Weekly Progress - October 6th, 2007
Been a good week. Met with the editor on Tuesday, and realized that I had about 58 effects shots done! Some of those need to be redone when its time to get to the Giacomo Fog shots, but that’s just a couple. Once we got those laid in, we went about tightening up the Dungeon Painting scene and cut out around 20 seconds. That was the one part of the movie that was really bugging me, as it had been really slow. It sings now, baby.
Finally started making progress on the Dungeon Painting section of the flying carpet sequence. I was really please with how the takeoff looked, especially considering that we weren’t sure how to shoot it. Before the shoot, I had intricately planned out how to do all the flying carpet shots, but on the day it turned out that my plans weren’t going to work, so I had to improvise on the set, while under a time crunch. We really had no idea how to do the takeoff, and I just wasn’t sure about how well what we did was going to work. But now that I’ve composited it, I’m really happy with it. I’ve since finished off a couple more shots in that sequence, and it’s looking really nice.
Other than that, I’ve been busy in my producer role. The cut is finally ready for the audio departments (3 weeks before we screen), so I had to prep DVDs to get out to the mixer and composer. My friend Travis Fell agreed to help me out by creating the backgrounds for most of the dungeon scene, so that all I’ll have to do is approve and composite them. It took a little bit of time to get him the files he needed to do this, but hopefully it will save me a day or two of work.
Really getting into the crunch now. Jim should be done with Giacomo by Monday. Hopefully I can get the dungeon/carpet stuff done this week.