May Status Report Thread

Wow, that's amazing.

We had a really good shoot tonight. Everyone showed up on time, we had a lot of help, and the footage looks great. Only one more shot to go!

We've really been editing as we go, and we may even make it at the original 5 minute mark. After this weekend it's crunch time on final edit and sound design.
 
I'm out--

Was supposed to shoot this weekend, and some crew members went missing. So, we'll have to find another weekend to shoot.

Look forward to seeing everyone's stuff!
 
All I can say is that I HOPE I don't get tempted to enter the next competition ... these things are too distracting from the bigger projects I want to do, but at the same time we all walk away better film makers for it. So if there's another cool festival after this one, I'll have to commit to making it a QUICK & stupidly simple story, that can be shot in one day with just a couple of friends.

No more of these cast & crew of up to 25 people, etc. Sure, maybe I'm saying all this to please my wife, but sounds good at the moment to me too. :)
 
Kholi said:
I'm out--

Was supposed to shoot this weekend, and some crew members went missing. So, we'll have to find another weekend to shoot.

Look forward to seeing everyone's stuff!
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hey man sorry to hear that.

Can you edit a 30 second trailer together and enter for exibition just so we can see the fruit fof your work thus far ... or have you not shot at all yet?

Either way sorry man, you fought the good fight.
 
Envision said:
All I can say is that I HOPE I don't get tempted to enter the next competition ... maybe I'm saying all this to please my wife, but sounds good at the moment to me too. :)
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I promised my GF I wouldn't do this one but ... oh well ... I did need to know what it was like to produce in NY as I may be doing a feature soon.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
hey man sorry to hear that.

Can you edit a 30 second trailer together and enter for exibition just so we can see the fruit fof your work thus far ... or have you not shot at all yet?

Either way sorry man, you fought the good fight.
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This weekend was our shoot, sadly. It got up to this point, then one day before, I got emails and calls from people saying they couldn't make it. Either better paying jobs or family stuff.

Can't blame them, though. Just have to wait for another weekend, I suppose.
 
[SIZE=+0]I hope things fall back into place for you guys. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=+0]My problems have yet to begin, because we haven't started shooting yet. Actually today was a test run to figure out lighting and camera movement/placement. We (a 2 man crew) used ourselves as stand-ins to be able to do a rough edit of some of the sequences; just to check the flow of everything. It wasn't bad except for only having 2 people to break down and set up the equipment each time. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=+0]The locations that I was concerned about getting came through fine and should work great. So far so good. We are shooting some real footage on this Saturday and then not again until the 22nd and the 23rd. There's going to be some hard core, light night editing and scoring going on that last week. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=+0]You gotta love it.[/SIZE]
 
Wow, Snotart you are so behind.... I am in the same boat. Met with the writer last night to try out some pyro technics but it didnt work out like he thought it would. But we came up with another idea that worked pretty good, and is much safer. Now we have to film pretty much every shot tomorrow including some re-takes of last saturday. In a lot of ways this guy is pissing me off!!
 
I finished the first 3 shots but had to work my butt off to get the footage to blend in the backgrounds. I never pulled the greenscreen tight and had tons of wrinkles but figured I could still pull the mattes. I got most of the mattes but some tore into the talent so I had to come up with creative ways to hide the holes. Took me 2 days just to do the opening shot FX and make the energy ball look like it was part of the scene. :P Man, I bit off alot this time. That first shot was only like 3 seconds long and I have this end battle thats... Aye Carumba...getting a headache just thinking about it. My boss is going to hate me for taking off a few days but coming into work to work on this film since its a brand new kick ass workstation. I can have combustion open and rendering work in lightwave and photoshop without a hiccup. At home I have to wait and wait and wait.
 
Aram, if you've got THAT much equipment & software at your disposal, you must be a VFX king!

I'm confused ... aren't you & Jack working together on the same film, or are you guys just helping with each others' films?
 
Im hardly a VFX king. I shot a few scenes on a roof and a living room for Jack and then Timur took over so i could start on my flick. I was going to do something simple but fun originally but after seeing The Ore trailer I got syched to do something more. I am going to do the original idea for the extras/BTS footage since I can do it in a weekend I think.
Im pretty happy with the first few shots as they are even though they are not anywhere near perfect. I give myself a limit on what Im going to do on each shot so i can move on to the next and not get caught up in perfecting too much.
After I finish for the contest I can always tweak as needed.
 
Shot 2/3rds of the footage, edited about a minute of a rough cut. Working sparsley on VFX and music here and there.
 
We finished shooting last night...well, actually 3:30 this morning. Capturing the last few clips right now, and I hope to have a very rough cut for our composer by tonight.
 
Two more shots to go. One tonight, one tomorrow night. Have a pretty decent rough cut together and working on VFX/color correcting. Still so much to do...
 
Anthem78 said:
Still so much to do...
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There's an understatement ... at least as far as ours is concerned. Was supposed to have the first rough cut finished last night, but just couldn't get through the final scene ... too many good takes to choose from, which I guess is a good problem to have.

So I'm still trying to finish it now, then have to go back & clean up & tweak a bunch of other spots ... then follow up with more of that tomorrow (on Mothers Day - my wife will be SO glad!), as well as come up with a solid 5 minute cut out of our 20+ minute short.

Fun, fun, fun. This all has to be done tomorrow, to get to the composer before I leave for a week on Monday AM.
 
I'm hoping to hand ours off to the composer on Monday morning too. I could tweak this thing forever. Good thing for deadlines.
 
We just got the music laid down and are now putting in the VFX and color correcting. The sound effects are all recorded. Foley is TIME CONSUMING!! I now understand why people do not usually try to do EVERYTHING themselves for a movie. But, with all that said, I am having an absolutely fantastic time!
 
Finished shooting our last dialog scene and editing it now then its back to compositing. I have to give a big kudos to MsManhattan again for pulling us in on time and wrapping as scheduled. The actress said she loves working like that and she hates when things drag from poor planning. I think we wrapped shooting on time almost every shoot. Having the shot lists and everything planned makes things SOOO much faster.
Note to self: Dont move the camera when doing green screen shoots if you have a short time limit. Its freaking hard to match the move with the background images. :P
 
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