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Very nearly done with post production. Been a long hard bit of work, but we are almost there!
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| Very handy software! |
[08 Feb 2005|10:57pm] |
I was searching about tonight to see if I could find a converter to take AVI Type 2 video files into Avid OMF and sure enough there is such a piece of software. Cheap at only US/E$99 to register, this handy utility from Focus is the DV File Converter v1.5. It's specifically for DV and will do a lossless conversion from one format to the other. Just what we were looking for! It only runs on Windows, but that's OK. We can load in the selects and process them and hand them off on DVD discs. How cool is that?
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| First location shoot. |
[08 Jan 2005|11:29pm] |
Nearly 6 60-minute miniDV tapes and 65GB of data later we are now looking back on our first location shoot as a seriously good experience. What a fantastic crew to be working with and a big "thank you!" to the weather for giving us a breather in the remarkably wet 'summer' we seem to be having.
Now it's time to archive and prep our footage to cut something together.
Stay tuned.
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| Screen Test update |
[24 Nov 2004|08:27am] |
The screen test has been edited together and is looking pretty sharp. Thanks to Ben's fantastic storyboards it was a breeze to go through all our footage and put together our test scene. There's a load of post work to do to the shots now that we have them all identified and marked with colour grading and making them work as day-for-night.
There are a number of things which I think we would do differently knowing what we know now, but I think the only way to gain the experience we have is by just going and doing it. I am positive that when we do our principle photography work in another 5 weeks that we will be making some damn fine material.
In the meantime please be patient as we slog through a little roto work and wait to hear how the audio comes together.
Oh - and for the record. Final Cut Pro rocks.
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| Screen Test! |
[14 Nov 2004|03:54pm] |
On Saturday we all went out to a lonely road to do a screen test. We wanted to test out all the equipment and try shooting day for night (to be tweaked in post afterwards), shooting evening for night, and shooting at night with lights. We shot one complete scene and bits of others, which was about five pages of the script, or about 23 different camera setups.
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| Low light tests |
[09 Nov 2004|07:00am] |
Here are a few images we produced to see how little light we could use to get a decent image on the Canon XL-2. Some more tests are needed, but we are getting a sense of just how little light we can get away with having.
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| Day for night. |
[04 Nov 2004|12:23am] |
Here is a quick test I did this evening at around 7:30pm looking out
over our deck. I had to wait till dusk as the sun comes streaming down
until the very last moment at the front of our house.
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| Our Film... |
[02 Nov 2004|06:59am] |
Accidents happen: a dark night, a long drive, roads can be dangerous. When two friends break down on a dark stretch of rural New Zealand road they hope they're in for an uneventful night.
The night has other ideas...
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