Post-Production

• Go the film back from the lab yesterday and they said everything seems good with it - bearing in mind though that it's not until a telecine is done that this can really be known - but it seemed okay just from the developing viewpoint

• As the film is negative it's hard to make too much from it - but it appears to be clearly focused with a good image on it

• We're hunting around now for a good telecine for 250 feet of film - where they're not going to try and make us pay for a whole hour for it!

• The composer Dave Lennon - also sent me a preliminary recording of some music to accompany the reading of the poem - and it sounded great - very rich and moody! - he's just going to wait till he's got the final cut of it to work on

• To cut a long story short (again!) we got the film telecined at BEEPS for free! - given that it was also a camera test they decided to just run it through for us - thank you to BEEPS for their generosity

• The final cut was finished about two weeks ago and the runing time is about 2mins 44 - including credits - it's a short short film!

• A very moody and lush score has been done by David Lennon and the final grading is being done this week by David Rusanow - amongst other things that will be done is the shaft of light will be changed to a whitish/blue colour - much like smoke appears in the bush - and the shaft will be composited into one shot where we just couldn't get it because of the air conditioning

• The film will be premiering on Wednesday September the 24th as a curtain raiser to In My Image

• Since it is such a short film I will look into making it available for viewing over the web as well at some time - and it will be included on the In My Image DVD

• Below are some ungraded stills from the actual film - as opposed to the digital stills we took on set which appear above.

   

   

• The grading is almost finished - and here are a few preliminary examples:
  
  
   

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