Progress report
No pictures tonight, just a short heads-up on our five films, with some interesting 'overheard' comments.
In script order:
Bacci's Cheshire man is almost in fine cut stage. This due to Joe's very economical shooting methods, working chronologically and then making overlaps and adding needed inserts as they suggest themselves. Quite improvisatory, but very effective, and a very low shoot to film ratio. And, of course, a much more straightforward edit.
The Trial has suffered because Dan C. has been ill, and still unable to start importing. So today, under his bedside instructions, I took in a series of sample shots, from a LOT of material (three cameras) but it cuts together pretty well. Stilol, what you will see will have none of Dan's planned effects and framing. I will say no more here about that. Ask him on the night. just this, though: Vanessa's performance is GREAT, and I think she brought out a little extra from Jolie, too, who looks genuinely scared here.
It occurred to me, at this point, that both the above scenes are rather grim and eerie. Quite Alice like, in fact.
The Tea Party also has a wealth of material, here because of multiple cameras, and the free ranging improvs. However, we are starting to make sense of it. The thing to remember about editing is you do need to CUT. So we will have a fairly lively scene for your pleasure. That lens...
Best of all (from my p.o.v.) is that Jenna and Lillian are now picking up Final Cut, and are passably impatient with my explanations and interference, and want to do the edit themselves. So tomoorow's is the first end-to-end of a rather complex verbal scene.
Becky's Caterpillar is proceeding apace, but on two levels. becky - perhaps from her documentary background - doesn't like making 'rough cuts' of a whole piece, but prefers concentrating on the minutae of a shorter sequence. So the beginning is almost done, while the later part of the scene is pretty much 'as shot'. Here. we have the best sound (radio mikes in a silent barn) and two actors, doing their stuff. I think Jolie sounds particularly convincing as a tired girl, here. It was zero degrees.
And finally, Trevor will have finished the live action start and finish of his piece, but he is AS I WRITE attacking the animated midsection of the film in the basement. I do not ask him to have this rushed and ready for tomorrow night.
What remains after this is to photograph the start (Bayla, Emmi and Christina, in ten days); to film a few transition scenes in tunnels and corridors. Preferably without dead deer... and , finally, hopefully this Friday night?? to film one shot at a Baba Yaga gig in Woodstock.
Right now - 9.16 p.m. it's bedtime.
In script order:
Bacci's Cheshire man is almost in fine cut stage. This due to Joe's very economical shooting methods, working chronologically and then making overlaps and adding needed inserts as they suggest themselves. Quite improvisatory, but very effective, and a very low shoot to film ratio. And, of course, a much more straightforward edit.
The Trial has suffered because Dan C. has been ill, and still unable to start importing. So today, under his bedside instructions, I took in a series of sample shots, from a LOT of material (three cameras) but it cuts together pretty well. Stilol, what you will see will have none of Dan's planned effects and framing. I will say no more here about that. Ask him on the night. just this, though: Vanessa's performance is GREAT, and I think she brought out a little extra from Jolie, too, who looks genuinely scared here.
It occurred to me, at this point, that both the above scenes are rather grim and eerie. Quite Alice like, in fact.
The Tea Party also has a wealth of material, here because of multiple cameras, and the free ranging improvs. However, we are starting to make sense of it. The thing to remember about editing is you do need to CUT. So we will have a fairly lively scene for your pleasure. That lens...
Best of all (from my p.o.v.) is that Jenna and Lillian are now picking up Final Cut, and are passably impatient with my explanations and interference, and want to do the edit themselves. So tomoorow's is the first end-to-end of a rather complex verbal scene.
Becky's Caterpillar is proceeding apace, but on two levels. becky - perhaps from her documentary background - doesn't like making 'rough cuts' of a whole piece, but prefers concentrating on the minutae of a shorter sequence. So the beginning is almost done, while the later part of the scene is pretty much 'as shot'. Here. we have the best sound (radio mikes in a silent barn) and two actors, doing their stuff. I think Jolie sounds particularly convincing as a tired girl, here. It was zero degrees.
And finally, Trevor will have finished the live action start and finish of his piece, but he is AS I WRITE attacking the animated midsection of the film in the basement. I do not ask him to have this rushed and ready for tomorrow night.
What remains after this is to photograph the start (Bayla, Emmi and Christina, in ten days); to film a few transition scenes in tunnels and corridors. Preferably without dead deer... and , finally, hopefully this Friday night?? to film one shot at a Baba Yaga gig in Woodstock.
Right now - 9.16 p.m. it's bedtime.
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