Week 12 - Last Entry.
Hours: 1 - 2
I'm not sure how the project is going. Kim gave me a call on the weekend to ask about one of the other audio tracks I had included with the voice-over cd. It was music that was composed by my friend Roz, she had given it for me to listen both just for me to keep up with her music endeavours and for a bit of 'critique'.
Kim was thinking about using one of the songs - but I suggested getting the one that Kall had found on freeplaymusic.com - called Lone (I think) coz that was more fitting in with what I had in mind, but I said to him that if he thought that it sounded good, to just simply give it a go.
I asked if there was anything else I could help him on - coz he said that he was finding it a bit difficult, but he said that it was simply timeconsuming coz he had to clean up the footage as well as slog through all of it to find the one he was looking for before he could arrange it. He said that it was okay and that he was doing alright.
I dropped the butterfly off to Kall's on Saturday with instructions on how to transfer the tiff files into After Effects so that it simply read the first file but automatically knew how to and where to find the other files and play it in sequence as an animation without having to load every single TIFF file. And also to import with alpha-channels, etc so that it became transparent and to ensure that the import rate was set as the same as PAL settings - 25 frames, because if not, we'll end up with less footage than before and also it would mess with the animation of the butterfly - which I mentioned before.
So.
Last Entry.
Maybe 13 weeks is a bit much for a short film in retrospect.
The documentation and a lot of the paperwork we focused on early on probably did set us back a bit, I'll grant. Kall said that she wished we didn't have to do the documetation coz a lot of it wasn't quite relevant - but I said that well, they have to have something to mark us on and to ensure that we're keeping on track as well as to give a fair kind of assessment.
I thought we wouldn't need so long - but I guess I didn't take into consideration personnel issues, and scheduling stuff as well as weather, etc.
Then again having it a year long wouldn't be as good anyway due to the nature of the project being majority outdoors and the weather being what it is.
It's hard I think to do a film when we all have so many other things to do. I think we would have been able to succeed (not that we haven't anyway) better had we the time to really devote to it, we wouldn't feel as stressed and short-changed for time. It was also very hard to have actors who are friends and who have other dedications to concentrate on - it's hard not being able to have them on call (as Kim mentioned in his presentation) when we wanted them and thus we had to work according to their schedule. Melinda (the main actor) was great, she made as much time as she could for us, but it was hard. :)
Still, I think we'll have done something we can be proud of.
We conquered what was from the start a very hard narrative to transfer and properly evoke. I think we did alright with the limited equipment (LIGHTING!) that we had. I don't know if I'll get to see the final product before this last entry, but I'll end it here for now.
I'm not sure how the project is going. Kim gave me a call on the weekend to ask about one of the other audio tracks I had included with the voice-over cd. It was music that was composed by my friend Roz, she had given it for me to listen both just for me to keep up with her music endeavours and for a bit of 'critique'.
Kim was thinking about using one of the songs - but I suggested getting the one that Kall had found on freeplaymusic.com - called Lone (I think) coz that was more fitting in with what I had in mind, but I said to him that if he thought that it sounded good, to just simply give it a go.
I asked if there was anything else I could help him on - coz he said that he was finding it a bit difficult, but he said that it was simply timeconsuming coz he had to clean up the footage as well as slog through all of it to find the one he was looking for before he could arrange it. He said that it was okay and that he was doing alright.
I dropped the butterfly off to Kall's on Saturday with instructions on how to transfer the tiff files into After Effects so that it simply read the first file but automatically knew how to and where to find the other files and play it in sequence as an animation without having to load every single TIFF file. And also to import with alpha-channels, etc so that it became transparent and to ensure that the import rate was set as the same as PAL settings - 25 frames, because if not, we'll end up with less footage than before and also it would mess with the animation of the butterfly - which I mentioned before.
So.
Last Entry.
Maybe 13 weeks is a bit much for a short film in retrospect.
The documentation and a lot of the paperwork we focused on early on probably did set us back a bit, I'll grant. Kall said that she wished we didn't have to do the documetation coz a lot of it wasn't quite relevant - but I said that well, they have to have something to mark us on and to ensure that we're keeping on track as well as to give a fair kind of assessment.
I thought we wouldn't need so long - but I guess I didn't take into consideration personnel issues, and scheduling stuff as well as weather, etc.
Then again having it a year long wouldn't be as good anyway due to the nature of the project being majority outdoors and the weather being what it is.
It's hard I think to do a film when we all have so many other things to do. I think we would have been able to succeed (not that we haven't anyway) better had we the time to really devote to it, we wouldn't feel as stressed and short-changed for time. It was also very hard to have actors who are friends and who have other dedications to concentrate on - it's hard not being able to have them on call (as Kim mentioned in his presentation) when we wanted them and thus we had to work according to their schedule. Melinda (the main actor) was great, she made as much time as she could for us, but it was hard. :)
Still, I think we'll have done something we can be proud of.
We conquered what was from the start a very hard narrative to transfer and properly evoke. I think we did alright with the limited equipment (LIGHTING!) that we had. I don't know if I'll get to see the final product before this last entry, but I'll end it here for now.
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