We Have A Maestro

Wed, 13 May 2009 08:49:31 > Post-production

After a six week search we have come to an agreement with a very talented composer who will be writing the music for the film.  In the end there were over fifty applicants and the choice was not an easy one.  Thank you very much to everyone who was interested and we apologise that we couldn't personally let everyone know about the d...

Composers

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:09:52 > Post-production

We've started the search for the right composer and have had a great response so far.  About forty composers have shown their interest and we are in the process of short listing these.  We are aiming to make our decision by the end of the month so that, come May, we have three streams of post production working concurrently - editin...

Dave sharpens his knife

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:35:56 > Post-production

Dave and I had a handover meeting late last week where we watched my cut of the first forty five minutes of the film after which Dave, in tears, gave me a standing ovation . . . or something like that . . . well, he liked it . . . most of it anyway, and he had a few suggestions on how we could make it even better (impossible, surely).&nb...

Cut the crap

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:45:43 > Post-production

That's what I've been doing over the past couple of days. 

It's always heart breaking to film shots that you want to look bad.  We filmed several actors as news reporters doing on location pieces to camera circa 1978 and this meant bad framing, bad little zooms and sticky pans (as in panning the camera).  Dave had to be ...

The end is near

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:17:08 > Post-production

That's only because we've skipped the middle.  Let me explain:

I've just rough cut the end of the film together.  So currently I have most of act one and a good deal of act three in a rough cut form. 

What I've just cut together is the denoument, right after the climax, where we learn our characters ...

Loading the flashback

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:49:25 > Post-production

I loaded all the footage from filming day 17 onto the hard drives.   Now it's sitting ready to be cut together.  At first glance it looks very promising.  Sam and Hannah's performance is going to cut together nicely.  A big thanks to Sam who was so professional on the day, and took good care of Hannah, even though he ...

Cutting cutting cutting

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:31:26 > Post-production

We're well on our way of getting the first block cut of the film done.  At the moment it's about getting the pace right so that there is a consistency in the film which is displaced where we want the adrenalin to kick in.  The fairly daring style we incorporated during principle photography is holding up very nicely and the dialogue...