DAY 40: "w00t" as they say

That's right, I've now gotten 2.5 minutes of footage under my belt! w00t! And how many months has it been? Hmm. Well, let's just say two and a half minutes in a month. That means five per two, ten in four, 20 in eight. That's not good. I'm definitely going to have to speed things up. Oh well, I bet I can do it. I am about halfway through shooting Scene 3, after which I'll start Scene 6 (Scene 4 I've already filmed, Scene 5 was cut from the script). Scene 6 is where That Darn Smoker is out on the street and starts having his flashbacks about his past life as a smoker. Tonight I got two more shots done that were fairly quick, one of the jail guard saying, "1029!" and the other of a skeleton lying in a jail cell. That was probably the easiest shot out of the whole thing, since all I had to do was take the frames and not actually animate anything. My one trouble is that the three shots of the jail guard at the front of the jail cells all have slightly different lighting because I had to film them at different times, so hopefully it won't be too noticeable since there are different shots in between them to distract the viewer from paying too much attention to the lighting.

Last night on chat, Lord_Of_The_LEGO jokingly was listing out who was going to win the BAMPAs next year, and he listed That Darn Smoker as the winner of Best Screenplay. So ha ha. Although my ultimate goal is to at least get nominated for best film. Yeah right. I thought I might actually get nominated for voice acting this year with Thaddeus and the Elevator, but obviously that didn't happen. Although I wasn't much more pleased with Back 2 Skool winning it in the end. "You can't steal my gold if I'm dead!"