Brief Hour before Morning and RL Update
Aug. 15th, 2011 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labingiThe Hour before Morning
I met with Michael on Sunday to look over the visual effects so far. He and his colleagues have done a lot of work! Highlights include...
* The infamous "hover sphere" scene, which we failed utterly to film with any continuity. In this case, our mantra, "We'll fix it in post," has proven pretty valid. Michael has created a nice continuity via "hover sphere" effects that makes good sense out of the disparate people standing/sitting around like they weren't in the same shoot, which they weren't.
* The telepathic FX are also looking good, kind of purply and wavy--nothing mold-breaking but very coherent for tracking when telepathy is going on. Michael also interpolated a nice bit of TPFX when young Jenchae makes a fist. Jake, the director, came up with the fist idea as a visual for young Jenchae's anger. We hadn't thought telepathy at all, but Michael's effect becomes a nice piece of foreshadowing for Jenchae's telepathic power; it all came together nicely.
* The mindscape green screen stuff is also looking good: dark and starry and mysterious.
* Finally, I was personally excited to see the orange, cityscape twilight of Akhté's big window. I'm not a very visual person, but this was one of the strong visual images I've ever since the book (it's in the book), and it's looking exactly as I pictured it. Lovely!
Real Life
In RL, things are finally slowing down a little--and will stay that way for about three weeks before speeding up again. I got my welcome albums for the kids in Haiti sent off, which is a huge load off my mind. I've been putting that off for months.
I now have confirmed teaching appointments for three classes in the fall, none of which, of course, are at my first-choice school, which I'm still waiting on. If I get in there, I'll be teaching four, which will kill me, but at least the money will be welcome. Better rest up while I can.
I met with Michael on Sunday to look over the visual effects so far. He and his colleagues have done a lot of work! Highlights include...
* The infamous "hover sphere" scene, which we failed utterly to film with any continuity. In this case, our mantra, "We'll fix it in post," has proven pretty valid. Michael has created a nice continuity via "hover sphere" effects that makes good sense out of the disparate people standing/sitting around like they weren't in the same shoot, which they weren't.
* The telepathic FX are also looking good, kind of purply and wavy--nothing mold-breaking but very coherent for tracking when telepathy is going on. Michael also interpolated a nice bit of TPFX when young Jenchae makes a fist. Jake, the director, came up with the fist idea as a visual for young Jenchae's anger. We hadn't thought telepathy at all, but Michael's effect becomes a nice piece of foreshadowing for Jenchae's telepathic power; it all came together nicely.
* The mindscape green screen stuff is also looking good: dark and starry and mysterious.
* Finally, I was personally excited to see the orange, cityscape twilight of Akhté's big window. I'm not a very visual person, but this was one of the strong visual images I've ever since the book (it's in the book), and it's looking exactly as I pictured it. Lovely!
Real Life
In RL, things are finally slowing down a little--and will stay that way for about three weeks before speeding up again. I got my welcome albums for the kids in Haiti sent off, which is a huge load off my mind. I've been putting that off for months.
I now have confirmed teaching appointments for three classes in the fall, none of which, of course, are at my first-choice school, which I'm still waiting on. If I get in there, I'll be teaching four, which will kill me, but at least the money will be welcome. Better rest up while I can.
