One Month to Go!

I've faded on my online activity goals but I've stayed very busy on Gunderson.   I think I'm still on for a mid December release as I've shot all the scenes and am knee deep in the sound effects and music.  A couple of recent notes on this production:

Always check early in the process to make sure your characters have eyebrows.  Especially your main character who is in every freaking scene...Otherwise you might find yourself having to reshoot every freaking scene.  Alas, it's all good as I used the opportunity to export in a higher resolution and have been (and will continue to) fixing various little issues as I notice them.

MY NLE is not making me happy.  It bogged down completely with all the sound effects and video files so I had to chop the project up into three pieces and even then it's pretty laggy.  Also having a super weird issue with a train tunnel scene.  Looks fine exported out of Iclone but jutters and looks low res inside the NLE.  Different file formats, reshot the scene multiple times.  Just not sure what the problem is but I've spent too much time on it and will likely just have to live with it.

In the past adding music to my videos has been a simple and rewarding process.  On this project however there is a lot of dialog which doesn't leave a lot of space for music.  I'm playing around with options and even creating a few simple things of my own (trying to quickly learn garageband and wishing I hadn't lapsed on my FL Studio experience).

And speaking of a lot of dialog....it's probably too much dialog.  Worked pretty well in a script that I enjoyed writing but may not work on screen as well.  A lot of it is necessary in getting the story to the finish line in 15 minutes but the "show don't tell" adage is echoing in my brain as I reach the deadline.  Probably a lesson learned.  If I did the project over I think I would do it in 3 separate chapters allowing more time to tell the story visually.  Could I complete three chapters?  Eh.

The End is barreling down on me!