"Picture" - A film by Amy Beth O'Brien

AmyO said:
I really don't know how you made TWO movies and got them done ahead of schedule. I'm impressed.
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I just hope you're impressed when you watch them! :beer: No great feat, I just jumped right into it as soon as it was announced.

No worries, you'll get this one done & we'll all be blessed with another great AmyO film...I'm looking forward to it!
 
Thanks Michael! I'm looking forward to your film, too.

And, Zaza, thanks for your kind words. I'm interested to see how people react to this film. I've got a bit more invested in it this time around.
 
Hey Amy, are any of the pictures you posted of you?

Some trivia for you, my wife is about to give birth to our second child (her due date is monday, but it could be any day) and we're going to name him Tristan Daniel Obrien Nelson, since my grandma was an O'Brien.
 
shawneous said:
Hey Amy, are any of the pictures you posted of you?

Some trivia for you, my wife is about to give birth to our second child (her due date is monday, but it could be any day) and we're going to name him Tristan Daniel Obrien Nelson, since my grandma was an O'Brien.
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Congratulations!! :beer:
Nice name as well.

I have a little one of my own. Changes your life completely, as you already know. :thumbup:

Cheers,

Mike
 
Nope. No pics of me. I prefer to be behind the camera! The pic above in the doorway is my actress, Laura.

Congrats on the baby-on-the-way! I love the name. I'm an O'Brien by "marriage" (changed to partner's name), but think its a cool name nonetheless. How old is your first child?
 
Home stretch

Home stretch

Oh my goodness! I just finished my last image correction pass! I'm puttin' a fork in that part and calling it done.

Went over to Jeff Mills' house this evening to record an off screen voice. Took all of 10 minutes 'cause he rocks the Casbah. Gonna drop it in and clean up the sound tomorrow and I think I may just have this done before I leave town tomorrow afternoon!

Compressing and uploading may have to wait until Sunday evening when I return, but I've already made some tests with my rough cuts so I already have the settings programed in to Compressor.

That is all.
Good-night.
 
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KNOW I JUST NEED A COLD PHONE
 
Done.

Done.

Upload complete!

I had all my ducks in a row Thursday to be done before I went out of town.

Then Soundtrack happened. Not "the soundtrack". Apple's capital "S" Soundtrack.app. I exported my mix back to FCP and the levels were all wrong! Went back into Soundtrack to see what was wrong, everything looked okay, but played back with no regard to the levels I had so carefully set. No time to fix. Had to go load suitacases and kids in the car.

Came back this afternoon and fought with Soundtrack over audio levels. I had carefully adjusted levels, scene by scene, and in relation to the score. Export to FCP, and Soundtrack decided my levels were wrong, and so ignored them. Not just ignored, in one scene it RAISED the levels so they clipped! Got it to behave with 90% of the film. Replaced the other 10% with unaltered audio in FCP and set levels clip by clip. Annoying!

But, hey, it's midnight and my film is uploaded! So, yeah. I'm going to bed. Good luck to those who are finishing up. Can't wait to start watching! :)
 
Thanks guys!

Now, all I can do is sit back and anxiously await the reviews to come in. It's gonna be a long week (assuming a Halloween opening date for viewing).
 
Congratulations Amy! Yes, I had strange happenings with Soundtrack earlier today. For some reason the mixer would work the levels by itself when I hit play. Very strange, but it actually did something great for me - for some strange reason it leveled out all my clips so they were normalized, so to speak - I had already normalized the entire thing.

Who knows what happens in the wee hours of the morning after you've been editing ALL YEAR LONG, it seems.
 
Reviews are the real hard part, but totally worth it. Looking forward to your film. The cast and crew on Blood & Coffee are all looking forward to seeing this on the first night of viewing (and me too).
 
Thanks Puck! Can't wait to see your vampire filck!

On a side note, in kind of "Twilight Zone" vibe, I had a very surreal moment today. Less than 12 hours after submitting "Picture" for this fest, I turned in a MiniDV copy of "Four" (from TimeFest) for the Northwest Film and Video Festival. I found out I was accepted a few weeks ago, but because of working on "Picture" I put off making the tape until today. It was a little weird turning in my TimeFest film so soon after submitting this one.

And seriously, 70+ films (I'm counting the planned "exhibition" films in that tally)? Wow. I'll have to stock up on snacks . . .
 
Hey, psyched to see you in this one. Is the kid going to be in this one too? She's a cutie. Good luck. Can't wait to view.
 
Thanks, Dannielleus!
I wrote this script with Cheyenne in mind. In fact "Four" was really a sort of camera test to see how well she'd do taking directions and so forth. Along the way, I practiced the lines for "Picture" with her, but she'd either flat out refuse to say them, or get really self conscious about the whole thing. If that was how she acted around just me, I knew she would gave a harder time with a crew. So, I made the decision to cast someone else. I think you'll find Logan pretty cute, too! :)
 
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