Last night I started working on Color Correction for the movie.
I feel like I’ve been waiting for a long time to get started with this process. In order to do it, I had to bone up on my Apple Color skills, and watch a few video tutorials. It’s a really great program, and it helps to give an interesting and stylized look to the film.
I got one scene done, after tweaking with Final Cut Pro, and trying to get Color to work with each other. Once I figured that out, I got the first scene done, then decided to call it a night.
I watched the news, and then attempted to go to sleep. I couldn’t fall asleep whatsoever… and I knew why. With a deadline approaching to finish this movie, I felt like I didn’t get enough work done. So at about 10 to Midnight I got up and went back to work.
It took me an hour to get the next scene done, and I was pretty excited about it.
The interesting thing about Color Correction, is when you start you think “This clip looks pretty good…” then you start to do some color correction or color grading on it, and you don’t think you’ve done a lot, but if you shut off those changes, it’s like “Woah… the original looks like crap.” – So I think that’s one of the reasons I like it… it is fun, and it’s pretty “magical” too.
Plus, once you do one clip… you just copy and paste to the rest. So there’s a chance I could be done with this a lot sooner then I thought.
I finally got all the elements to Mark Heleniak at Earmark Studios, who will be doing the audio sweetening on the whole movie. I gave a pretty good attempt at the audio, and it sounded pretty decent… but I’m not set up for audio clean up, and so I missed a lot of things that I shouldn’t have. So Mark is working really hard to do a great job of the audio and give me and my cast a crew something we can all be proud of. So I’m pretty glad to have Mark on board, he’s a talented guy and he’s devoted to what he does.
One week from tomorrow, I gave myself a deadline that the movie has to be done…
It’s close, I don’t know how realistic that is going to be. The Color Grading and Audio is the least of my worries, I still need to get a title sequence put together, I need to lay out the music, and I need make sure I didn’t forget or miss anything. So it’s either totally unrealistic, or it’s going to be cutting it close at the last minute.
We’ll see what happens…
