It’s been a long road, and I’ve learned a lot, but I’m getting a big rush of feeling each time I think about it – I’m reaching the end of the rough cut! There will be lots more to do (including another pass at the edit to clean it up and tighten it a bit, a lot of work on audio, color and annimation sequences) but that’ll mean that I’ll actually have a movie!
I’m finished with about 50 of the 64 scenes, and it is turning out really close in minutes to the page count of the script which is a really good thing. I was worried for a while that I’d end up with an excessively long rough cut that I would have to go through and ruthlessly hack away at in order to get to a reasonable length.
There have been a lot of really funny lessons along the way about what not to do (and I’ve been knocking around the idea of a special features bit called “Things I would have learned if I had gone to film school”) but over all I’m really happy with it. I have felt too close to the project to be able to look at it objectively and determine what is really working and what is not, but I’ve been able to show parts to people that I trust along the way and I think it will be pretty darn good.
So anyway, I’m going to post here more often now and sort of document the rest of the post production process. I was a little bit disheartened for a while because the fund raising effort went so poorly (although it was a fun party) but hey, this movie is getting made one way or another!
Sep
20
2009
