We're in the home stretch with the film, we've removed most of the technical glitches in the cut and are now very much focused on massaging story elements for emotional effect.
We're still waiting on archive photos and video to arrive in the post, hopefully tomorrow, which means it's the first 6 and half minutes of the film which are the most incomplete at the moment. The last thing we will do is cut the start of the film, go figure.
Today I designed and made the baseline keys in Photoshop, while Callum did another sweep of the film to make about 40 important changes. My friend Tony has agreed to help make the closing credits and Vilja has pulled out all the elements he needs for that while we go over everyone who requires attribution.
Providing the old photos and video arrive tomorrow, I'm hoping to cut the opening titles then. There's still an outstanding issue with music though, we would like to use two commercial songs in the film, but may have to bite the bullet and accept we can't afford them. That means picking something else which will effect the final outcome, but as no one will have seen the version with the commercial songs in it, no one will be any the wiser to what it could have been like.
Once we lock the film off, hopefully on Thursday, it will go for a sound mix. This should take a few days, but leave us with enough breathing room to have the film ready for everyone to watch online next week.
We can't afford a professional colour grade, so will do the best we can ourselves. If lots of people pay to watch the film and we find a television broadcaster who wants to screen it, then we can look at regrading the film then.
Right now we're on track, but we really need the archive material to arrive.
We're still waiting on archive photos and video to arrive in the post, hopefully tomorrow, which means it's the first 6 and half minutes of the film which are the most incomplete at the moment. The last thing we will do is cut the start of the film, go figure.
Today I designed and made the baseline keys in Photoshop, while Callum did another sweep of the film to make about 40 important changes. My friend Tony has agreed to help make the closing credits and Vilja has pulled out all the elements he needs for that while we go over everyone who requires attribution.
Providing the old photos and video arrive tomorrow, I'm hoping to cut the opening titles then. There's still an outstanding issue with music though, we would like to use two commercial songs in the film, but may have to bite the bullet and accept we can't afford them. That means picking something else which will effect the final outcome, but as no one will have seen the version with the commercial songs in it, no one will be any the wiser to what it could have been like.
Once we lock the film off, hopefully on Thursday, it will go for a sound mix. This should take a few days, but leave us with enough breathing room to have the film ready for everyone to watch online next week.
We can't afford a professional colour grade, so will do the best we can ourselves. If lots of people pay to watch the film and we find a television broadcaster who wants to screen it, then we can look at regrading the film then.
Right now we're on track, but we really need the archive material to arrive.
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