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That last post was rather bitter. And while I am a bit bitter, it's stupid to focus on that. So here is the important stuff:
The good: Last night was my first viewing since I turned it in two weeks ago, and The Grace of Tears stood as a very strong entry in my eyes. The acting is fabulous -- it was a pleasure to work with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jhitchin and datavore. I was able to make good use of nonverbal interaction, instead of just talking heads. I was only forced to use a less-than-perfect clip in order to work around bad takes a handful of times. The editing is smooth and mostly unobtrusive. We were aiming for a quieter, more subtle movie, and I think we succeeded admirably. The subject material makes it slightly challenging, but not in an incomprehensible way. I think I can claim that I am a filmmaker now without feeling like a hopeless poseur.
The less than good: Intriguingly, nothing jumped out at me as woefully needing fixing. Most of the problems I did see were due to it being a 48 hour film, not because of fundamental issues with our movie-making process. Now that the standard room-tone audio issues are resolved, we need to work more on keeping the mic a consistent distance from people between different takes. I still need to master the art of the well-balanced montage. I need to buy more instrument voices for my composer. I'm still only a mediocre camera operator, with too much footage shaky and too little of it artistically interesting. I need to bring the old dolly-ne-wheelchair back out and experiment with it some more -- my shoots are too static, and I just can't walk smoothly enough to get lengthy dolly shots even with modern image stabilization.
Seeing the darn thing: I need to set up a screening party locally. Would sometime this coming weekend be good for people? I have a real media encode ready to be put up on the web, and the Midgard Studios page has a page ready to receive it. I'll get that up soon, honest. October 13 is the next Open Screening at 911 Media Arts Center, 8pm. I'll take TGoT down for that; people are welcome to come along and see what the response is like. (The standard open screening caveats apply.) The contest people claim they are putting together a DVD of all the winners. I'll do my best to get copies for everyone who helped out who wants one.
The future: I think TGoT is our first piece worthy of being submitted to film festivals as a stand-alone short piece. I'm going to be working withxiadyn to redo the scoring and really nail the feeling I was going for. The white-out torture sequences will be redone to make them much more abstract and closer to the original idea. With a few small changes like that, I think TGoT has an excellent chance of being accepted somewhere. That means IMDb credits for the cast and crew.
TGoT kind of kicks ass. Thank you to everyone who helped out in one way or another. I'm still not sure why you put up with any of it, but this certainly wouldn't happen without you.
The good: Last night was my first viewing since I turned it in two weeks ago, and The Grace of Tears stood as a very strong entry in my eyes. The acting is fabulous -- it was a pleasure to work with
jhitchin and datavore. I was able to make good use of nonverbal interaction, instead of just talking heads. I was only forced to use a less-than-perfect clip in order to work around bad takes a handful of times. The editing is smooth and mostly unobtrusive. We were aiming for a quieter, more subtle movie, and I think we succeeded admirably. The subject material makes it slightly challenging, but not in an incomprehensible way. I think I can claim that I am a filmmaker now without feeling like a hopeless poseur.The less than good: Intriguingly, nothing jumped out at me as woefully needing fixing. Most of the problems I did see were due to it being a 48 hour film, not because of fundamental issues with our movie-making process. Now that the standard room-tone audio issues are resolved, we need to work more on keeping the mic a consistent distance from people between different takes. I still need to master the art of the well-balanced montage. I need to buy more instrument voices for my composer. I'm still only a mediocre camera operator, with too much footage shaky and too little of it artistically interesting. I need to bring the old dolly-ne-wheelchair back out and experiment with it some more -- my shoots are too static, and I just can't walk smoothly enough to get lengthy dolly shots even with modern image stabilization.
Seeing the darn thing: I need to set up a screening party locally. Would sometime this coming weekend be good for people? I have a real media encode ready to be put up on the web, and the Midgard Studios page has a page ready to receive it. I'll get that up soon, honest. October 13 is the next Open Screening at 911 Media Arts Center, 8pm. I'll take TGoT down for that; people are welcome to come along and see what the response is like. (The standard open screening caveats apply.) The contest people claim they are putting together a DVD of all the winners. I'll do my best to get copies for everyone who helped out who wants one.
The future: I think TGoT is our first piece worthy of being submitted to film festivals as a stand-alone short piece. I'm going to be working with
xiadyn to redo the scoring and really nail the feeling I was going for. The white-out torture sequences will be redone to make them much more abstract and closer to the original idea. With a few small changes like that, I think TGoT has an excellent chance of being accepted somewhere. That means IMDb credits for the cast and crew.TGoT kind of kicks ass. Thank you to everyone who helped out in one way or another. I'm still not sure why you put up with any of it, but this certainly wouldn't happen without you.
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This weekend's bad for me