Big progress!

Howdy folks!

So between working into the wee hours last night and pretty much all of today, I have managed to edit the ENTIRE set of sequences that occur on the jungle planet. This represents the majority of the film and is a good sign that we might actually be able to complete this thing by the end of the month.

As expected, and described in a previous post, we'll need to return to the woods for a few pick up shots of Clayton the Sleeper in order for all of the pieces to come together as they should, but the Stormy stuff is all GREAT! It's pretty fun to watch as it is right now, even without the special effects and audio work. So it just gets better and better from here.

Today I took this edit of the jungle footage to Bill to get his take on things. He always has his own ideas about what should be changed or adjusted, so now I have a few tweaks to do so that we're both happy with it. Not much though as we have now worked on several films together so I have a pretty good sense for what he likes to see. This is a good system as it provides the opportunity for an outside perspective of the scene that the editor has assembled. For example, I cut together the swordfight footage at a pace that I felt was both slow enough to understand and yet fast enough to be exciting... but after looking at the same footage for hours it becomes difficult to tell how the pacing "reads" to a first time viewer. So by showing it to Bill I get the first feedback on whether it was a little too fast or too slow or too confusing. But so far we're in pretty good shape and it's time to move on to editing the cockpit scenes to complete the first full edit of the movie. Still aiming for a full edit of the film to be complete by Friday.

Below is a shot of Stormy on the wrong end of a tazer-like device.

Later,

John