Pulling Back the Curtain
Tomorrow is going to be my “fine cut” screening of The Lightcrafter. What it will actually end up being is more of a rough cut with no audio, and only about half of the shots finished or present. And finally, after way too much fretting… I am fine with this. For now at least. There is still much to be done. Hopefully I will be able to get the public screening version substantially closer to my vision, but I imagine that I will still need quite a bit of time to film some of the more complex shots, fine tune the Swordmaster sequence, and work on audio.
Yesterday some significant progress was made — all the remaining bedroom scene shots are done! There’s a chance that I might refilm one or two shots somewhere down the line, but at least the entire beginning and ending scenes are present.
Right now I’m editing… trying to fix up as many shots as I can before the screening, but it seems that there will be quite a bit of absent light painting, so if you see any actors interacting with nothing, that’ll be why.
Overall, I’m proud of what I’ve been able to do, but at the same time really do wish that I wasn’t quite as ambitious with this. Still, no better time than the present to learn from mistakes.
it’s all a process, right? we’re supposed to grow wiser from this experience either way, i think. the fact that you’re learning things about what you’re capable of and what you wish to achieve says to me that this project was completely successful. if you can’t walk away from a project with a new understanding of yourself, to whatever degree, then you probably weren’t pushing yourself hard enough to begin with. i personally am impressed with everything you’ve shot for this year, and will be happy to assist you over the summer on this.
just let me know!
farcha08 said this on May 29, 2009 at 7:01 am