Hi!
WELL.
I just thought I'd quickly let you know that I have received the 1st cut of a Kickstarter trailer by the sister of a former student of mine (she is an undergrad at Emerson College). It looks great! We will revise a little, tweak it, and then get a Kickstarter campaign going before the end of July!! (God willing and the Chas don't rise)
YAYYY!!
Love,
Rachel
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
A Post-Post Post
Hello,
Just thought I'd let you know that I have not sent out most of the discs yet. The four other (i.e., besides me) principle actors got theirs and then I bought some cheap mailers on line -- and then I realized that I'm way too broke to go mailing these things out to people right now. Sorry! Yet one more thing that will have to wait until I have an income.
I have been networking a little bit about finding an professional editor to "clean up" the rough cut, but to no avail. I had hoped Kevin/Bill or R.J./Larry might know someone, since they work FT in The Biz, but neither has produced a savior so far. I recently met someone who, I inferred, may work with digital sound - or went to film school for audio? - something. It wasn't a good time for me to clarify this with her, but I'll be in touch with her again before too long and see if there's anything there. Also, as the editing went along, I asked three former students of mine, independently, if they would like to help out -- two actually answered me -- but to no product. I might give that route one more go, though, if through slightly different channels. We'll see. I'll keep poking around as I can.
I'm disappointed that only Christine/Vitta really shared her experience of watching the film after she got the disc. It feels so strange to have this be such a big deal for me, to have been "connected" in this weird virtual way to these people all this time, and now that I have done as much as I can with it, to send it out and get almost nothing back. It's bizarre. Kevin, for example, called me very regularly for the first few years after the shoot, and then kept in touch less regularly but reliably for the last few years -- asking how it was going every now and then (wanting his footage!!) -- and now I wonder if we'll never speak again -- unless I send a note that we got an editor on board. Why should it be any different? For them it was one gig, and gigs end. There have been plenty of projects and plays that I've been a part of, after which I don't expect to stay in touch with people. That's the nature of the business. It was a fun July (I hope it was mostly fun) more than a decade ago. It wasn't life-changing for them; it wasn't their one big project. I, though, have carried this around in my heart and psyche for a decade, feeling tied to them all this time. Not to have a reunion and a "premiere" where we all got together and saw the movie as a group, sharing memories and wincing and laughing together, feeling our ambivalent pride together, seeing the decade in each other's changed-but-familiar faces and all that, but rather to be divided off in the world, everyone seeing it independently - invisibly - in their "new" lives, has been rather anti-climactic and, honestly, sad for me.
But what that means, of course, is just that I need to make another movie. A better funded movie with an editor attached. And to get it done inside two years at most. Right? Right. The answer is always to work again.
Just thought I'd let you know that I have not sent out most of the discs yet. The four other (i.e., besides me) principle actors got theirs and then I bought some cheap mailers on line -- and then I realized that I'm way too broke to go mailing these things out to people right now. Sorry! Yet one more thing that will have to wait until I have an income.
I have been networking a little bit about finding an professional editor to "clean up" the rough cut, but to no avail. I had hoped Kevin/Bill or R.J./Larry might know someone, since they work FT in The Biz, but neither has produced a savior so far. I recently met someone who, I inferred, may work with digital sound - or went to film school for audio? - something. It wasn't a good time for me to clarify this with her, but I'll be in touch with her again before too long and see if there's anything there. Also, as the editing went along, I asked three former students of mine, independently, if they would like to help out -- two actually answered me -- but to no product. I might give that route one more go, though, if through slightly different channels. We'll see. I'll keep poking around as I can.
I'm disappointed that only Christine/Vitta really shared her experience of watching the film after she got the disc. It feels so strange to have this be such a big deal for me, to have been "connected" in this weird virtual way to these people all this time, and now that I have done as much as I can with it, to send it out and get almost nothing back. It's bizarre. Kevin, for example, called me very regularly for the first few years after the shoot, and then kept in touch less regularly but reliably for the last few years -- asking how it was going every now and then (wanting his footage!!) -- and now I wonder if we'll never speak again -- unless I send a note that we got an editor on board. Why should it be any different? For them it was one gig, and gigs end. There have been plenty of projects and plays that I've been a part of, after which I don't expect to stay in touch with people. That's the nature of the business. It was a fun July (I hope it was mostly fun) more than a decade ago. It wasn't life-changing for them; it wasn't their one big project. I, though, have carried this around in my heart and psyche for a decade, feeling tied to them all this time. Not to have a reunion and a "premiere" where we all got together and saw the movie as a group, sharing memories and wincing and laughing together, feeling our ambivalent pride together, seeing the decade in each other's changed-but-familiar faces and all that, but rather to be divided off in the world, everyone seeing it independently - invisibly - in their "new" lives, has been rather anti-climactic and, honestly, sad for me.
