We're getting down to the wire, folks. As of this coming Tuesday, we have five weeks left to finish up editing so I can get the sound fixed up, burn DVDs and upload it to WithoutABox (a festival submission website) Also I need a title, I need to create a Press Kit (this super important thing I just found out about recently) Create some posters, get this guy Christine knows to remaster the tracks she's made, create some sort of contractual agreement form so the people I'm paying can't withhold their work for more money (not that I think any of them would). OH SHIT! and I need to get a website built!
Barf
I'm certain there are other things I'll find out about at the last minute, but that just adds to the mystery.
Five weeks
Five
Wish me luck, yall.
also if you have title ideas I want to hear them.
-Kevin
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Post Strangeness
We're still in post production, Julia and I meet once a week via Skype to discuss progress, and she sends me the latest project files. We have about ten or fifteen pretty solid minutes down so far, but still no title.
A title is necessary for me to begin working on all the KickStarter incentives and festival applications, but we just can't come up with one we like. It needs to explain the past and the message without making it strictly about Binghamton. Although it also needs to avoid implying I filmed in multiple towns. If any of you have ideas, hit me up please.
Having someone else do my editing feels very strange, I know there's a lot of work to be done, but how much of it can I do? My job has changed from working with the actual manipulation of sound and image to working with unknowns like festivals, legalities, planning for what I'll do when the documentary is screenable. If I'm being honest, I'm not getting much work done, and I haven't since Julia agreed to edit for me...
Well that's all I've got for now, folks. Thanks for sticking around and supporting me.
-Kevin
A title is necessary for me to begin working on all the KickStarter incentives and festival applications, but we just can't come up with one we like. It needs to explain the past and the message without making it strictly about Binghamton. Although it also needs to avoid implying I filmed in multiple towns. If any of you have ideas, hit me up please.
Having someone else do my editing feels very strange, I know there's a lot of work to be done, but how much of it can I do? My job has changed from working with the actual manipulation of sound and image to working with unknowns like festivals, legalities, planning for what I'll do when the documentary is screenable. If I'm being honest, I'm not getting much work done, and I haven't since Julia agreed to edit for me...
Well that's all I've got for now, folks. Thanks for sticking around and supporting me.
-Kevin
Friday, August 16, 2013
Another Unknown
Yesterday I conducted the absolute last interview of the whole production process for this documentary.
..
..... Now what do I do?
Julia is doing a great job of editing, we are working remotely, so I sent her an external hard drive with all of my footage up to when i sent it, and have been shuttling two 32 gb thumb drives back and forth via USPS since then. We meet via skype every Friday at 9:00Pm, and talk about the progress for the week, which is when she uploads her current final cut pro project file to Google Drive, so I can load it on my computer since I have an identically organized external hard drive.
You know.. just in case you wanted to know how remote editing collaboration works.
Christine is still doing a good job with the music, and we are going to get that remastered for a few hundred dollars by someone she has worked with before. on top of a full time job, She just spent over 30 (maybe 50) hours in the studio with her band The Jean Jackets, recording their new double-album which consists of I believe 24 songs. Which I'm excited to hear.
Now my job is to begin applying to festivals and generating interest amongst potential distributors. Which means i need to learn what that means, what that entails, and figure out how to do it as a first-time filmmaker whose film is still in progress.
I'm sure I'm forgetting / don't know something about my current task set, but that's how I see it for now.
Oh and I'm going to be making an animation of a map of Binghamton being sketched. this will allow Julia and I to create graphics that place wherever footage is happening in geographical relation to where other scenes have occurred.. That should take forever.
That's all for now.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but all I had to say was "still filming"
-Kevin
..
..... Now what do I do?
Julia is doing a great job of editing, we are working remotely, so I sent her an external hard drive with all of my footage up to when i sent it, and have been shuttling two 32 gb thumb drives back and forth via USPS since then. We meet via skype every Friday at 9:00Pm, and talk about the progress for the week, which is when she uploads her current final cut pro project file to Google Drive, so I can load it on my computer since I have an identically organized external hard drive.
You know.. just in case you wanted to know how remote editing collaboration works.
Christine is still doing a good job with the music, and we are going to get that remastered for a few hundred dollars by someone she has worked with before. on top of a full time job, She just spent over 30 (maybe 50) hours in the studio with her band The Jean Jackets, recording their new double-album which consists of I believe 24 songs. Which I'm excited to hear.
Now my job is to begin applying to festivals and generating interest amongst potential distributors. Which means i need to learn what that means, what that entails, and figure out how to do it as a first-time filmmaker whose film is still in progress.
I'm sure I'm forgetting / don't know something about my current task set, but that's how I see it for now.
Oh and I'm going to be making an animation of a map of Binghamton being sketched. this will allow Julia and I to create graphics that place wherever footage is happening in geographical relation to where other scenes have occurred.. That should take forever.
That's all for now.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but all I had to say was "still filming"
-Kevin
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Being an Adult
Making Tough Decisions...
that's the barrier between youth and adulthood, isn't it?Well I didn't get the production assistant position, and I passed up the opportunity to work on that web series due to scheduling restrictions, but I have made the professional move to commission an editor for my documentary. Julia Jin, a fellow BU alumn will be remotely collaborating with me on the editing process.
I turned to the linkedin community for advice on how to transfer footage to her, since I'll still be shooting throughout the summer, and I got plenty of responses, most leading to the conclusion that I would need to ship Ms. Jin an external Hard Drive (which she received today), and send subsequent thumb-drives.
Suddenly life is clearer and I can enjoy filming again. The deadline is less frightening, even a little exciting again.
More updates to come.
-Kevin
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