A year ago today, we wrapped principal photography! Hard to believe its been a whole year. We thought you might like to know where we are at in the post-production process: You may have heard that we did 2 days of pickups/reshoots in August. Those went very well, and have filled in the gaps we felt needed filling. In early November, we locked picture. That means we agreed that the picture edit wont change any more. And that allows several post-production processes to start work, without having to aim at a moving target. So Trevor and his team have begun work on the visual effects. Hes starting with what he calls simple stuff (although I suspect he may define simple differently to me!) - fixing lens distortion and compositing some of the green screen shots. Part of his process involves some color correction, so the effects shots will match the rest of the movie. Hes coordinating that with our color correction facility - Blade Editorial - who are also assisting him with some of the effects work. When the effects are finished, they will be re-imported back into the film, ready for the main color correction process. Our Sound Designer, Mike Burdick, is working 27 hours a day replacing the temporary sound recorded on the cameras, with the high quality sound he recorded separately. Every shot in the movie (there are thousands) has to have the sound replaced manually, synchronizing each one to the guide track. For each shot, he has to select which of our 4-6 mics captured the dialog the most clearly. After this, he will then turn to sound effects, finding or creating each sound we hear. By the time hes finished, hes going to need to move to Hawaii to recover! Our composer, Joseph DeBeasi, has artfully composed themes for each of the characters, and developed them to fit the emotions conveyed in each scene. Now that picture has been locked, and weve spotted the entire film together, he will develop the score and record it. When Mike and Joseph have finished their work, they will hand over ProTools sessions to our Sound Mixer Steve Harrison at The Audio Suite, who will determine levels for each element, and make sure we have a movie that sounds as good as it looks in a surround-sound theater. So as you can see, theres still a lot to do. Probably 4-6 months of work. Dont forget that everyone working on the film has to work on other things too. Eleven Eleven is not like a studio movie, where the producers can tell someone to drop whatever else theyre working on, to focus on one project. In the independent world, everyone either has to schedule their work around a day job, or they have to fit our project in between their other projects because we cant pay enough for them to turn down other work. I will say that everything we have looks and sounds great! Thank you to everyone who has helped - your talent and dedication is so much appreciated! We aim to have a finished project that will make you proud! Best wishes for the Holiday Season, and for the best year ever next year! Chris Redish, Director
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:12:16 +0000
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