I’ve packed quite a bit of my stuff in anticipation of the move this Friday. There is still a lot of cleaning to do and my job at Barnes and Noble is still giving me a bunch of hours. I’m juggling that as best I can. I’m also interviewing this Friday, the same day I’m moving for a new job. If I get it and can work both jobs I’ll be able to take care of a lot of my money issues and maybe even get my teeth the rest of the way fixed and see a doctor. It’s all pretty exciting and a lot of work too.
June 2006
Monthly Archive
So I’ve signed the lease on where I’m going to live for the next year. It’s pretty exciting. It’s a studio for 370 a month, not including utilities. The landlady said people average 100 a month for garbage, gas, water, electricity. I don’t use that much stuff, so I might save. It’s walking distance from my work, and tough guy walking distance from a King Soopers. They are giving me a $100 King Sooper’s giftcard for moving in. I’m excited as hell. I’m moving in on the 30th of this month. One long day of taking stuff over.
I transfered the footage at Crosspoint and am pretty happy with everything. Some stuff was bad, i.e. the double exposure, but Scott Parks footage was really close to what I wanted. Some of the night stuff was exactly what I was after and even a little prettier than I thought it would be. The footage all came out a bit warm, but the color correction fixed it a bit. I’m going to do a 3 light transfer at some point of select pieces of footage so that’ll be when we match continuity color-wise between shots.
Seeing the footage really excited me. I feel amped up to shoot the rest now.
Well, here’s some bad news. There was some confusion on the set and through mislabeling and mishandling film reels 1 and 3 were double-exposed together. That means that I lost all footage on those two reels. The good news is that the footage can be re-shot on the greenscreen and the person responsible paid for the film. I’m going in this weekend or early next week to see the state of the film that was shot to test for out of focus shots or anything like that.
While shooting on 35 is going to give us a very high resolution quality image, I’m tempted to shoot on vidoe for the rest of my time at this school. It’s due to cost and the fact that I can’t afford to have mistakes like this happen. A video shoot, while still expensive, isn’t as prohibitively expensive at this level. It’s also easier to see immediately if someone isn’t doing their job right.
I’m fairly certain that the remaning footage is fine, but the transfer will tell me for sure. If there’s more problems however, I might have to cancel the movie and look for a new film school though.
On the brighter side of things, I’m getting my own place next month and I’m going to enjoy living alone.