The Dead Can’t Edit
Getting into the tedious part of the editing process now. Going back through and fine-tuning, tightening up the scenes and movements. Also laying down songs on key parts.
I’ll still need more music, hopefully to be written for us, but that may have to come after out first initial festival deadline. We’ll still be cutting it close as is, and the sound will still be rough, but I think we’ll make in time.
It would be great to get into this festival, a major one. The odds, of course, are astronomical, though. But we’ll certainly try.
Ad while I am looking forward to finishing the film, which is still a ways until we have a final, locked print, I’m not looking forward to the distribution phase, the sending off to festivals and the inevitable rejection after rejection after rejection. That part really, really sucks. But it’s part of the nature of the beast, and hopefully we’ll really luck out and have a nice festival run.
But that’s all getting way ahead of ourselves. Now, I need to focus on the cut at hand. It’s getting tightened up nicely, but I know I’ll still want it to move faster in the first act.
But I have been working very hard, almost too hard, and I can feel my body rebelling. It’s not reacting kindly to spending too much time in front of a computer nor does it like the lack of adequate rest.
But this weekend, we’ll still shoot some footage of blood splattering that I will design into the title sequence and on Sunday, we’ll get the radio announcer voice work done and shot. I’ll also get the powwow music we’re using early next week, then lay all that stuff in, then have the rough cut mastered to DVD and shipped off by Dec. 3.
I hope, anyway. Here’s getting back at it,
-r.
