During the editing of this movie I have explored the democratic process of putting together a project that involves a crew of artists and interested (pre)viewers. I am at the helm, assembling the pieces gradually, as I seek input from other artists to help guide the process. This film is not mine alone-- It is a conglomeration of ideas that I originally set out and then allowed my collaborators to help shape through their input, feedback, and direct involvement. My collaboration includes: script consultation, co-producers, production assistants, concept artists, photographers, actors, prop construction, set design, locations, sound artists, musical score, video editing, and various artist feedback during the editing.
Through this editing process, I am learning to listen carefully, incorporate many ideas, and figure out ways to fit everything together into the final product. I often discover that many of my own ideas may not fit within the whole, which I have set out from the beginning to be a collaborative process. The most important aspect behind the production is the combination of various elements into the final piece.
Collaboration is often at the core of filmmaking and the challenge becomes the process of finding the most effective use of sometimes disparate ideas. The satisfaction of guiding and assembling various processes and opinions into a finished movie is in finding the serendipitous unification of all the elements that combine to make a movie.
Ultimately, our movie represents not only my original vision, but also the combination of all our ideas together into a complete picture. I have guided this process, but the final product will represent the work of the entire production crew, the cast, and post-production collaborators.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Website...
the website is up and running:
www.assholerobot.com
This is the official website for my movie. I will continue to build the site as I get closer to release.
www.assholerobot.com
This is the official website for my movie. I will continue to build the site as I get closer to release.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Finishing the final edit...
I've had several meetings and discussions with a few other artists in regards to the music, the sound effects, the final sound edit, the titles, the movie poster, and the final cut of the picture. In the next few weeks I'll schedule further meetings and finally put the various pieces into place.
Things are coming along, and I still have some work to do on the final cut.
Here is the process in progress:
PICTURE:
-making adjustments to the scenes one at a time, tightening up the edits
-decisions about the title segments and scene transitions
SOUND:
-timing music recordings to the scenes
-sound editing, overlapping audio, eliminating audible cuts
-decisions about sounds to foley
-ambient audio for each location
Still to come:
PICTURE:
-special effects shots
-credits
-final "look" for the movie
SOUND:
-sound effects mix
-music mix
-final audio mix
I have set the date of April 1, 2011 as the due date for the completed movie. This is not the release date though, as I will still need to produce the DVD and prepare for the premier screening.
As of today, the official release date is set at May 13, 2011.
Things are coming along, and I still have some work to do on the final cut.
Here is the process in progress:
PICTURE:
-making adjustments to the scenes one at a time, tightening up the edits
-decisions about the title segments and scene transitions
SOUND:
-timing music recordings to the scenes
-sound editing, overlapping audio, eliminating audible cuts
-decisions about sounds to foley
-ambient audio for each location
Still to come:
PICTURE:
-special effects shots
-credits
-final "look" for the movie
SOUND:
-sound effects mix
-music mix
-final audio mix
I have set the date of April 1, 2011 as the due date for the completed movie. This is not the release date though, as I will still need to produce the DVD and prepare for the premier screening.
As of today, the official release date is set at May 13, 2011.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Final Post Production Schedule...
“Asshole Robot and the Benefits of an Artificial Mind”
Final Post Production Schedule:
March 4, 2011 - Final Picture Edit complete
March 11, 2011 - Titles/Credit sequence complete
March 18, 2011 - Sound Effects, ADR sound complete
March 18, 2011 - Music Score edit complete
March 25, 2011 - Final Sound edit complete
March 25, 2011 - Finalize arrangements for release date/ screening
April 1, 2011 - Color Correction, Final Movie Render complete
April 1, 2011 - Print to tape
April 15, 2011 - Official Movie Poster complete
April 15, 2011 - Official Movie Trailer complete
April 22, 2011 - Promotional Materials complete
April 23, 2011 - Senior Show (showing poster, trailer, DVD order forms)
May 6, 2011 - Final DVD complete (including menus, special features and DVD cover)
May 13, 2011 - Release date and Screening
To be continued after end of semester:
Press kit and festival entry package
Festival entry forms
Send out for chosen festival entries
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Project proposal...
Here is a proposal for the post production project for this semester. Preliminary schedule coming soon...
1. Finish editing my movie.
a. rough cut-- to final cut
b. edit sound track
c. titles, credit sequence
d. final sound edit
e. color/ effects (polish)
2. Prepare for showing.
a. render movie
b. create DVD
c. output to- {digital, DVD, tape}
3. Host a showing.
a. promote showing of the movie
b. play the movie (Coppola Theatre)
c. host a Q&A afterwords...
I'd like to work with the cinema department to arrange a showing in the Coppola Theater if possible.
There are currently 2 trailers on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/ecaselton
1. Finish editing my movie.
a. rough cut-- to final cut
b. edit sound track
c. titles, credit sequence
d. final sound edit
e. color/ effects (polish)
2. Prepare for showing.
a. render movie
b. create DVD
c. output to- {digital, DVD, tape}
3. Host a showing.
a. promote showing of the movie
b. play the movie (Coppola Theatre)
c. host a Q&A afterwords...
I'd like to work with the cinema department to arrange a showing in the Coppola Theater if possible.
There are currently 2 trailers on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/ecaselton
Monday, January 31, 2011
Building the Story...
