I'm at work right now, busy as ever blog blog blog. The only phone call that I've answered for Best Buy today was an automated message telling me about luxury suites in the Fiji islands. Call now and save.
Shannon will do the first cut of the film sometime this weekend. Soon after she finishes, I'll take the reigns. I'm hoping to bring a cut into class this Wednesday, but that's lofty because I have a mid-term in French on Tuesday.
Speaking of French, I'm so glad it's a requirement for my FILM major because, honestly, no class has better prepared me to make a parody orientation video than French II. And if you think I'm joking, next time you have to make a film try translating "I went to the movie theater, and then I watched a movie." Don't forget to use passé composé instead of imparfait because you're describing a series of events and not a habitual action, and also remember to conjugate "I went" with être instead of avoir, because it falls under the exception conjugation rules, but tranlsate "I watched" with avoir, because it's not an exception. "Je suis allé au cinéma, après quoi j'ai regardé un film" works just nicely. I used the phrase, "après quoi" because that means, "and then..." or "after that." "Alors" or "ensuite" could probably work, too, though I’m not positive.
I started capturing dailies yesterday evening around 7pm, ended my session around 3am, and I still have a full tape to log and capture. Okay, so taking a dinner break with Shannon (the rough-cutter) and David (the writer) last night didn't help me. And also taking a LOST break probably wasn't the most time efficient idea (though last night's episode was far superior to the week previous -- Phil, you were right). And I do try and only take breaks while footage is actually capturing, and yes, I do mark ins and outs and then batch capture. I find that I save lots more hard drive space than just doing a "capture now" because I don't log the times when I told Cris to roll camera and didn't call action for ten minutes what was I thinking I have no idea don't ask me. Also, capture now tends to cause problems when it reaches the end of the tape.
I also like batch capture because I can watch The X-Files in the next room on DVD. Scully just found out she may have a child, but, if I remember correctly, don't worry, I think it’s just a clone baby.
I'll be completely honest -- I absolutely loved every second of filming my Directing III. And while I love being a director, I hate being the only person who's throwing out ideas. It’s way too egotistical for me to think that I'm the only one with good ideas. So, I encourage people to throw out alternate takes if they so feel inspired. Of course that concept lends itself to comedy more so than drama.
In the following clip, Autumn Winters (played by the lovely Kim Riley) tells us that there are many types of hostile roommate interactions.
Shannon will do the first cut of the film sometime this weekend. Soon after she finishes, I'll take the reigns. I'm hoping to bring a cut into class this Wednesday, but that's lofty because I have a mid-term in French on Tuesday.
Speaking of French, I'm so glad it's a requirement for my FILM major because, honestly, no class has better prepared me to make a parody orientation video than French II. And if you think I'm joking, next time you have to make a film try translating "I went to the movie theater, and then I watched a movie." Don't forget to use passé composé instead of imparfait because you're describing a series of events and not a habitual action, and also remember to conjugate "I went" with être instead of avoir, because it falls under the exception conjugation rules, but tranlsate "I watched" with avoir, because it's not an exception. "Je suis allé au cinéma, après quoi j'ai regardé un film" works just nicely. I used the phrase, "après quoi" because that means, "and then..." or "after that." "Alors" or "ensuite" could probably work, too, though I’m not positive.
I started capturing dailies yesterday evening around 7pm, ended my session around 3am, and I still have a full tape to log and capture. Okay, so taking a dinner break with Shannon (the rough-cutter) and David (the writer) last night didn't help me. And also taking a LOST break probably wasn't the most time efficient idea (though last night's episode was far superior to the week previous -- Phil, you were right). And I do try and only take breaks while footage is actually capturing, and yes, I do mark ins and outs and then batch capture. I find that I save lots more hard drive space than just doing a "capture now" because I don't log the times when I told Cris to roll camera and didn't call action for ten minutes what was I thinking I have no idea don't ask me. Also, capture now tends to cause problems when it reaches the end of the tape.
I also like batch capture because I can watch The X-Files in the next room on DVD. Scully just found out she may have a child, but, if I remember correctly, don't worry, I think it’s just a clone baby.
I'll be completely honest -- I absolutely loved every second of filming my Directing III. And while I love being a director, I hate being the only person who's throwing out ideas. It’s way too egotistical for me to think that I'm the only one with good ideas. So, I encourage people to throw out alternate takes if they so feel inspired. Of course that concept lends itself to comedy more so than drama.
In the following clip, Autumn Winters (played by the lovely Kim Riley) tells us that there are many types of hostile roommate interactions.
I still have to record voiceover segments for Autumn sometime soon. I could have just had her read them on set, but I really wanted to have a radical change in quality for the voiceover, which is very characterisitc of these types of videos.
3 comments:
I can't wait to see the final cut.
I can tell it's going to be really wild and funny!
The Janine who's Jesse's mom
Kim is great as the narrator! Dazzling smile :-)
Christine Padovan ('Jennifer'
hey, how's the editing process going?
let me know when your schedule rearranges itself to allow for the ADR...
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