Tweaks
Less than a week left before the delivery date but not a huge amount left to do. Aside from the sound mix, we’re just tweaking at the moment. The first major pass on all the final shots was finished early in the week, so we’ve spent the past few days with Mark working through a daily list of tweaks, then I add the new versions of any altered shots and we review the whole film before drawing a up a list of changes to make the following day. They’re mostly just simple changes, altering the pace of a particular shot, or trying a new shot order. The ending has taken a little more work, as it often does, although we think we have it cracked now. For a while I thought we might need to add another shot onto the end as I wasn’t sure if the ending we had felt like “an ending”. But now that we’ve got the preceding shots working (including cutting to the second character earlier in order to maintain the ending’s pace), an extra shot on the end seems unnecessary.
The guys who are doing the sound mix and music have all the dialogue takes and a 95% complete version of the picture. We’ll be locking picture over the weekend and sending them the locked picture (which means that we can’t really make any more changes to picture after the weekend) on Sunday night, with the intention being to get the sound finished on Wednesday so that I can online and encode it on Wednesday night. The delivery date is Friday, but I’ve put Thursday in as an extra day in case something goes wrong. I’m sure we won’t need that though.
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