Thank God it’s Back!
The Internet at my house is back up. I’m not sure how it broke, or what was wrong with it, but the Internet company had to send a signal through to fix it. When you’re someone like me, losing Internet is one of the worst things that can happen. Seriously, it was really bad yesterday. Last night, I’m sitting there messing with it and a couple times in the middle of it I thought to myself “I can fix this, I just need to look it up on the inter- …..O yeah.”
I have a lot to talk about today. Mainly, I want to talk about the new cut of Do Nice Guys Finish Last. The way me and Gabe have been working on this is that he gives me the cut, I make notes on it, then hand them back to him to make the changes or corrections. We are currently on draft number 4, soon to be on 5. I have the 4th cut with notes on it all ready for him. Once we have a final cut, we’ll do some color correction, and then transitions. Transitioning from 1 scene to another is a big deal for this short film. There are some scenes that make huge jumps in time in the same setting. The only way to show that jump of time is through a transition. It if goes from a straight cut, people are left sitting there thinking “What the hell just happened?” I’m going to be doing some research on transitions later on this week. I showed Do Nice Guys Finish Last to someone besides me and Gabe yesterday. I was very happy to see that she laughed at all the right times. She actually made a comment that really just pin pointed what I was going for. She said “It was really funny, but it’s kind of true.” That is exactly what I was looking for with this short film. I wanted people to watch it and not only laugh because it was funny, but laugh because it was true. Almost like a George Carlin stand up act. What he says is hysterical, but the main reason it’s so hysterical is because it’s sort of true. That’s what I was looking for. I think maybe Do Nice Guys Finish Last is going to be better then I originally thought. The audio and lighting are already all a step above everything else we’ve done. I’m really looking forward to this being done and I can’t wait to start sending it to festivals.
On to the Project X news. I got a script from the script writer last night. I haven’t read it yet. Something went wrong with the file format so I can’t exactly open it just yet. But it’s awesome that I got it. I should be getting another copy of it sometime today or tonight. If this works out, this will be the first time I’ve directed something that someone else has written. Actually, that’s not true. I’ve directed one other thing that someone else wrote, but nothing really came of it. So, it doesn’t really count.
I’m still waiting to hear back from 3 other festivals. I’m getting a little nervous. The screening dates for those are pretty close already. I figured I would have gotten some sort of rejection or acceptance letter by now. I suppose if the film festival happens and my short film doesn’t play there, then it was rejected.
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