But what that means, of course, is just that I need to make another movie. A better funded movie with an editor attached. And to get it done inside two years at most. Right? Right. The answer is always to work again.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Waiting?
Hi -
Some of you are waiting for your DVDs still - sorry. I had the right number of discs -- but I didn't have but a few _envelopes_. As I am broke, I have been watching circulars, hoping they would go on sale. They have not. Yesterday, then I went on line and ordered some. You will get your DVDs when I get my mailers. :)
No developments on the editor and/or Kickstarter thing.
It's raining.
Love,
Rachel
Some of you are waiting for your DVDs still - sorry. I had the right number of discs -- but I didn't have but a few _envelopes_. As I am broke, I have been watching circulars, hoping they would go on sale. They have not. Yesterday, then I went on line and ordered some. You will get your DVDs when I get my mailers. :)
No developments on the editor and/or Kickstarter thing.
It's raining.
Love,
Rachel
Monday, February 18, 2013
Mail This
Okay, I figured out the burning and burned the 15 or so discs that I already owned. The four principle actors (plus me) now have their DVDs -- or, at least, I mailed discs to Kevin/Bill, Christine/Marissa and R.J./Larry, and hand-delivered one to Rachel AO/Amy. Now I will start mailing out the others -- producers and supporting actors.
It was great to see Rachel AO in person -- standing on the snowy street in Cambridgeport. Made me really wish we could all have a reunion -- and could have had that reunion screening that I"d hoped for last summer. Ah so.
Christine/Vitta said she watched the "bonus material" (I included some bloopers and between-takes stuff, forgetting a few choice ones that I will have to put on the "real" DVD if it ever exists) and - what was it? - she laughed so hard she cried?
Ahh, memory lane, you are an interesting, poignant place.
I hope that we manage to find a "real" editor now to "clean it up." But we'll see.
Peace,
Rachel
It was great to see Rachel AO in person -- standing on the snowy street in Cambridgeport. Made me really wish we could all have a reunion -- and could have had that reunion screening that I"d hoped for last summer. Ah so.
Christine/Vitta said she watched the "bonus material" (I included some bloopers and between-takes stuff, forgetting a few choice ones that I will have to put on the "real" DVD if it ever exists) and - what was it? - she laughed so hard she cried?
Ahh, memory lane, you are an interesting, poignant place.
I hope that we manage to find a "real" editor now to "clean it up." But we'll see.
Peace,
Rachel
Monday, February 11, 2013
Burn This
Okay, here's what's going on:
I didn't have too much trouble exporting from Final Cut Express (it seems), and my iDVD seems to have made a perfectly good DVD menu and whatnot,
but the disc won't burn.
I keep getting an error message -- an "unexpected error," it says (what other kind of error is there?) -- without an explanation.
I can't believe how many different types of DVD
A) exist
B) I have in this box
+R? -R? Single-layer, double-layer, blah blah blah. Just more of the side of "filmmaking" that I really wish I did not have to know anything about. It's so boring and "unintuitive" for me that it's like brain torture. This is the way I used to feel in Trigonometry class. Why don't they just classify the DVDs as sines and cosines? Every other term in math in 11th grade, we'd alternate Algebra 2 with Trig. My report card went: A, C, A, C, A. Guess which terms were Trig.
Anyway -- I will poke around with it today -- look online at some Help forums and whatnot. I really hope it's not that my laptop and/or operating system won't handle it. (MacBook Pro from 2009, OSX.6.8) I burned a test DVD, back when I was having those .avi/.mov import issues - a couple scenes totalling maybe 7 minutes? - so I know it the burning device works.
Vamos a ver....
I didn't have too much trouble exporting from Final Cut Express (it seems), and my iDVD seems to have made a perfectly good DVD menu and whatnot,
but the disc won't burn.
I keep getting an error message -- an "unexpected error," it says (what other kind of error is there?) -- without an explanation.
I can't believe how many different types of DVD
A) exist
B) I have in this box
+R? -R? Single-layer, double-layer, blah blah blah. Just more of the side of "filmmaking" that I really wish I did not have to know anything about. It's so boring and "unintuitive" for me that it's like brain torture. This is the way I used to feel in Trigonometry class. Why don't they just classify the DVDs as sines and cosines? Every other term in math in 11th grade, we'd alternate Algebra 2 with Trig. My report card went: A, C, A, C, A. Guess which terms were Trig.
Anyway -- I will poke around with it today -- look online at some Help forums and whatnot. I really hope it's not that my laptop and/or operating system won't handle it. (MacBook Pro from 2009, OSX.6.8) I burned a test DVD, back when I was having those .avi/.mov import issues - a couple scenes totalling maybe 7 minutes? - so I know it the burning device works.
Vamos a ver....
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