Little Successes

Yay!!

I finished the first dinner scene!  ("finished")  I can't tell you how relieved this makes me!  Yay!

I will probably go back and tweak it again, eventually, but for now - it plays all the way through from Bill's "Heyyy - there she is!" to Amy's "Oh shut up."  For the time being, I even left the cheer at the very end of the take on it (RJ and I in particular burst out with joy that we got all the way through the scene -- only Bill is thoroughly unamused because he realizes that we skipped the song, somehow -- but only in that take, not on my "timeline," so ten years later, the cheer is well deserved). 

Now I move on to the Skip Gates (who should probably have been Cornell West -- confused my Black intellectuals alienated by Harvard U) dream discussion and Marissa's recognition of Larry.  Wow, I will be glad when this whole dinner sequence is DONE -- five people talking is tough to edit.

I am rather re-impressed with this whole minute-per-page dealio.  I had five and a half pages of the dinner scene; I cut out the bit about "serendipity," which was about a half a page, and the scene turns out to be five minutes long.  Amazing!  Nice.  If it keeps up like that, I'll hit all my formulaic page-marks.

The different color temps and exposures are really something though.  The light on Sarah's CU is bright and white, while Larry's is so dark it was almost unusable.  Most of the others are just too yellow.  I've done a little color correcting, but I am trusting that eventually we'll have someone who really will know how to make them all match.  Fingers crossed.

Pleeeeeased with the progress though -- although worried a little that I won't make my deadline.  We'll see.