Finished

Okay, I came back from the post house yesterday with the finished version of the film.
The colour-correction was done in FCP and Colour on Digibeta. I dream about having it done as digital intermediate, but that is a step to far for a film that has not yet been accepted into a film festival.
Luti and John at Portobello Post corrected the colour, but also fixed some of the mess the lab made, with dirt and noise.
They desaturated the colour, so it is quite white with hint of blue, almost colourless. It has the quality of fine paper.
It comes down to this:















Hard to believe that all that work comes down to a couple of reels of S16 footage and 4 Digibeta copies of the finished work.
So I will be posting less about this project and more about the Tidal Barrier project. Still, I will update this blog as I hear about film festivals.

Update

Okay. We are getting close. Last week Roland finished the final sound mix. And Wednesday or Thursday I am taking it for grading. And that will be that. I will have 5 copies made on Digibeta, hoping that some festival somewhere will want to show it. And then probably a 100 copies on DVD, for cast and crew, and to apply at festivals.
And speaking of festivals, I just sent a copy off to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. I am don't know much about this festival except that it was backed by Robert DeNiro. So we will see. It would just be great to have an excuse to visit New York.
And I just discovered that I have missed the deadline for Rotterdam by a couple of months. This process really has been drawn out, hasn't it? I need to accelerate it on the next project, which is progressing to the casting stage.
And note: if you have not seen, or even if you have, try not to miss the Tsai Ming-Liang retrospective at the NFT. http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/seasons/mingliang/