New Year Roanoke

A new year and a fine cut. Quite a bit ahead of schedule Daniel and I finished the first fine cut today (minus around 15 minor changes we have now deiced upon) and the final 10 minutes. Although this might not sound exactly like a fine cut, it means alot of the image is how it should be and it can be locked off for audio and cgi sooner or later.

At the beginning of February we may have a small change as we are currently discussing something reasonable major in regards to having all the footage filmed for the production. Although we have officially finished the shooting week we have always said there will be a few re-shoot days, the extent of these were not known until the edit and currently, although they will only total a small % of the final film, the locations means we might well be going back to a few of the locations.

Dan and I, along with the script writer Shane (from a virtual position) as he is now back in the USA are discussing a few changes which i believe will spruce up the production from the excellent narrative it has already and close a few remaining questions in regards to the narrative and open a number of further story lines and twists that are really quite exciting. I'm sorry for being slightly here and there with this statement but until we have fully confirmed the new additions to the story I don't want to speak out of turn. What could be quite interesting is that without intention we may end up with a alternate ending.

On Friday we are meeting with someone we hope will be able to complete our CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) and although it isn't a major factor within the production, as in we don't have many flying cars or that many laser guns ;-), we do have a number of areas that we couldn't fill in regards to scenery and therefore some computer imagery might be able to do the trick for us.

I wrote a full schedule yesterday for the production. Initial video editing (excluding video feed editing from the re-shoots) should be completed by January 21st 2007. The audio dubbing will then begin and be completed by January 28th, then the music will hopefully be on schedule for completion by February 4th.

After this we will be looking to re-shoot a number of areas (dependant on actors availability) by February 9ht, in order to edit the final bits, and colour grade and render by Feb 18th.

There are a few stages after this, but as we speak, that should do for now.

Speak on Friday,

Bertie