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Thanks all. The actors were amazing. I agree, Kevin West is a great character actor. He's done some really great work in the past and I was very happy with his understated performance in this film.

I'm going to work with the editor tomorrow. He's put together a rough cut and we hope to have a pretty decent cut by the end of the day.

I'll et some screen grabs up after that.
 
Edited a rough cut today!

Edited a rough cut today!

I met with the editor. He did a great job of putting it all togehter. He left in everything so we could see what we had and make cuts from there. The problem is that it was 13 minutes long. We edited a tighter version and got it down to 9 and 1/2 minutes. I'm feeling like we'll have to ditch some good stuff, probably whole scenes, to be able to get it down to 6 minutes. The script was only 6 pages, so I thought i was safe.

Has anybody else run into this problem. I'm thinking about cutting a version exactly how I want it, at whatever length it ends at naturally (probably around 9 minutes) and then cut a second version, at 6 minutes, just for this festival.

What are you guys doing? Did you all plan it out right and make it in under the 6 minute mark?

Am I the only one who has gone over the time limit?
 
Joe,

I had a similar experience with Horrorfest. I ended up cutting a 9 minute 'tight' edit down to 6 minutes and the fest entry really suffered. There were a number of gaping holes in the story arc. If I had to do it over, I think that I would have entered the 9 minute version as a 'non' compete entry, unless you think the 6 minute version has a chance of winning a prize.

And regardless of what you end up doing, create the director's cut for yourself and your audience.

Best of luck to you and I know I'll be watching.
 
leave it 13 min, and make it non comp, like our drama fest film was. dont let your film suffer needlessly.
 
JOE BLO said:
I met with the editor. He did a great job of putting it all togehter. He left in everything so we could see what we had and make cuts from there. The problem is that it was 13 minutes long. We edited a tighter version and got it down to 9 and 1/2 minutes. I'm feeling like we'll have to ditch some good stuff, probably whole scenes, to be able to get it down to 6 minutes. The script was only 6 pages, so I thought i was safe.

Has anybody else run into this problem. I'm thinking about cutting a version exactly how I want it, at whatever length it ends at naturally (probably around 9 minutes) and then cut a second version, at 6 minutes, just for this festival.

What are you guys doing? Did you all plan it out right and make it in under the 6 minute mark?

Am I the only one who has gone over the time limit?
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We are going through this as well and I went through it as well with Stricken. With Stricken, I decided to enter Non-Compete. With Sleeper, we will cut a 6 min version, but enter festivals and such after this with our full length version. It just depends on if you think your film will still be a film with the stuf cut out. If it makes it inconsistent and watered down, then I would hesitate before entering it. I want to leave people with a wow factor.:beer:
 
I'll see if we can cut it down to 6 minutes without it sucking. But I'm leaning towards entering the longer cut in the non-compete part of the festival.

I'll see what we come up with.
 
Here are some screen grabs from the rough cut of SORRY. We haven't done color correction or visual effects yet, and the 2.35 framing isn't finalized yet.

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We got it cut down to under 6 minutes!!!!

We got it cut down to under 6 minutes!!!!

We had a great edit session last night and we were able to cut the film down to under 6 minutes. I think it will be a much better film at this shorter lendth. We plan on locking the film on Friday so that we can hand it off to the composer and SFX guys.
 
JOE BLO said:
I'll see if we can cut it down to 6 minutes without it sucking. But I'm leaning towards entering the longer cut in the non-compete part of the festival.
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Unfortunately, the "non-compete" option is no longer available. The reason it existed in the past was because of the "DVX/HVX" only clause. Now that all cameras are allowed, all entries must be qualified entries and will be rejected if they do not conform the posted rules.

This is not because we don't want to see your film(s), but because there are so many entries over the past few festivals, that it becomes unfair to those competing when some of the "compete" entries get missed by viewers because of watching "non-compete" entries.

And, there are several opportunities, within DVXUSER itself, to show off your work that if you have a "non-competing" entry, you can just release it as a regular video sample.

BTW - the grabs are looking really good...I hope you get this cut down, as I'm looking forward to seeing how it turned out.
 
Larry R said:
Unfortunately, the "non-compete" option is no longer available. The reason it existed in the past was because of the "DVX/HVX" only clause. Now that all cameras are allowed, all entries must be qualified entries and will be rejected if they do not conform the posted rules.

This is not because we don't want to see your film(s), but because there are so many entries over the past few festivals, that it becomes unfair to those competing when some of the "compete" entries get missed by viewers because of watching "non-compete" entries.

And, there are several opportunities, within DVXUSER itself, to show off your work that if you have a "non-competing" entry, you can just release it as a regular video sample.

BTW - the grabs are looking really good...I hope you get this cut down, as I'm looking forward to seeing how it turned out.
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Thanks for the headsup Larry. That makes me even more excited about the new cut of the film. I think it plays much better at this under 6 minute version.
 
I don't know why it's taken me so long to get on here!!

Thank yo uso much, Joe, for the opportunity to work on this project. It was AWESOME!!! Speaking from a crew member's perspective, I can say that the cast you got was really great. Despite the looooong nights, everybody kept their cool and saved the drama. Speaking from an actor's perspective, the crew and the set were amazing. Mike does such a nice job, and the hospitatlity, care and patience of the crew was extremely beneficial.

Oh, and Jackie Chan rocks.
 
Hermn8r said:
I don't know why it's taken me so long to get on here!!

Thank yo uso much, Joe, for the opportunity to work on this project. It was AWESOME!!! Speaking from a crew member's perspective, I can say that the cast you got was really great. Despite the looooong nights, everybody kept their cool and saved the drama. Speaking from an actor's perspective, the crew and the set were amazing. Mike does such a nice job, and the hospitatlity, care and patience of the crew was extremely beneficial.

Oh, and Jackie Chan rocks.
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John, You and Caroline were a great help on the film. Sorry about the long nights. That was my lwast favorite part of the process. Thanks for coming back for the reshoot. It made a huge difference .

I can't wait to get this done and show you.
 
It's all part of movie-making, my friend!!

My least favorite part was feeling a responsibility for trying to eat all of the leftover McDonald's. Ben should NOT be in charge of craft service!! :laugh:
 
What I'm saying is that his portions are too gigantic... so no, he didn't make up for it in pasta because I specifically recall eating too much there as well!!
 
Wow... I have NEVER heard of an actor complaining about the portions being too large!!!

Just checked out the grabs... nice. I know that I've said it before but this cast looks awesome!

Looking forward to it!!!

-Ted
 
Oh I'm not complaining about the portions, I'm complaining about the fact that I seemed to be the only one who continuously went in for seconds!! Later in the day, then, I could be found in the bathroom.

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An Actual BTS photo... I swear!!! Check Joe's camera!
 
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