"Stay Sharp" a film by Amy Beth O'Brien

I've had some close calls in these fests before, but nothing like this! Just locked picture this morning after being away from my editing computer for two weeks! Ugh! Sent it off to Damian Sanchez who had been waiting ever so patiently for me to finish. I might be cutting it close for him to be able to score it, since he's so far ahead time-zone wise.

Now it is time to clean up the sound and put it through Color. Wheeee! At least I have a compression profile created from past fests so I can just load it up and let 'er rip Friday morning - er, ah - Thursday evening, yeah, that's it. I'm not gonna tempt fate by trying to compress and upload this at 10am Friday morning. No, really, I'm not.
 
I see right through you Amy. I know you're secretly plotting to be the last (even though you said you were so its not quite so secret come to think of it...). Thankfully Damian is mainly finished my score so I've warmed him up for you.

He'll be able to pull some amazing music out of your film and turn it around fairly fast. Even with the time zone thing, he will rock your world.

In a good way of course.

:beer:
 
I've been hearing lots of praise for Damian's work in this fest, so I'm confident he will deliver.

And, yes, you are on to my little plan. But that doesn't matter, I will succeed! ;-)
 
Damian did a great job for me too!

Glad to hear of your progress....see.... I knew you'd make it (Damn it!). I'm sure this one will do well too.

.....and just so you know... I dedicated the very last line in "Miss Laid" to you! You are an inspiration.
 
Keep chugging away! I thought I would be closer, but I frittered the month away. Mostly down to audio.

On another note, my son has entered too. His first short and its not too bad. He likely kick my butt.
 
When we have our cast and crew screening here in Portland (some point likely 2nd or 3rd week in July) do you want to come? The entire team is PDX local, so we think it would be totally cool to meet you. We would, of course, ask that you bring a good Quicktime of your movie and we will watch it as well!
 
Kurt: I think it's great that your son is entering this one! Can't wait to see what he creates. I'm teaching a few weeks (here and there) of a filmmaking camp for 4th - 6th graders this summer. They amaze me with the stories they come up with.

Devon: I'd love to attend your screening. I'm always up for meeting PDX filmmakers! Just let me know the date and time when you get it locked down. Thanks for offering to screen my film as well.
 
Okay, sorry for the double post, but this is MY thread, gosh darnit, so I'll do what I like.

Anyway, just wanted to say a public thank you to Ryan Frias for offering to do my sound edit for me. And to Damian Sanchez for doing my score. Their credits have been added to the first post as well. Thanks guys!
 
AmyO said:
Okay, sorry for the double post, but this is MY thread, gosh darnit, so I'll do what I like.

Anyway, just wanted to say a public thank you to Ryan Frias for offering to do my sound edit for me. And to Damian Sanchez for doing my score. Their credits have been added to the first post as well. Thanks guys!
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Glad to hear that Ryan is aboard. He's definitely a big asset to the film.
 
Thanks, Ryan. And you were no slow-poke yourself.

Both Ryan and Damian did an amazing job in a short amount of time. It is greatly appreciated. I really thought I'd be doing it all myself given how close to the deadline I was working. The DVXUser community rocks the casbah! :)
 
And I'm done. Colored, compressed, and uploaded. More than 12 hours before the deadline. Yay!
 
Amy i just saw your un-color corrected stills, very nice looking images, soft and pastelly.
(Not soft as in focus, just the "feel")
What did you do for color correcting? it looks like the footage just needed a little contrast.
 
For the most part I did just adjust the contrast. I also had to adjust for shifting colors as I shot the dining table scenes primarily with available sunlight. A couple of the other scenes needed some color TLC as well. Nothing major. Just balancing things out between scenes and giving it a bit of punch. Thanks for your complements!
 
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