Screening Prep

Posters are printed- Ran with original design, so not to mess with the readability of the figures.

Also hammered out a fire animation for the Screening intro animation (in about an hour or so, not great but hopefully usable.)

Business Cards are being printed at the moment, thanks to Instant Print and Copy at Springwood for their help. Images to come.

Last day of film making

Well, It's 5.25 am and I'm still at uni waiting for the render to finish for the film. A long-time-to-discover corrupted file was stopping the film mid render and after several attempts including a long hour or two moving scene files around from hard drive to hard drive and then relinking the files to the premier doc, and then re rendering the corrupted scenes again took forever. The render just finished so Id better check it so I can whack it into Quicktime to prep for Mastering.

I think I will go home and delegate the mastering. I'm only doing stuff like this at the last minute because the schedule was blown out. But hey, we're done. I am sad that I couldn't use the music that Ben was kind enough to spend time on for me. The film ended up being longer than the animatic, even after cutting some shots or scraping altogether. I couldn't manage to edit the film into the dramatic beats of the music so I decided to use the public domain Scott Joplin music and the Rabbitohs march. It works ok. I'm actually wanting to use Ben's music for part of my demo reel or even a superhero piece which I think will be perfect for it. It's really epic-sounding and I love the layers he created. It's a same I didn't have all the animation in time for him to time music to, It's was hard for him when only my stuff was complete. Either way, I already had the credits rendered so I left Ben's name in there anyway.

Anyways, I want to go home and have something to eat and sleep. I now have the impossible task of getting my folio done before Wednesday so I can write it to DVD for Thursday. Fingers crossed. And I'm really worried I am suppose to have a 3-4 page essay in to student admin by 10am today but because I was compositing and editing all weekend, I couldn't get that done either. Now I'm just over typing my thoughts because I'm sleepy...see? I'm still doing it :P
It's 6am now and I'm just waiting for the .DV file to finish for mastering. I reviewed the film, there's nothing I can do in regard to inconsistencies, I tried to cover up hook up errors by re-inserting title cards that I planned on taking out. And maybe I'm just sick of looking at it but there is a heap of stuff I've done in compositing that I don't think look that fantastic once rendered. I think it looked better blurry and rougher than the final thing. Anyways....

Credits rough

Taking forever to render on my machine at home, but this is the rough render.