"PAIRED"- A Fifth Click Film

Woohoo! Woke up around 10, worked for about 4 hours on VFX straight... and I'm done! With the fx that is. I had about 6 compositing shots I had to do and they are complete. I worked with AE for a year or so before switching to FCP, so I was quite suprised with how difficult the masks work. I had started the VFX a couple days ago and had been working on them for about an hour or two a day. Now that thats all done, I can focus on ADR and sound design.

In other news, my sound guy came over yesterday (he's still waiting on Soundtrack for his Mac) and we recorded all the ambient and foley. Went pretty well, and I even figured out that scene 2 and 3 don't need ANY foley. I hadn't even thought of it before. So we put in all the foley and ambient for the scenes that needed it and now we're just waiting on shooting the last shots in Scene 4 so that we can work on that next Saturday. We'll basically be sitting down for half a day and foley-ing scene 4... making the levels precise on all the audio, doing some panning. We're still contemplating the music... whether we want it or not that is.

Anyway, besides all of that, all I need to do is shoot the remaining shots of scene 4 (about 9 shots, none full-length, already got the master down.) Then I've got to quickly edit scene 4 before thursday (its the shortest scene). After that comes the hardest part, trimming down to 6 minutes. Currently, I'm looking at a 7 minute movie (once scene 4 is added in, and thats generous). I have a couple ways of cutting it down, I just have to find the best way without hurting the story-- oi vey! Really starting to feel that deadline. Thanks for all your support everyone!
 
the pics you posted look great! good luck in finishing i am looking forward to watching your flick!
 
hoz said:
the pics you posted look great! good luck in finishing i am looking forward to watching your flick!
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Thanks hoz! It appears you're doing two films? I haven't seen any screens yet but the titles are very intrigueing...can't wait to hear more!

Anyway! Good news! I just friggin finished laying down the ADR and adjusting some of the ambient noise (which is like 6 layers...well I guess 12 layers... deep). I just plowed through two dialogue scenes and got all the ADR laid down correctly. The last scene, which is being finished up tomorrow evening has no more dialogue so we're all set on the audio end. As I've said before VFX is complete. And the rest of the editing is quite straightforward. All I have to worry about is completing tomorrow's shoot and trimming down to 6 minutes. The end is near but I'm excited for it. I just got to watch through my scenes for the first time with the real (not necessarily final) cuts, audio, and color...so I'm pretty stoked. Its finally in somewhat watchable condition. Woohoo!!:beer:
 
Congrats on the developments! Everybody is cutting down their film to 6 minutes, except me :D I hit in at 4.40 incuding DVXuser leader and credits :D
 
Lucky... It takes a very efficient filmmaker to actually finish a film under a predetermined length... so my compliments to you! I'm already 1 day over shooting schedule and 1 minute over time. Anyway, last shoot tonight (with only 6 days till this is all over!) !!
 
Best of luck...you can do it...and this looks like a very interesting film!

I had a bit of work cutting 'Enchanting Twist' down to 6 minutes....but 'Twisted' fell right into place at 6 on the nose! Finally...a little bit of luck.
 
ZazaCast said:
Best of luck...you can do it...and this looks like a very interesting film!

I had a bit of work cutting 'Enchanting Twist' down to 6 minutes....but 'Twisted' fell right into place at 6 on the nose! Finally...a little bit of luck.
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I can't even imagine doing 2 films but I did start later than most. I wish mine fell into place at 6 minutes, I'm really having a hard time cutting it down. I did however manage to cut out 50 seconds eariler today (took me 2 hours!). Anyway.. heres the news...

ITS A WRAP! :beer:

Finished all the remaining shots... now we're done. We may go back and pick up one or two things for the "director's cut" with an intro but nothing with the actors or anything. So friggin' relieved right now, I can't even explain it. If I can, I'll post up a new grab from tonight in a bit, but the final scene's shots give away alot, so it may be hard to find one that doesn't. Now I just have to finish editing scene 4, cut back down to 6 minutes and I'm done.
 
Thanks! But I have horrible news... I just did a rough cut of scene 4... (its 2 AM here btw, but I just couldn't help myself) and my film comes out at just under 8 minutes. Oh no! That gives me 3 days, (saturday is saved for final audio touch up and finalizing) to cut nearly 2 minutes of my film, which I already considered quite lean. I know that it all comes down to how ridiculously long scene 1 came out, if I can shorten that, the rest of the film will be fine. I have a lot of work to do. Thanks for all your support everyone!
 
