Currently I'm working on breaking the footage up into usable cuts. Basically you watch the footage and insert a splice everytime Bill says "action" and another splice when he says "cut". It's a little more precise than that as what you are REALLY looking for is the point at which the performer begins to give you something that you can possibly use and then the point at which the performer stops performing. This gives you all of the usable shots of the film, which doesn't mean that they will ACTUALLY get used. That comes later when you are actually assembling the cuts in sequence.
It's tempting to start putting some of these shots in sequence now, trimming them together to see how the movie is going to look... but the movie as a whole goes faster if I can keep myself from "playing with it" at this stage. Better to isolate all of the cuts first. It's not fun or rewarding really, but it gives me a chance to see what we've actually got and increases my familiarity with the footage. The fun stuff is coming, but this might take a few days, depending upon how many hours a day I have the opportunity to work on it.
Pierson looks awesome as our steampunk-cowboy villian and Nicola Rae is breathtaking. I need to remember to put some screenshots up here!
John
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