Tuesday, August 07, 2007

DAY 77: "I'm freeeeee...!!!"

Of course, when most of you brickfilmers hear the above statement, Nosniborus' "Frankenstein" comes to mind. However, I did a little takeoff on that in the scene I shot last night. It got another 7 seconds or so of footage added to the overall total, which is now approaching about 3:20. That's a big leap from the 2 1/2 minutes I had done at the end of June. Still, that's only about a minute a month, which is not good.

Also, I'm freeeeee from various barriers that have been preventing regular filming over the last several weeks. I've finally recovered from my sickness thanks to some fast-working azithromycin, and I have a couple of free days before I go off yet again to visit relatives until next Saturday. I'm going to try to get one more shot in later today.

In other news, as I went into detail in a post that I never quite got finished, I was losing hope that I was going to finish by December. This is compared to about a month earlier when I said it would "definitely be finished by December." At the moment, I'm saying there's about a 50/50 chance that it will be done in time for the MoB contest. I will finish it at some point, but I may or may not be able to make the deadline. My main worry isn't finishing the animation itself, but also scoring it. So I'm kind of doing double duty with this film, animating it and scoring it. Scoring this will probably take at least 2 or 3 months of fairly constant work, which means I would need to have the filming done by October. I'll have to see how it goes over the next few weeks. I'll have a solid week before school starts to get in some last-minute filming, for example. Then I'll have weekends and holidays, and maybe even nights during school here at the beginning since I probably won't have much homework. Time waits for no man!

Also, don't forget to watch my new film, Flight 901.

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