After a final spurt of activity over the past few days, my work on Greetings is complete. It’s taken up nearly eight months of my life and at times it’s been nothing short of very hard work, but I’m really pleased with the final result.
Yes, it could have benefitted from a few extra days of shooting, and it’s running time of 75 minutes is a touch on the short side, but at the end of the day, it’s a low budget indie feature shot in one house over four weeks. We’re not in the realm of Hollywood blockbuster here, by any stretch of the imagination.
Ken seems very pleased with the end product too, though he’s yet to see it with the final audio mix on a big screen. But we’ve set ourselves this weekend as the deadline, if it ain’t right now it never will be.
Ken is hoping to premiere it at the Digital Cinema in Hawkshurst in a few weeks time, which will be cool, if not a little odd. It’s a strange experience where you live with these people in your life for such a long time that they feel like old friends, but you’ve never met half of them.
Now I can focus on the rewrite of The Trimes, after I catch up on a shedload of movies, starting tomorrow evening with the latest Harry Potter…
One book I must mention, which I’ve just finished reading is Mike Figgis’ ‘Digital Filmmaking’, which is a rather splendid little book with some real gems of wisdom tucked away inside. It reminded me a lot of David Lynch’s ‘Catching the Big Fish’ (but with possibly more useful information and less TM stuff).
If you’re interested in how shooting digitally stacks up against shooting on traditional film, Mike explores the issues in great detail. Well worth checking out.
It’s given me a big boost that I’m heading in the right direction with my plans for The Trimes.