Today we had the premiere showing of Greetings at BAFTA (or apparently, 195, to those in the know), which was an exciting thing. About 20 of us headed into their little screening room as Ken presented both Alligator and Greetings. Both went down very well.
For a film shot on DV Cam, Greetings looked really good. It was hard to tell how much better the grading work Paul Miller had done made it, but it looked great.
One big problem we had was the sound. I don’t know how, but during the transfer over to DigiBeta my beautiful mixing seems to have got muddled so that the dialogue tracks in the FCP project were forced out to the left and right channels. So as people spoke, their dialogue kept bouncing back from left to right. Really annoying. As soon as I got home I checked my version of the film, on the Hard Disk that Ken had only just returned to me on Saturday, and it’s just as perfect as when I handed it over to him.
He’s probably not reading this, but I’d like to say thanks to the nice technician chap at BAFTA who tried several ways to fix it, even though they didn’t work.
Barring that the screening went well. I met a few more of Ken’s actor friends, and also finally got to meet Mel Stephenson, who plays one of the leads in the film. It’s the most bizarre feeling on earth to be confronted by someone who doesn’t have a clue who you are, yet you feel like you know them really well because you’ve spent every night for six months with them.
She was taller than I had imagined, and, as it tuned out, a lot nicer than the ‘hormanal bitch’ she plays in Greetings.