DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (Page 8 of 16)

Wrapped on my show yesterday.

Got tasked last minute with an entire sequence for the finale of a favorite TV show, so apologies for blowing the deadline. Had planned on having a day off in, um, April.

Everything's shot, just need to sort and wrap it up in a neat little package. Should be online tonight.

Teague,

I shot half my scenes today (S1, the McD's scene and I got all my through the windshield/10-seconds of silence bits). Before I finish, I have a question: I know my first scene and the McDonald's scene are supposed to take place while the car is parked, but what about the other scenes? You didn't specify which scenes are meant to occur while driving, and which aren't. Sorry to nitpick, but I didn't want to proceed until I knew precisely what you wanted/needed. Also, it's been raining/storming in Texas off and on for a couple days now, so I was unable to shoot everything in one go.

Am off to do my remaining shooting now -- three (!) people are helping.  It's like I have a film crew. Ideally, I won't cough up a lung while on camera, but you can cut that out, right?

Okay, I've wrapped.  I'll try to get it all uploaded this evening, but, if not, definitely during Sunday.

Also, when I said above It's like I have a film crew, I was mistaken. It wasn't like I had a film crew, I had a film crew who just happen to be a family.

I wish I'd had the presence of mind to video mother, father and daughter while they discussed among themselves depth of field and lens choice and exposure, and figured out and rehearsed how to start a shot looking at me inside the car and end it passing over my shoulder looking at a view, having gone smoothly outside, down a four-foot drop, over a railing and past tourists. Or later, being carefully directed to try that one more time, but maybe with more emphasis on this, while my lines are on a cue card being held out of shot for checking between takes.  It's like I was Marlon Brando or someone.

Bloody brilliant, and much better than I could ever have managed by myself, or even just with my wife, due principally to her not having six hands and three brains.

By the way, Teague, if I were to upload everything I have, it would be around 12GB.  Is that a problem for you, server- or bandwidth-wise?

I'm planning to pare it down and organize it according to your suggestions anyway, but I'm still pretty fluey, and it's tiring, so I may not get it as cleaned-up as I'd like.  I don' t know what kind of internet plan you're on, but if it's anything like the kind of cell-phone plans you have in the States, I don't want to be blowing your caps or burning your money more than necessary.

Sure, I'll try.  I have Mac, Windows and Linux systems around the house, with at least what they come with by default, but most of my pro software is for audio and composing (Cubase, Sibelius) not video editing as such.

Oh, wait, I do have Handbrake installed, which I use to rip DVDs to my iPod, and I'm sure it has a pile of format conversion options.

Converting your selects to h.264 or x264 (same-ish thing without getting into it) around 85% quality will give you a lot of space savings and hold up the quality pretty well.

Having now completed the arduous process of filming my stuff, I believe I am now more than qualified to provide valuable notes on my contribution, despite not having seen the whole script.

I believe my 'speaking in tongues' scene should have sub-titles: first, Japanese, then Greek, then Klingon, then Dingbats. The last sub-title should be "Oh, ho! Let's go!"

I believe the scene where I solve the Rubik's cube in under seven minutes (apart from that one corner, which doesn't count anyway) should be left uncut, so as to raise the project from merely artistic to almost wikipedian.

The inexplicably unasked-for shot where I'm riding on the roof of a blazing car as it careens down a hill should clearly be the last of the movie. Although I disagree, I would understand your decision to cut before we hit the ice cream van.

I think the credits should be done in the style of 'Dallas', only with more Hagman.

I hope this helps.

Oh, and for everyone else who hasn't read the script either: spoilers!

Pretty sure it's impossible to solve a Rubik's Cube except for one corner. You'd have to leave two corners unsolved, at least. Unless you fucked up your cube.