film - so we'd have the advantage of a bit more natural light while also emulating the dark.

Tuesday I'm lugging my computer over to Kall's and we're going to edit, work on DVD interface and also presentation.
Here's hoping everything goes okay.
Everything seems to be piling up but I think it either hasn't sunk it yet - or it has and I'm trying to attain a positive outlook...