Two down

Okay!

We're off to a good start.  This is especially nice because I'm sure there will be some very aggravating moments, too. 

I did Scene 29 yesterday...

It was a rough shoot on the street (somewhere - don't remember where we were - Dorchester somewhere, I think) with passers by and trucks and people whistling -- plus it was a very bright day, so as we walked, we moved in and out of shadows.  Were we aware of this at the time?  Probably.  We got a Verizon employee to be an extra at his truck, but he kept looking at the actors walk by, which makes it look like he's looking at the camera, because of the angle of his glance.  Too bad.  Ridiculous ice cream. 

Then today's job was to figure out if I had a version of Scene 30 already done because this was the very first scene I ever did -- I was going to (in 2004, I believe) use it as the frame of a trailer.  I recall sitting in the Caribou Coffee on Hennepin and 22nd St showing the scene to Marty W. on his cool portable monitor.  "You guys were really serious, weren't you?" he said in a pleasantly surprised tone.  He agreed to edit our movie for free.  Yay!  A year or so later, he gave the tapes back, having not had time because real life took him over.  Boo! 

The problem today was that all I could ever find was a squeezed QT file on the finished scene that was also slightly pixelated, for some reason.  It was not usable.  But where were the original clips??  I searched for an hour or more (even got my old PowerBook G4 to come on - a tricky task - and in there was a folder called "Old iMac" -- found some S&B original budget sheets, etc -- but no video files) and was just about to give up, when I tried One Last Thing -- which worked!  Yay!

SO:  Scene 30, after minor tweaking, is DONE TOO.

Now the real work begins!  Or, er, begins again!