Thursday afternoon my rough cut is due. I find I work much better with deadlines, so it’s been good having that looming over me for the last couple weeks.
I’ve been working pretty hard, spending many hours hunched over a computer (and I’ve got the back pain to prove it!). My strategy has been to attack the film in segments – I’ll take 5 – 10 scenes, depending on length, and cut them together and then move on to another segment. I only have a few scenes left – 5 or 6. They are the ones I’ve been putting off because they scare me the most. They are all really important scenes and also have the most footage so they’re rather daunting.
I have yet to put all those pieces together though. That’ll be the real test. Individually, I’ve been pleased with the sequences overall. A couple scenes have proved problematic but for the most part, they’re working out well. This weekend I will string everything together and then I’ll be able to see how the film flows and where the problems are. That’ll be a scary day!
Hopefully I won’t find that we need to reshoot anything, as that’s pretty much an impossibility. Our primary location has been transformed back to a normal home, but we could do some exteriors if we needed to. I’ve got my fingers crossed that that won’t happen though. We do, however, have to reshoot some stills we staged for the poster and publicity images. We snapped a few rolls of really great stuff inside the house (the only stills of the parlor, a crucial location), but the lab botched them. So next month I will be taking Sarah and Pat out to DeLand to shoot the image for the poster.
