another screening
We showed the “rough assembly” version of Hellphone to a select few local filmmakers to get feedback on our progress. We got a lot of great notes to help make it better, and really appreciate all of it. After an…
passing the buck?
The bulk of the work on getting the movie finished will be performed by Stephen. Gotta say, I feel a weird mixture of relief and guilt. It’s a lot of work to do, and I can’t help much. Not that…
that’s rough
We are putting the rough assembly together this week. That means the entire film, all the various effects, sounds, and all, for the first time. Most elements are not 100% done, but we’ll be able to judge where we are…
paying the bills
Been off on a paid video gig the past couple days. Need those once in a while to be able to eat and all while finishing up the movie… Getting some cool shots back from folks who are helping with…
compose yourselves
We finally have a composer to do the score! We were resolved to doing it ourselves, but then a former student of Marie contacted her. His name is Cameron F Johnson, and he just got his MFA in scoring from…
is that a movie in your pocket…?
We transfer files between machines and locations constantly, and USB flash drives are the method of choice. It just struck me how nifty it is to carry 5 GB of footage around in your pocket. That’s more than is crammed…
finished the phones
I have finished (for now, probably will do some tweaks) all the phone screens that need to be added/replaced in the movie. Stephen is at a good spot with the big window blow out. We got most of the CGI…
Learn something new every day…
I’ve had to learn how to use Adobe After Effects in order for us to continue making large leaps of progress on post. Fortunately the new version has lots of easy ways to do things that I’m sure used to…
the site is working
Just in case you were wondering, it appears our migration from “hellphonefilm.com” to the much-better “hellphone.com” was successful in all regards. It was a little touch-and-go with the store there for a few days, but we appear to have it…
inching ever closer
Every day we get closer and closer to a rough assembly. What that means is all the elements are put in and we get to see how they work together. Elements such as CGI, sounds, effects shots and songs change…
