OK. So that night Tony and I went through and edited the footage. It was tough, because there wasn't really much of a through line with it. But I managed to get something reasonably coherent out of it.
The next day, once again, I was hoping everyone would show up at 10. I think around 1 my friend Liana showed up to help. She couldn't come over the previous day because of a previous engagement. I told her we were just waiting for Lisa to show up and our Camera Guy and we could get started. Not long after CG arrived. I tried getting in contact with Lisa again, but to no avail. I think I was starting to get a little pissed off at this point.
We showed Liana and CG the rough cut. Liana got a kick out of it. I don't remember too well what CG's reaction was, other than to say it wasn't complimentary. Around three or so, one of the guys from yesterday finally showed up, so we decided to re shoot the ending of Tony's little opus. We quickly decided on how it would look and got to work. I was a little stricter this time. Giving CG the amount of latitude I had yesterday didn't work, so I reigned in the leash a fair bit. We got the new ending shot, and I tried Lisa one more time. Nothing. So, around 4 or so, with the light fading fast - again - we headed back out to the graveyard to finish the film.
We got to the graveyard and got set up. I was kinda furious by this point. We shot everything we needed, which I think involved all the footage for the big effects shot towards the end. CG was still shutting me out as much as possible, but I tried to maintain things as much as possible. We got what we needed, packed up and left. I quickly stopped on the way home to take a photo that eventually became the poster for "Why Not?". At home, we reviewed the footage to see what we had. CG had screwed up a shot again which we were quite ticked off at, but I decided to ignore it. I showed CG some of my other stuff, something bad and something good, we talked about possibly teaming up for some other stuff and that was it. I went back to the editing suite, we made up the best short we could from the footage we had, and that was it. Tony thought the final film wasn't too bad and asked if we could enter it in the competition anyway. I refused. I knew we would have something to enter one day, but when we did I wanted it too be the best thing we could make with what we had available. There were just too many compromises made during this shoot and I really didn't think it was representative of what we could do.
A few months after, I got my high end camera, which turned out to be a better make and model than CG's camera. So, they way is open for our own entry, which will succeed or fail on our own merits, rather than the bullshit games caused by conflicting egos.
Anyway. Here's what came out of that weekend. it's not great, but . . . well, it's not great. What the hell, we learned.
1 comment:
That was really cool actually-kinda abstract until you figure out whats actually going on. Shame about all the trouble (sour grapes perhaps)-i think your ideas are great though, and not just because your both good friends. I love the innocence and neat simplicity of what you've done.
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