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.

Editing begins

The news is that the transfer to Hard drive was done on Thursday and I began the edit this weekend. I was quite looking forward to it, until I began the tedious task of syncing the sound and picture.
But that done, I began the edit this morning and finished it an hour ago. I have two slightly different edits. Some of you may think this quick, and it is. But then again, I spent a lot of time thinking of the shots, I did two complete workshops, and shot and edited one of them...I have already made this film twice.
(I have to say that so far my experience of film is fantastic. I have the developed roll next to me on the desk, which is quite sexy. I am working an offline, DV dub, and even that looks fantastic. It would very hard to go back to video after this experience.)
I will look again at the edits with fresh eyes tomorrow. Perhaps I will create another alternative. I will see. But once complete, on Wednesday perhaps, I will burn a DVD copy and then garner some opinions.

Post-production update

Some information on the current state of post-production for Reconciliation:
I had the film developed and transferred to Digibeta at Todd AO in Camden. I am now looking for somewhere to have a transfer done from Digibeta tape to an external hard drive (I don't have the kit for such a transfer, eg, a card to ingest Digibeta via a deck).
Ideally this would be the same place where I could get a online edit done in August. The other option is to do the colour myself in Combustion and then find somewhere to just do the final master, but I like the idea of making some contacts in the post-production world. Also finding someone who really knows what they are doing, instead of muddling through by myself.
I will do the offline edit in Final Cut Pro on either a MacBook Pro (laptop) or a borrowed MacPro, with a SATA Raid for the media.