A new grab, as promised, this is the only one we shot tonight I could find that wouldn't give anything away .... Enjoy!

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Wow! I had no idea how hard it would be to cut down my film. Lets just say this- when I turned my computer on this afternoon, my film was a little over 8 minutes long, sitting here, typing this at 1 AM, it stands at 6 minutes 15 seconds. Those last 15 seconds will be the hardest to shave, but i'm gonna get it down to 5 minutes 50 seconds tomorrow I think. Why 5 minutes 50 seconds you ask? So that I have room to mess around a little before exporting the final copy.
 
Love the colors in the poster and how the linked washing machines express the title visually.

Yeah cutting those last 5-10 seconds are the hardest. Sometimes it's like "Wow my film is so much better and tighter since I had to cut it down" and sometimes it's like "wow things feel really rushed, nothing lands like I want it to". Hope your experience is the former.

Either way - it's good practice / experience to have to cut for time.

Looking forward to it :beer:
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Love the colors in the poster and how the linked washing machines express the title visually.

Yeah cutting those last 5-10 seconds are the hardest. Sometimes it's like "Wow my film is so much better and tighter since I had to cut it down" and sometimes it's like "wow things feel really rushed, nothing lands like I want it to". Hope your experience is the former.

Either way - it's good practice / experience to have to cut for time.

Looking forward to it :beer:
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Hey thanks alot! I just want to add that your film is one of my top must-sees! Not only am I a huge fan of cash cab (watch it nearly everyday), but I've also been considering joining a fest for like... well.. ever since zombie fest, and I've seen some of your entries and they're always on the top of the heap!

Anyway! I just saved my project in fcp, closed it all down, and came on here to say...


5 minutes.... 58 seconds... and 4 frames.

Wow. I did it-- when I first saw that I was a little over 8 minutes a couple days ago I nearly died. I had the rest of the film edited and for some reason I heavily underestimated the length of scene 4. After wrapping and quickly putting scene 4 together (its relatively simple but probably my favorite scene in the film) I found out I had estimated it to be 2 minutes too short. Wowza. That was shocking. Anyway, I cut down some oddly paced parts in the other scenes, literally had to butcher one of my favorite sequences (it still made it in though!), and made every shortcut I possibly could find-- and here we have it 05:58:04. I've never had to do that before to a film of my own... usually I run too short...not too long, so this was a new experience for me. In response to the statement above about how my film feels after cutting it down by 2 minutes-- I'd have to say its a definate mix of both. There are certain lines of dialogue I love that I had to take out because they simply weren't relevant enough to be necessary. There are certain shots that I cherish that I had to cut because they didn't NEED to be there. However, it did make the film FAR more efficient.... which is of course one of the most important parts of short films and filmmaking in general. I was planning on just submitting the short version to TwilightFest and using my previous long cut for other fests, but now I think I'll probably mix the two. There are certain portions I'd like to keep on screen a bit longer, and some lines I want to add back in... but some of the scenes are paced much more quickly now, which is in their favor I think (especially the first scene, it really dragged on.) Anyway... I'm glad thats over, now I can finish the small sound edits before finalizing on saturday.

Speaking of sound, I previously had decided that I didn't really want any sort of score on this peice. It seemed out of place for the type of film I was going for. But a complete lack of background music seems sort of empty (despite the ridiculous amount of ambient sound we've created and layered in). So I may go back in and do a very minimalist, light score for the film either tonight or tomorrow... we'll see. That'll give me a 6th hat in the production of this film haha. :beer:
 
Okay, so I'd say I've edited for nearly 10 hours today.... maybe a little more. The sound guy and I worked on the audio. The rest of the crew came over and took a gander at the film, everyone loves it but the common comment was that there needed to be some more sound-- songs, score, foley, something. So, my dad, who happens to be a musician, created 3 spankin new songs on his computer for us in one day... and now they're in our movie as background songs on the radio. The film is essentially complete, to the point where I'm confident enough to export a final copy of it--- however, i plan on showing it to a couple people (cast/crew/family/friends) tomorrow afternoon to get their quick opinions so that I can toy around with anything that I recieve overwhelmingly negative reviews on. Woo-- I didn't think I'd finish on time!
 
Dude you've got some great grabs. I love the CC on this one - for some reason the high contrast really works on this one. I'm looking forward to this one.
 
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