The Lightcrafter

Today has been a relieving if not entirely productive (so far) day. I talked with Sally about the state of things and it relaxed me a bit — although it also invigorated new hopes in me that if I can get the current structure completed nicely for the week 9 fine cut, I might be able to use week 10 to do a large amount of sound design tweaks and maybe, just maybe putting the visually ridiculous second half of the sword fight back into the movie if editing doesn’t take as long as I’ve feared. I’ve poured so much time into shooting material for it, and James has given up plenty of his own as well, that I would feel bad not getting it in there. It’s also probably going to look really cool.

Mostly I spent the day scrambling about to prepare for an impromptu change of future plans. I hope to get an internship through Dave Cramton and Peter Randlette working in the new and amazing CCAM studio in the library. I wrote up my application, letter of interest, and résumé and got it all taken care of super fast. I’m informally meeting up with Dave on Friday to chat about it some. I have high hopes about this — this is the perfect opportunity to spend my final year.

But anyways, Lightcrafter. I talked with Tommy today and through testing footage on a different monitor, I found out that the background detail actually is there, and that my monitor just needs some serious recalibration such that I can see it. Yay! That means no reshoots. Thank God. (Also thank God for being able to find replacement flashlight bulbs that work! That means I now have to reshoot some things when the flashlight was broken. But still a big yay overall!)

There’s a big shoot tomorrow that will hopefully end The Trapmaker’s portion of the project. I don’t have anyone assisting me aside from Harmony yet, but I think we might be able to do OK. Getting that taken care of will be a huge relief. In fact, once those shots are taken care of, I just have to get one head shot of Harmony as the Light Spirit and a few arm close-ups and then all the characters aside from me will be wrapped up. The remaining stuff of me is still daunting as I haven’t focused on it in a couple weeks, but… it is manageable! There’s still “light” for this project! It… could… work!

With all that taken care of, I need to get to some shooting now, and probably some editing as well. Busy day. And did I mention it was my birthday?

~ by Sean Parker on May 20, 2009.