I also need another shot that I won't discuss at the moment since it would totally qualify as guerilla filmmaking since I'll need to get a shot of a certain situation that people would not be entirely comfortable with if they knew they were being shot for a feature film. In the final product, even if they saw themselves, they wouldn't have a clue. It's also a shot in the dark as to whether I'd even be able to get such a situation, but I'm hoping I get lucky...and if you knew what I was talking about, you would find "lucky" to be quite the morbid thought.
Once I get those shots down, I'll have a complete cut ready to go for both the sound balancing and the music writing. I still have a commitment from Farmer, who is my composer, so that's still a go, and The Engineer is practically chomping at the bit when it comes to engineering the sound.
I did have to move from Moviemaker to Pinnacle since Moviemaker couldn't handle some of the more complex sound things that I was doing. Pinnacle worked like a dream since it works frame by frame as opposed to fractions of seconds like Moviemaker does. Some elements were more difficult to use, especially in the sound category. Pinnacle can't just mute a sound clip, like Moviemaker does. You have to actually adjust the volume before and after the clip in question. But on a brighter spot, clips and their sounds all move together when you do anything, so if I had syncked the sound in Pinnacle, I could have cut anything anywhere and everything would have moved together. I don't know if that made sense, but it was very cool. It made the cuts in the complete movie file a lot easier.
The picture part is almost done, but unless I get those shots by the weekend of the 13th, I won't have a full rought cut ready by the 16th deadline for that festival I was going to try and get into. I really need to read some more info about that to see if I can even afford it. But we'll see how things go.
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