Not Much Progress
Well, even though I worked on the film from 6:30-10:15, I didn't get to Scene 6, and I didn't even finish Scene 5. Instead, after watching all of the completed renders, I decided to scrap the film look I'd been using for "Mother In-Law Zombie" and use another, similar one. Everything in the first set of renders just looked too washed out and flat. The new look has deeper blacks, and better color.
As a result of changing the look, I had to go back into each scene to make sure that the color correction on all shots still looked good. Some shots required minor tweaking. I also put a noise reduction on a bunch of shots in Scene 3 after noticing that the gamma boosts I'd applied created too much grain.
Regardless, it seems to look great now, and it also seems that this new film look will allow me to work more quickly, because it is more flattering to the lighting and color scheme we used in this section of the film. As a result, I won't have to spend so long making each shot look good.
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I'm thinking of posting "before and after" stills from the film. Just so everyone can get a sense of what the color correcting is actually accomplishing, and so everyone can understand why I'm spending so much time on it.
If this is something that you think would be worthwhile, let me know.
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In a sad bit of news, I just learned that Francis Xavier, a local filmmaker who seemed to be on his way to bigger things, died in a car accident in NY.
It was Francis' movie, "Barry's Gift" that played at the networking event at Gardel's last week, and I'm sorry now that I didn't get a chance to see his film and meet him there.
Things like this remind you that death can happen to anybody, at any time. I'm sure Francis had a lot of movies left in him; the fact that he won't have a chance to make those movies because of a completely random event is tragic.
Just a few weeks ago I was telling the Bennett Brothers and Nikc all of my ideas for future films, "Just in case I die". But, if I died before "Livelihood" was finished, would anyone be able to finish it in a way that I would be satisfied with?
Ryan
As a result of changing the look, I had to go back into each scene to make sure that the color correction on all shots still looked good. Some shots required minor tweaking. I also put a noise reduction on a bunch of shots in Scene 3 after noticing that the gamma boosts I'd applied created too much grain.
Regardless, it seems to look great now, and it also seems that this new film look will allow me to work more quickly, because it is more flattering to the lighting and color scheme we used in this section of the film. As a result, I won't have to spend so long making each shot look good.
--
I'm thinking of posting "before and after" stills from the film. Just so everyone can get a sense of what the color correcting is actually accomplishing, and so everyone can understand why I'm spending so much time on it.
If this is something that you think would be worthwhile, let me know.
--
In a sad bit of news, I just learned that Francis Xavier, a local filmmaker who seemed to be on his way to bigger things, died in a car accident in NY.
It was Francis' movie, "Barry's Gift" that played at the networking event at Gardel's last week, and I'm sorry now that I didn't get a chance to see his film and meet him there.
Things like this remind you that death can happen to anybody, at any time. I'm sure Francis had a lot of movies left in him; the fact that he won't have a chance to make those movies because of a completely random event is tragic.
Just a few weeks ago I was telling the Bennett Brothers and Nikc all of my ideas for future films, "Just in case I die". But, if I died before "Livelihood" was finished, would anyone be able to finish it in a way that I would be satisfied with?
Ryan
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