Jan 1st - The final status check thread

How lucky do you have to be to get the highest single day temperature drop registered since 1982 - 22°C (71.6°F) - on your first shooting day? It's now -22° to -25°C (-7.6° to -13°F) in the city downtown and god knows how much lower than this in the countryside where shooting (most of which is set outside, in the woods) was supposed to take place...
 
so, life is jacked up.

It just so happens the ONE day all my talent is available to be togethor, is the exact same day I move into the new house.

HO HO HO MERRY FUXMAS!

That day happens to be on the 22nd.

What do you guys think? Filmed, cg'ed, scored in 9 days?

Awesomeness? I THINK MEBE!
 
lucidz said:
so, life is jacked up.

It just so happens the ONE day all my talent is available to be togethor, is the exact same day I move into the new house.

HO HO HO MERRY FUXMAS!

That day happens to be on the 22nd.

What do you guys think? Filmed, cg'ed, scored in 9 days?

Awesomeness? I THINK MEBE!
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It can be done!!!

I have about 2/3rds to shoot, edit and score this weekend because of COURSE, I got another big Jan 29th deadline and have been working late everyday. I'm going to have to shoot friday night and sat morning, edit sat night, score sunday...
Yeah it can be done also!!!
 
OK guys I have a dilemma...

I've shot 90% of my footage and started on the effects work but...

I was recently invited to go to Washington DC (for free!) for a month starting this weekend... Naturally this causes problems with shooting... What would you guys do, finish the short or take the trip? I'm having trouble deciding and time's running out (for both).
 
Dude, can you somehow shoot the last 10% before you leave, then edit while in DC? I did something similar. I shot everything, then edited, and everything while I was on vacation in Florida, last week.
 
Well if you go to DC then that is one less person to compete with :)

just kidding - but that is a hard decision - try to bang it out
 
I know you are asking us "what we would do" but it's such an individual thing based on
- how much you are just doing this for fun or how serious you are about filmaking
- how disapointed or not your other collaborators will be if you don't finish the film for competition / don't finish it at all
- what other resources you've invested in your short -- time, money, favors?
- what's in D.C. besides monuments etc. Are you going for a month of vacation, or to work on some career or life advancing thing?

Ideally: do both -- you said this causes problems with shooting -- does that mean problems -- or makes shooting impossible? If this is some great opportunity in DC and you can still somehow get the footage shot before you go, then tell your friends and collaborators how much it means to you and see if you can get that last 10% in a few all nighters or whatever you have to do. Tell them that while the opportunity in DC is important, so too is the film and their contributions to it and that you would like to honor that by completing it ... so would they help you out above and beyond by putting in some brutal hours the next few days - the advantage for them, other than your undying grattitude when you get your first studio picture, is that they are wrapped sooner.
 
Update: All VFX done. Score will be finished this weekend, then on to cutting it down (11 min right now). Everything else is done!
 
when people say "100 VFX shots" what defines "a shot"
- VFX over one camera angle regardless of cuts within that angle?
- each VFX over one camera angle i.e. the guuy's watch and eyes light up 2 VFX shots, or 1?
--- or what exactly
just want to know so I can represent
THX
 
Shaw said:
OK guys I have a dilemma...

I've shot 90% of my footage and started on the effects work but...

I was recently invited to go to Washington DC (for free!) for a month starting this weekend... Naturally this causes problems with shooting... What would you guys do, finish the short or take the trip? I'm having trouble deciding and time's running out (for both).
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I'd finish the film. That's just me because I'm VERY eager to learn and get alot of quality shorts under my belt. Also, really consider what jack said-How badly will the collaborators be dissappointed? Tim
 
I would say there are 6 VFX shots in our film, each one if one angle, but there are no multiple angles in any of the shots.
 
Slimothy said:
I'd finish the film. That's just me because I'm VERY eager to learn and get alot of quality shorts under my belt. Also, really consider what jack said-How badly will the collaborators be dissappointed? Tim
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Yeah if you are paying people scale, or if they are your wife and kids maybe like disjecta's joints, then too bad for them, but if they are working for free then they were probably doing it partly because they believed in you and partly because they hoped to be rewarded with a finished producr to show for their work.
 
jdanstan said:
when people say "100 VFX shots" what defines "a shot"
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Good question. I may be counting incorrectly, but to me an FX Shot constitutes camera angle with cuts. So if my sequences goes A, B, A, that's three FX Shots even though angle A was used twice. I'm counting that way because of my workflow. I have to do the FX on A twice, so I'm counting it by gosh! :laugh:
 
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