11 Days to Go

Ok - The Countdown has begun!

The deadline is nearing, and my goal is to have the film completed by Friday!
Last Friday night, I recorded my friend and bandmate, Steve Jones, for the part of Toast Rack Guy. We recorded it in the computer suite in our Church's conference centre, upstairs in the dark (purely because we couldn't find any lightswitches).

I have taken this today and re-mixed the soundtrack, choosing the best takes, slotting it into the timeline and re-timed the shots. I then doped both shots featuring him, and this makes a total of just over 10 seconds to animate. I prepped the paper, (guillotened and punched) and have set everything up so I can animate everything tomorrow. By Wednesday, I hope to have it all digital traced and animated in After FX.

Meanwhile, I will continue to build up my production folder. So, the wait might finally be over and a finished film could be ready within days! I am very excited - and always pleased to be actually animating again. It feels like when you make a film, very little of it is the actual animation...

Over and out.
~breadmaker

Editing

Aloha!

Well, today's been cool - let me tell you about it:

I got in today to find out the editor guy, Derek would be here. I wasn't going to see him as I thought my film was quite tight, but when I asked James for his opinion on the new trolley sequence, he referred me to Derek.

He's a really nice guy, enjoyed and laughed at the film (in the intended way, not durogatory) and gave me some tips.

> 1st scene, pull out Andrew's audio a little
> Bread Title - maybe put over a supermarket bkg. Not important, but may be nice.
> Fred - centralise and zoom in tighter [COMPLETED].
> Sandwhiches - Add SFX for picking up the bag
> Trolleys - Fine, nice space.
> Toaster - add a beat after first scene [COMPLETED].

As you can see, I've already completed a couple, two were just comments and the other two are just sound-remixing issues. Easily done.

So, the trolley scene is completed, rendered and implemented; it wasn't hard picking the right length and shot, I batch produced the frames through Photoshop, and even made a short 2-min Easter Egg for the DVD, documenting the trolleys. :o) YOUTUBE doesn't want to uplaod it today, but if I can get it to work I will post it here.

Hopefully going to get the Toast rack guy's new voice this weekend. Let's put an end to this delay!

~breadmaker.

Checklist April

Aloha!

Hope you ahd a great easter - Africa was truly amazing - God did some fantastic miracles and we saw hundreds of lives changed, with hope and faith for their futures!

But, it's back to Bread. Yesterday I filmed trolleys around Tesco's on Cardiff Road and will try to get them implemented as a beat near the end - in the style of 'The Office'. Mike Bithell showed me a couple of episodes so i was able to realise what was required.

Here's my list of things to do in the next 3 weeks:

TITLES:
New Voices
End

RE-EDIT TOASTER:
New Bkg
Edit
Time

RE-RECORD TOAST RACK GUY:
Record
Edit
Dope
Animate
Digital Trace
Implement

TROLLEYS
Transfer
Timeline
Export Frames
Render
Replace
Sound Mix

EYES?

FINISH PRODUCTION FOLDER:
Complete Schedule Weekly
Evaluation
Production Stills
Festival Entry Form
BackUp All files onto DVDs

...so it's not really that much. Most jobs are small and easily done.
Stay Tuned.

~breadmaker