Hour before Morning et al.
Sep. 19th, 2010 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labingiI feel a need to post an update. Here goes...
The Hour before Morning progresseth... at a snail's pace.
We did a spot of dubbing for The Hour before Morning today, and then we watched the half of the rough cut that Matt had on his computer. By and large, I was very pleased. There are certainly some amateur moments: some rough edits, mumbled lines, odd lighting/makeup, quick cuts with dubious continuity (that last entirely the fault of yours truly, the writer). But a lot of those places can be smoothed over in post with the generous application of fade outs, music, audiovisual tweaking, etc. Will it look professional? No. Will it look pretty good for a $10-$15,000 movie. Yes!
Most pleasing were the performances by our three principals. They are all consistently good-to-excellent with many pro moments. My current favorite is Trish's (Meravyn's) reaction to Greg's (Jenchae's) bad pun, "I have him in hand," a play on Elek having recently broken his hands. I cannot describe the way she widens her eyes, but it speaks volumes.
We sawhaemony as Jenchae's mother, looking very motherly and appropriately under stress. I don't know how we managed to miss her falling scene; we shot it at least five times, but it's not there. We still have good material though, better once we have music and a less utterly weird (lack of) transition into the scene.
Thanks to Tyler, Jonathon, Greg, and Matt (in no particular order) for fine work on the dubbing today.
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In other news, in a week I start teaching and am totally unprepared. Why did I take on three different courses I've never taught before?? Still, I am excited and think they will be good once I'm done with my initial scrambling.
The Hour before Morning progresseth... at a snail's pace.
We did a spot of dubbing for The Hour before Morning today, and then we watched the half of the rough cut that Matt had on his computer. By and large, I was very pleased. There are certainly some amateur moments: some rough edits, mumbled lines, odd lighting/makeup, quick cuts with dubious continuity (that last entirely the fault of yours truly, the writer). But a lot of those places can be smoothed over in post with the generous application of fade outs, music, audiovisual tweaking, etc. Will it look professional? No. Will it look pretty good for a $10-$15,000 movie. Yes!
Most pleasing were the performances by our three principals. They are all consistently good-to-excellent with many pro moments. My current favorite is Trish's (Meravyn's) reaction to Greg's (Jenchae's) bad pun, "I have him in hand," a play on Elek having recently broken his hands. I cannot describe the way she widens her eyes, but it speaks volumes.
We saw
haemony as Jenchae's mother, looking very motherly and appropriately under stress. I don't know how we managed to miss her falling scene; we shot it at least five times, but it's not there. We still have good material though, better once we have music and a less utterly weird (lack of) transition into the scene.Thanks to Tyler, Jonathon, Greg, and Matt (in no particular order) for fine work on the dubbing today.
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In other news, in a week I start teaching and am totally unprepared. Why did I take on three different courses I've never taught before?? Still, I am excited and think they will be good once I'm done with my initial scrambling.
