One Down

After eight days of absence I am finally back to my blog. The reason behind my absence is simply that I have been trying to organize all the projects that I had thought were due early in the coming week. Funny story is that the deadlines got switched on me again so Dodgeball is now pushed back to mid-March, which is absolutely fantastic. That still left the Sweethearts video, which is still due on Tuesday. The good news is that the Sweethearts video is extremely close to being done, after 9 hours of filming/editing and another three hours of audio work. Skocko seemed to like it even though it still needs work.

As a learning experience this did not disappoint; It would have been impossible not to learn anything from this. The most important lesson is took take multiple takes of every scene, regardless of how well you think the first turned out, failing that an alternate angle would work, simply to make editing easier. One of less important lessons is that a rack focus is much easier when some one else is controlling the focus, it simple gives you a precision that is near impossible to achieve while watching what you are recording. Lastly plan B is your best friend, because if something goes wrong you have something to fall back on rather than trying to come up with something on the spot.

Thanks to all who volunteered. Special thanks to Steven Moyer, Cody R, Phillip Behnam, Christian Lim, the other actors, Mr. Lourey, and of course Skocko for making this possible.

Note: I will post the video as soon as it is done.

Update: Stabilizing every frame manually is just wonderful.

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