The Saga Continues

Okay, I'm back.

Well, it's been kinda quiet on my end and I should have been yelling and screaming. I've got some stuff I want to post about filmmaking in general. Some really great links for people interested in the biz. Lots of really useful stuff.

Anyhow, I'm currently sitting on my Powerbook dumping in footage from "Drunks". I'm also working on editing Hope & Theo's last film. It's interesting just being the editor. But I know I have to stay true to the vision that Hope and Theo have for this film. Not to mention I have to record my own voice over. I'm looking forward to it.

Tomorrow, we continue with the "Drunks" shooting. We don't have much time, so I have to make sure when I show up to the set, I have a tight shot list. To compound problems, Greg, who stepped from behind the camera to fill in for an actor we lost, has some sensitive time constraints that we must work around. It might even require us to shoot without him, which means I'll have to figure out how to shoot around him.

Setting up and getting ready.

This will be the first time I edit on a laptop. I kind of like that idea since I can carry it around with me and edit whenever I like. It does leave a lot to be desired in the way that I don't have a really great, static place like my iMac's. Still, this Powerbook is top of the line and suped up, compliments of my brother.

We'll only have one more day of shooting for the finale of "Drunks". The dreaded external sequence. We had originally shot a bunch of footage for that and a lot of it turned out to look quite bad. It was just lack of planning that started on the day we couldn't get in the bar. I wasn't ready for that and I should have been. I had spoken to Mike, the producer-slash-actor, about reshooting everything. And we even started to do it. I had hoped that we could keep a few of the shots we had in the can, but now it appears we'll have to reshoot, no matter what. Michael, Mike's son, was forced to cut his hair in order to play football. He had this full head of curly hair that really gave him a fun, playful look. I haven't seen him yet, but Mike was kind of aggravated that he had to shave his head, considering he just spend some serious cash on headshots for the kid.

I'm really excited about tomorrow and grabbing the rest of this footage will put us closer to finishing this. Or at least to approach the editing process. We've been running the interior, bar sequences without music, so I'm also looking forward to scoring the film.

And the year isn't even over yet.

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