Film Contest Update #3

T minus 37 hours, 13 minutes

Okay, time to write this thing. I sure hope it makes sense on video... but for once I already have a title chosen: Pencils Down.

Film Contest Update #4

T minus 31 hours, 50 minutes

Script is written. Quite short, really, but all this idea will bear. Off to the hardware store now, and people arriving soon.

Film Contest Update #5

Dinner break. Principal photography is all done except the voiceover recording and closeups on the computer monitor. Most people wouldn't consider VO recording to be photography, but my camera/shotgun mic combination remains the best audio recording system I have access to.

Film Contest Update #6

T minus 18 hours, 42 minutes

All the filming is done. The tape is now encoding, taking advantage of Premiere Pro's 'scene detect' feature. I want to bear its children. It does what used to take me about 150% of realtime tape length, parsing out takes into seperate files.

As short as our entry is this year, we're sitting very pretty as far as time goes. I'm less certain about the content, but everyone else seemed to like it...