The trouble with a three-day weekend (Thanksgiving) is you have just as much work to do in a fewer amount of days! We realize this during a brief Tuesday meeting and determine the first thing we have to do is whittle down our 750+ shots into a manageable, 100 shots or less. Until we do this, we can’t begin any post-production.
Wait - We have how many shots?
By the end of Wednesday, Anshul has developed the Flash skeleton into which our photos will slip into – this is a huge achievement.
Anshul explains how his Flash skeleton works
Milim and Shahrzad also do an exceptional job of whittling down our massive folder of shots into a much more manageable size. The group meets on Thursday evening and we spend a few hours finalizing which of these shots from this folder we’ll be using for the final photofilm.
The shooters become the shot
Unfortunately, Jeff gets hit hard with the flu on Thursday and has to leave home early. He’s out for about five days while a few of the group assemble over the weekend and tries to cover what needs to be done.
Nick assembles a list of sounds that will be needed for our scenes and gleans most of them from the IRC collection – which includes 10 DVDs of sound clips from 21st Century Fox Studios, and another 10 from Universal Studios. He also grabs a few dozen clips (i.e. restaurant crowd noise, outdoor basketball noise) from royalty-free online sites.
Nick and Al get together Sunday afternoon in the project room to place these in the FLV files Al has created. Al mostly does this as he’s the more proficient one with Adobe Suite. We also practise voice recording just with the built-in mics from our laptop and AdobeSoundbooth (which sounds much better than we expected!).
Nick also begins posting the blog on Blogspot.com (which proves too frustrating), and starts the whole process on the much superior WordPress. Also on Sunday, Milim comes in and after a few hours of work manages a brilliant job of manipulating our main green screen image – that of a close-up of Dave holding Mike’s hand, as Mike continues to slip.
We break away in the evening as our Building Virtual Worlds projects are due the same week, and we each need to devote time to ours.
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