Two Hours Long
Worked on the sound for "Mother In-Law Zombie" for the past few nights, and was able to finish through scene 14. Now I only have 3 more scenes to go, although the next one is a big pain, filled with a ton of sound fx (it's the scene with the plate throwing in it). The audio for this segment should be done this weekend. After this is finished, I'll get started on the "Rock Zombie" sound.
I'm happy to report that I have received a few submissions for the music. I won't comment right now on how I feel about them, but I will say that I'm going to keep the deadline open until at least Monday.
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We're still waiting to hear back from The Charles, so please be patient for news about the premiere and subsequent screenings.
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After finishing the chopping and slashing of some excellent scenes, I finally sat down and figured out the running times for CZ and MILZ. CZ runs about 44 minutes, and MILZ runs about 40 minutes. I think RZ is probably around 30 minutes, and the commercials are about 5 minutes total. So that sets us at almost 2 hours, without credits.
And that's about that. There's not really much more I can do to it. Sure, I can trim a few more seconds here and a few seconds there, but there's no way in hell another 15 minutes is getting shaved off. So, it seems as if we have a 2 hour movie on our hands. Which I guess isn't horrible, as long as it doesn't seem like a 2 hour movie. I mean, I've sat through some horrible 80 minute movies that seemed like they were three hours long, and have watched some three hour films that went by in a flash. I'm hoping "Livelihood" is in the latter category.
The two main problems with the length are:
1. The Charles usually only rents out the theater for 2 hours. Which leaves no time for an introduction, a Q&A, a screening of a short beforehand, a DMFS performance, etc, etc. But that's one of the things that we need to talk to them about.
2. Regular home-burned DVDs can't really fit 2 hours on them without looking pretty bad. However, I'm going to get a dual-layer burner today (only $50 at Circuit City!), though, which can fit twice as much on one disk. Hopefully the finished disk will play in one of my players. If it does, I can just take my player to all of the screenings, and hook it up if the player that is on site can't do the dual-layer thing. If my players at home can't read the disks, then I guess technology just sucks. But for $50, I guess I can't complain too much.
Ryan
I'm happy to report that I have received a few submissions for the music. I won't comment right now on how I feel about them, but I will say that I'm going to keep the deadline open until at least Monday.
--
We're still waiting to hear back from The Charles, so please be patient for news about the premiere and subsequent screenings.
--
After finishing the chopping and slashing of some excellent scenes, I finally sat down and figured out the running times for CZ and MILZ. CZ runs about 44 minutes, and MILZ runs about 40 minutes. I think RZ is probably around 30 minutes, and the commercials are about 5 minutes total. So that sets us at almost 2 hours, without credits.
And that's about that. There's not really much more I can do to it. Sure, I can trim a few more seconds here and a few seconds there, but there's no way in hell another 15 minutes is getting shaved off. So, it seems as if we have a 2 hour movie on our hands. Which I guess isn't horrible, as long as it doesn't seem like a 2 hour movie. I mean, I've sat through some horrible 80 minute movies that seemed like they were three hours long, and have watched some three hour films that went by in a flash. I'm hoping "Livelihood" is in the latter category.
The two main problems with the length are:
1. The Charles usually only rents out the theater for 2 hours. Which leaves no time for an introduction, a Q&A, a screening of a short beforehand, a DMFS performance, etc, etc. But that's one of the things that we need to talk to them about.
2. Regular home-burned DVDs can't really fit 2 hours on them without looking pretty bad. However, I'm going to get a dual-layer burner today (only $50 at Circuit City!), though, which can fit twice as much on one disk. Hopefully the finished disk will play in one of my players. If it does, I can just take my player to all of the screenings, and hook it up if the player that is on site can't do the dual-layer thing. If my players at home can't read the disks, then I guess technology just sucks. But for $50, I guess I can't complain too much.
Ryan
posted by Ryan Graham at 1:14 PM
1 Comments:
Hey bro, I'm glad to hear of the progress on the film and the developments with the music. Check your email; I just sent you something that might help you.
Armando
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