The editing process offers a new way to tell the story.
Once the production is complete and the post production is set in motion, a new process for telling the story begins...
Carefully looking at all the footage, considering all the takes for each shot, the task of putting the story together was laid before me. I started out by assembling the shots according to the screenplay. This would build a foundation for the final edit.
The rough cut that I assembled during the production did not include careful consideration of every take. I had several takes for each shot, which warranted further review. I completely scrapped my original "rough cut", deleted it, then started from scratch. I then embarked on to the process of reviewing each take as I put the scenes together again, one scene at a time. The movie began to take a crude shape...
Based on feedback from my original "rough cut" and my own reactions to seeing the story played out, I was inspired to take a different approach to the timeline from the original script. I started out by presenting the story in a non-linear fashion, mixing up the scenes and shortening them, distinguishing them with "title" screens. I ended up with a somewhat disjointed story in the beginning, which I considered as a puzzle taking shape through the course of the movie. Eventually, during the editing process, I began to unravel this puzzle, rearranging the disjointed scenes back to a more linear presentation.
Eventually, I focussed on refining the edit, going through each scene to make timing decisions about how each shot would lead to the next shot. I had to ask myself which character I would show at which moment during the dialogue, when to cut, when to use transitions, and how to set the pacing for each scene. While the pacing for each scene was originally dictated by the script, then by the performances, the editing process provided the opportunity to refine the timing of each moment in the story.
With most of the scenes polished enough to represent a general mood for the movie, I began to reconcile my original vision with the movie that was taking shape. The overall presentation was slowly coming into focus.
While many wrinkles in the overall flow still exist, they are gradually beginning to smooth out as I refine, massage, and polish each of the edits.
This process is still ongoing at this time, on its way to completion.....
Once the production is complete and the post production is set in motion, a new process for telling the story begins...
Carefully looking at all the footage, considering all the takes for each shot, the task of putting the story together was laid before me. I started out by assembling the shots according to the screenplay. This would build a foundation for the final edit.
The rough cut that I assembled during the production did not include careful consideration of every take. I had several takes for each shot, which warranted further review. I completely scrapped my original "rough cut", deleted it, then started from scratch. I then embarked on to the process of reviewing each take as I put the scenes together again, one scene at a time. The movie began to take a crude shape...
Based on feedback from my original "rough cut" and my own reactions to seeing the story played out, I was inspired to take a different approach to the timeline from the original script. I started out by presenting the story in a non-linear fashion, mixing up the scenes and shortening them, distinguishing them with "title" screens. I ended up with a somewhat disjointed story in the beginning, which I considered as a puzzle taking shape through the course of the movie. Eventually, during the editing process, I began to unravel this puzzle, rearranging the disjointed scenes back to a more linear presentation.
Eventually, I focussed on refining the edit, going through each scene to make timing decisions about how each shot would lead to the next shot. I had to ask myself which character I would show at which moment during the dialogue, when to cut, when to use transitions, and how to set the pacing for each scene. While the pacing for each scene was originally dictated by the script, then by the performances, the editing process provided the opportunity to refine the timing of each moment in the story.
With most of the scenes polished enough to represent a general mood for the movie, I began to reconcile my original vision with the movie that was taking shape. The overall presentation was slowly coming into focus.
While many wrinkles in the overall flow still exist, they are gradually beginning to smooth out as I refine, massage, and polish each of the edits.
This process is still ongoing at this time, on its way to completion.....
Friday, January 28, 2011
Post Production - "Asshole Robot and the Benefits of an Artificial Mind"
This post production process involves close to 9 hours of raw footage....
Capturing the video into the computer was the first step. That was easy. I began capturing while I was still shooting, at the end of each shooting day.
Next came the process of viewing and logging the clips. I would need to log and organize each clip, assigning clips to scenes, and building an editing project in Final Cut Pro. I separated all the scenes into "bins", labeling each "shot" and every "take". I ended up with 25 bins, one for each scene from the movie screenplay. There were 696 separate shots total. I captured the movie in HD video, which amounts to over 330 gigabytes of data.
I began this extensive process while I was still in production.
During the production, I began to assemble some of the scenes into 'rough cuts'. I picked 'takes' arbitrarily, putting scenes together according to the script, in order to show the story. This was a useful tool while shooting, because during some later shoots, I could show the actors and the crew what we had done while we were still working on the scenes.
Once the final day of production had ended, I began the post production process.....
Capturing the video into the computer was the first step. That was easy. I began capturing while I was still shooting, at the end of each shooting day.
Next came the process of viewing and logging the clips. I would need to log and organize each clip, assigning clips to scenes, and building an editing project in Final Cut Pro. I separated all the scenes into "bins", labeling each "shot" and every "take". I ended up with 25 bins, one for each scene from the movie screenplay. There were 696 separate shots total. I captured the movie in HD video, which amounts to over 330 gigabytes of data.
I began this extensive process while I was still in production.
During the production, I began to assemble some of the scenes into 'rough cuts'. I picked 'takes' arbitrarily, putting scenes together according to the script, in order to show the story. This was a useful tool while shooting, because during some later shoots, I could show the actors and the crew what we had done while we were still working on the scenes.
Once the final day of production had ended, I began the post production process.....
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