Jan 1st - The final status check thread

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Okay gang, how is everyone doing NOW that we are in the last month? Anyone who has NOT started shooting yet, and still hopes to have an entry? Anyone done with all shooting and CG ?

For me, I have lots of groundwork to do in terms on local networking before I am in position to shoot a short. I plan on being a judge this time. :) I hope there are less than 100 to watch...
 
Principle Photography next weekend (January 6th, 7th, and 8th). Been running test for using motion capture to help with animation of CGI aliens. Tests successful, and far better than I had hoped.
 
shooting is done. editing is near rough cut. Models Monday. Effects and CGI all month. Sound rest of month. That is all.
 
Haven't shot one frame. Shot some tests. Wrote a good script, very shootable, but too ambitious to shoot in time frame. Major girlfriend issues (keep hot one, or marry other one?). Need to think of script I can shoot in one weekend. Starting to panic.
 
I haven't shot principal photography yet, but I have been rendering a lot of CGI. lol I can't make anything simple, but my concept is. I hope it will be very entertaining to all. :) Green Screen work will commence once I get back from vacation. I can't wait to see what everybody will be submitting.
 
We already have our opening sequence (about 1 minute).

I finished my storyboards (Frameforge) last week and reviewed them with my DP. Sure he fainted, but after he regained consciousness and pointed out all the things we couldn't do, we agreed that we'd try it anyway. I think he not only went to the "Scotty School of Optimisim", I think he must teach there ("We canno' do it Captain. She'll rupture and break up and spread us all over the known Galaxy...").

But I digress.

We purchased the final set of props/wardrobe this afternoon. Then went directly to the final wardrobe check/fitting today (Me to gorgeous actress: "No, darling, just a little more cleavage ... Goooood" ...). It went well. Really. (Ahem)

Next week I need to finish off my Union clearances. I have all the necessary papaerwork in hand. Yippee.

VERY ambitious shooting schedule continues on the 6th (interior) and 7th (exterior) of January. Then it's off to editing (or, more likely, for pick-ups to try and fix the director's screw-ups).

And I lose my DP around the 10th, so no smarter-guy-than-me meddling with my edits this time around. That should help (Yeah. Right).

And, oh yeah - because my HVX won't be here by then, I'll be able to edit on Vegas 6.0 - so no whiny excuses from me (this time around) about trying to learn a new NLE before the contest closes (Apple? You mean the Beatles label, right?).

(And yup, I'm still being realistic, so I'm aiming for 27th place this time around - http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showpost.php?p=353731&postcount=38)

Good luck to all.

And Happy New Year:beer:
 
NBC adhering to normal production schedule---check!

P.S. Dump hot one (always trouble) and marry other one.

NBCshooter said:
Haven't shot one frame. Shot some tests. Wrote a good script, very shootable, but too ambitious to shoot in time frame. Major girlfriend issues (keep hot one, or marry other one?). Need to think of script I can shoot in one weekend. Starting to panic.
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Well... today was our "final" shoot day. I have one short final scene to shoot Monday night, but it'll only take about half an hour to do.

Today was brutal. We had rain start coming down with two or three shots left. And, sporatic rain throughout.

I should have a rough cut with all scenes, save the final one by the end of tomorrow.

Will finish effects (Three greenscreen shots, and some particle effects) on Monday, and Tuesday.

Hopefully will have a finished cut by the end of the week to begin scoring and sound mixing.
 
Like others, our first script was a bit too ambitious (although I had written it specifically to be easy and quick to shoot). I wrote another script last week which can be shot in a day (or two), and is a more interesting story.

We had already gone through most of the pre-production with the previous script, but we can use the same actors.

I've scheduled shooting for the 14th, and should be done post a week later.
 
We were going to shoot two pick ups today, but it was down pouring rain. With nothing but rain scheduled for the next 7+ days, it's cutting it too close to worry about now. We'll have our locked edit at 6 minutes to the composer (Chris Rojas w/RMI Studios) this Monday, as well as a slightly longer version (8-9 minutes ... paced out MUCH more quickly than we thought it would) with the poor footage we're going to reshoot & replace before we cut DVD's for the cast/crew & submit anywhere else.

This will give us an entire month for ADR, uprezzing, FX, sound, etc.
 
Rough cut is finished. Half of the ADR is done. I've completely 14 FX shots and have 24 more to do. Then it's foley, sound design, and score time.
 
Shoot the hot one & be nice to the marry one for how ever long the shooting of the hot one takes. Then check the gate and shoot again. Good nutrition or cake ? I say BOTH !!!

Cake first thou... incase you get full.
 
FInished my rough cut - working on effects - which is always a time hole - especially after I render and look and say "gee that looks really fake, lets try again".

Happy with the story and the look (shot with micro 35). Been able to edit around most issues - dont think i need any reshoots.

Tommorrow will begin some sound editing. Oh yeah and put a couple more fake effects in :) - I am really lucky that i have several practical effects cause the cgi is very difficult as I am sure everyone knows.

I also made this an opportunity to learn avid in prep for the hvx - always used premier - so the learning curve has slowed me down a bit.
 
Wow, I don't think I'd ever have the patience to learn a new NLE under a contest deadline like this ... then again, I'd probably never just take my down time to learn a new one either.

I'm not a patient person.
 
Wow... finished a really close cut of the film tonight (w/out VFX). And, it's 11 min. long! Great!!! Still have another 30 sec. scene to add. I hate this! I don't want to cut anything either. I really did not think it would run this long.
 
smelni said:
FInished my rough cut - working on effects - which is always a time hole - especially after I render and look and say "gee that looks really fake, lets try again".
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Just wait'll you get the thing done, looking great, then do a test burn to DVD for television....aaaauuuuggggghhhhhhh! All the CG looks different! The stuff you had to enhance to look nice in a WMV/MOV now looks like a kindergarten class drew it. :grin:
 
Shooting tests tonight, testing a rig, plan to shoot the bulk of it on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Should be nice and warm down here.
 
Envision said:
Wow, I don't think I'd ever have the patience to learn a new NLE under a contest deadline like this ... then again, I'd probably never just take my down time to learn a new one either.

I'm not a patient person.
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Norm...what new NLE did you learn?
 
Last scene being shot tonight. Gotta figure out what to cut out. My running time w/out credits is already twice as long as it's supposed to be...
 
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