I’ve just finished a rough edit of the footage shot on Sunday. It’s shaping up rather nicely. I’m so glad I read Walter Murch’s ‘In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
The other thing I’m worried about is the audio, I never got a really good take all the way through, so there is quite a bit of background noise pitch shifting between cuts, which is irritating. I suppose if the worst comes to the worst we can ADR it. I’m going to have to go out in the back garden and rerecord big chunks of background noise to apply to the whole track, I forgot to do that the other day, although we were quite near a main road, so it probably would have been a bit of a pointless exercise.
Vickie and I went round Ben’s at lunchtime for a readthrough of their scenes. It’s a strange and wonderful experience hearing people speak words that you’ve written, putting emotions and inflections you could never dream of and making them come alive.
I keep worrying that I’m not doing enough ‘directing’, but I’m starting to get the feeling that Dramatica is coming through with another benefit in that, by controlling the flow of the subtext and action during the writing phase, the script analysis is easy to put together and then expand. I’ve been through my notes with both Ben and Vickie and they more or less got it first attempt.
In fact there was only one line that Vickie read in a way that didn’t sit right with me, and then I realised it was my fault for putting an errant question mark in where the line was more of an accusatory statement.
We’ve been given clearance to film in the offices at work on Saturday, so I’ve really got to get my skates on and make sure everything is ready for the weekend now. It’s going to be a long one.
2 comments
juan says:
June 24, 2005 at 5:05 pm (UTC 1 )
Hey don’t you have friends to help you produce
Andy says:
June 24, 2005 at 10:53 pm (UTC 1 )
Hi Juan,
Yep, I got friends, but at this stage I want to do as much as I can to learn about filmmaking. Once we get to the later stages of sound, music and final composition, I’ll drag other people in kicking and screaming to help. Not that they aren’t already…
The full list of people involved are:
Cast:
Jess – Vickie Bruce
Alice – Louise Vreony
Dr Crabtree – Ben Shockley
Mr Widdershins – TBA
Jarvis McQuarry, Ace News Reporter – Chris Owen
Crew:
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor – Me
Co-Producer – Louise Vreony
Production Designer – Amber Reed
Gaffer – Chris Owen
Cinematography – Nicola Griggs
Continuity – Lucy Coughlan
Sound Technician/Composer – Darren Miller
So as you can see, I have a few people helping (although whether they’ll still want to be my friend at the end of it all remains to be seen!).
As I’ve said from the outset, this is about learning how to make films, and none of us (with the exception of a couple of the actors) have any extensive knowledge of the film industry.
Andy