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Who is working on a film? Some good advice I got a long time ago is, do something every day for your film no matter how small it is, even if it's just a phone call. If you do this you will eventually finish your film. It works!

So here is your chance to finish your film. Post here daily with what you have done!
 
I color coded all of the scenes I've finished the rough cut on my project Average Joe. I made plans to have folks over to edit on it as well. Beer and Cuts...good times.
 
Took all my weak scenes in my current screenplay and made a separate document, where I've been slicing, dicing, and refining. I mused on my main character, trying to further develop his psyche, and also defined the other two major characters.

I rewrote a sketch for the Poke Show, which I plan to film on Saturday. It's much better now, LOL.

I compiled screen-grabs from another sketch (which I'm hoping I can also use in the Poke Show) so I can go and take pictures to use as a background for the greenscreen. I forgot that greenscreens require pre-planning. Oops. Now, it's a matter of figuring it out after the fact. I kinda like it that way though- I feel like MacGuyver when I pull it off.
 
Worked a little bit on a feature screenplay last night for the first time. Have 3 short scripts sitting on my shelf waiting to get shot. Almost on a whim, I went and shot a documentary, on HDV, and I just am upgrading my system to handle it, so hopefully I'll have that cut together soon. I think its a good story though.
 
Shot greenscreen tests in anticipation of a Saturday shoot.

Got permission from my boss to shoot his office for a different sketch.

I've isolated my weak pages from my main screenplay, and I've been trying to fix them... also did more research on the subject, and found a few videos with similar concepts... learned from their mistakes, I hope.
 
Finally spoke with the song artist about the music video/title track and playing one of the roles.

Still daydreaming through the sequence in preperation for the second rewrite.

Planned the still photo shoot for storyboarding and production planning, but final scheduling is still pending script rewrite and shot list.
 
do you have any good how to use tutorials for blender (other than the obvious ones from their site)? Last time I used any 3d software and understood how it worked was Specular Infini-D.
 
knightly said:
do you have any good how to use tutorials for blender (other than the obvious ones from their site)? Last time I used any 3d software and understood how it worked was Specular Infini-D.
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http://www.blender.org/tutorials-help/tutorials/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D

http://www.blendernation.com/tutorials/

http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/

http://www.tutorialguide.net/3d_software/blender/

http://www.cgtutorials.com/c3/Blender/newest

There are tons of them. That's the beauty of open-source. There is a huge community out there. :)

And don't feel bad. The last time I did any 3D modeling and animation was with 3D Studio 2.0 on a 386SX with a math co-processor. I know all of the concepts intimately since I work with a graphics hardware company but I am horribly out of practice.
 
Alright.

Yesterday, I filmed a sketch by myself (with a little help from Amanda), capturing and editing as I went. It's pretty effective, because you know if it's working as you go.. the problem was I was using a greenscreen (I dunno why either- I should'a just found a blank wall) and I white balanced wrong (apparently).
So when I uploaded the clips into Chromanator, I wasn't getting clean chroma keying.... but thankfully, I discovered "Hue Shift", which allowed me to fix it. Phew.

Edited all through the night, rendering and re-rendering... the audio was a problem, but I let it be.

Also, because my lighting kit is meant for still photography, it's not easy to light a green screen, and weird elements and artifacts were popping up. I've discovered that making a clip black and white improves the quality of the final greenscreen (or at least hides the shittiness), so I worked that idea into the script, with a film noir-ish style.

Today, I went through my second project for the weekend (half assembled, half shot) and figured out the shots I needed to re-do, and the rest of the stuff we needed to get... pretty easy. I'm about to call Bill, and then go film said rest of movie.

I love this job.
 
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