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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Inventory milestone still pending
Another 7 days have rolled by and the inventory milestone is still on the horizon. It’s been a slightly traumatic week. I extracted DOG references from my personal journals from the years 2006-2009, which meant slogging through a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, time, workflow
Tagged Faisal Azam, inventory, journal, milestone, milestone missed, references
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Another DOG milestone… missed!
I’ve overrun the rescheduled inventory deadline, after only getting in about 30 hours in the last 6 days. What else was I doing? Some M3 business on Wednesday, the usual training, eating, sleeping, maintaining social ties, fixing things… Below is … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, time, workflow
Tagged a unit, Alan Watts, Ann Loeding, b unit, canada, eiji sumi, Faisal Azam, Final Cut Pro, inventory, milestone, objective, plan, prickles and goo, projection, test screening, tight, wide
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Inventory emerges
I’ve been poring over the drive “momma”, 2 terabytes (5 years) of accumulated DOG development. I had this idea that the content was relatively organized, but it turns out – not so much. Sifting through the hoary once upon a time, … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, hardware, people, plan, production and post, real life, software, time, workflow
Tagged alien aesthetic, Archive, audience, blog, cognitive wormhole, content cosmos, creative control, diskcatalogmaker, DOG, gigabyte, inventory, momma, oscar, supra-luminal, terabyte, VFX
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DOG notes August 1-15, 2011
As I dive back in, there will inevitably be tangential ideas and inspiration. These I’ll write down for later review, deep storage… edit (tools) image placeholder or describe what’s seen new script index cards image cards qualities humor / backstory … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, plan, production and post, research, story, technique
Tagged adr, notes, to do, variation, versions, VFX
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3 flavors of DOG
Let’s talk 3 versions. There’s a working 3:30 minute core, ready to get sleeky. The 2011 approach to the final cut is to cut to the core and add back in. Story support – what’s worth adding to deepen, reveal … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, plan, production and post, research, story, technique, time
Tagged festival, flavors, grail, length, motion graphics, short, sweet spot
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ECL interviews DK – 3:30 milestone
A transcription of pro tem Producer El Carne Loco’s interview with Director Dan Kelly regarding Daughter of God’s first milestone completion in 2011. ECL: Regarding the 3 minute version, what do you feel was accomplished, did it meet your expectations? … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, time, workflow
Tagged blonde, dan kelly, director, el carne loco, Faisal Azam
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DOG resurrection
She’s back! Daughter of God is in the house. 3:30 minutes The first objective was to post a micro version of the story (~3:00 minutes) by Wednesday 8/10. Between Sunday 8/7 and Wednesday 8/10 I was able to dedicate 11 … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, time, workflow
Tagged accelerated narrative, creative direction, dan kelly, director, DOG, dramedy, edit, editorial, el carne loco, Faisal Azam, producer, recap, sleek, uncle joe, vision
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DOG post-production meeting
After updating the archive’s catalog the last couple of days, (40 terrabytes worth), I was finally ready to crack the DOG project this morning. Upon reviewing the major sequences, I had a series of epiphanies. Inventory Cataloging the possibilities will … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, time, workflow
Tagged 3 movies, deliverable, DOG, edit, editorial, epiphany, Faisal Azam, inventory, milestone, nyc, production, script, sfx, story
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Awash in wildflowers…
…and basking in beauty, that’s the summer of 2011. Hello World has been beached (blossomed) for a solid year following her crippling injury 30 miles north of Chicago that ended our 2010 expedition. She’s communing with the flox and vetch … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, projects, real life, research, SFX reel, time, workflow
Tagged ALM, combat mime, compost, corn, distraction, DOG, garden, gertrude ekstatisch, girlfriend, hello world, horse manure, james weston, lauren di scipio, marijke church, michigan movie makers, mykl werth, nuclear, soil, solar power, sustainable, tai chi, tcff.org, traverse city film festival, will church
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