The Finish Line!
 

Just emailed my links to Dylan: I'm going out of town without internet access tomorrow morning and I need to spend today finding creative ways to pack liquids and gels. So I had to finish up last night.

It feels good to be done! Hopefully, everybody else will post a message here when they finish: I'll be interested to read later how many folks finish a little early vs. get done at 11:59PM PST Sunday night. :)

I'll be gone until next Thursday: if films start getting posted before then, don't treat my lack of feedback as a lack of interest.

Good luck, everybody!

Bill

I have yet to even start! We have a script but couldn't shoot last weekend due to schedule. If Saturday is not Sunny, the whole thing goes down the tubes.

Curse the sun...

I finish writing today, shoot tomorrow and edit Sunday.

Well I shot most of mine already. I have to shoot a bit more on Saturday but Im editing every other scene and sliding that in later. Sunday I have a paintball tournament so ill probably be up lady saturday night finishing mine. Right now though I am working on making it shorter because im way over the 3 minute mark as it is.

I had all the shooting done by last Sunday and was dragging my heels editing this week. I'm completley finished with the edit, but since I have no hosting site I'll have to find the sweetest compression to use for Video.google(any suggestions for google compression?) since they recompress.

wrote the script, Refined the script, rewrote the script, rerefined the script, finally ready to shoot tomorrow but of course 60% chance of rain, sooo looks like there may be a complete rewrite, if worse comes to worse I'll just shoot a music video for blind melon's "No rain" or something like that.

Wahoo! But I still want to shoot the scritp that's written so instead of one movie I may end up with two but only one will be in ::ahem:: "competition"

Well,

We're half-way through shooting, and about 60% of the indoor stuff is done. Still missing are the most cheesy (should I say dramatic) indoor scenes, and the finale, which is an outdoor shot, tomorrow in the EARLY morning.

This leaves Saturday for FX, composition, rotoscoping and editing, and Sunday for sinal touches and scoring. Looks like I might even finish this one!

Hugo

Just came indoors for a short break while my dad's at the hardware store around the corner (he makes a great prop master); making good progress with set dressing, with only some minor woodwork left to do. Everything should be ready to go by the end of the day, leaving all day tomorrow to shoot my footage and, like Hugo, do my editing and compositing. All I have to say is thank God for backburner!

Ok, i'm done. well almost I think. No, I'm done. except for the intro, I think, mmmm, done?

Well, I got hit with the first, practical, idea last NIGHT! Now all I have to do is wait for (insert timpani here) "THE SUN" to come up..... If all goes well; 1) it won't suck, and b) it'll keep me off the "Wall of Shame" for this one.

I'm on schedule
 

I told my friends who signed up to be crew that it would be
- flounder with no ideas thursday and friday
- get with the writer on saturday to bang out the script (thankfully she had ideas)
- shoot on Sunday
- edit all week
- panicked reshoots of things that didn't work on Saturday (yup, I called that right)
- finish editing, compress and post on Sunday.

Actually I'm going to try to do my panicked reshoots this morning and finish editing this afternoon so that I can go to tonight's party and tomorrow's baseball game guilt free (and laptop free).

I'm done, I'm done, I'm done [happy feet dance]!!!! Talk about guerrilla editing! I shot, edited, composited, rendered and uploaded everything in a 12-hour period. The bottle-of-wine-happy-hour at 4:00 this afternoon delayed things a bit.....but it's online and the link submitted. *phew!*

...and NOTHING to watch on a Saturday night....don't that just beat all!

God, what a miserable day; all my footage, as usual, is too damned dark. I'll have to invest in a decent field monitor sooner or later, 'cause right now I can't judge squat as far as color and brightness are concerned.

Got a very good idea of what went wrong, and I'm coming up with some ideas right now for the panicked reshoots taking place in the morning. It'll be down to the wire, for sure, and I've no doubt I'll be up 'til three AM (glad this ends on Pacific time) cutting, rendering and cursing.

Done as in Done
 

Wrapped it up the way I wanted so have to say I am satisfied with the outcome so I sent the links to Dylan. With this occasion I want to thank you all for the feedback given on my previous entries as it was very helpful in getting this done even better.

Good luck to everyone :)

Im done, this was harder than I thought. This was a learning experience for sure. Can't wait to see everyone's films.

Mine went out tonight.

Robert: that's why I use zebra stripes....

Indeed, I love my zebras as well, for use outdoors or in otherwise brightly lit scenes, but if nothing in the frame reaches 100 or 70 IRE, they're not of much use (right?). If everything's darker than 70, the camera--a VX2000--won't tell me how much darker it is; the zebras just won't show up. But then, maybe I shouldn't have everything so dark after all. I'm going to be using more light today anyway, I'll see what I get.

Done
 

Phew. That one went well I think. We had a style we were going for as we wrote the script and I feel like we achieved it. So regardless of any other outcomes - like winning or making my mother laugh - I'm happy the result.

Good luck everyone.
Smile,
Kris

Got it in the mail lastnight, and have successfully avoided the "Wall Of Shame"

Whoot Whoot!

The hog has been tied and the link sent. yippeee, I'm 2 for 2.

I am worried that nobody will understand ours. Oh well, my friends and I had fun and that is what counts I guess. Good luck everyone.

Mine is uploaded and ready for viewing. I think we might turn this into a 48 hour contest since most of us seem to have waited until at least Saturday (yesterday) to actually do anything.

I wrote it out Friday in final form. Asked an actress friend from "Cat Fight at OK and Corral" to do the monologue. We shot at noon Saturday (She did great - thanks Natalie). Shot a secondary scene at 4pm Saturday and by midnight had a very workable edit. Tweaked sound, found and added a score this morning. Rendered while the wife and I saw a movie and hit the bookstore this afternoon. Uploaded it a few minutes ago and now, I'm looking for the address to send Dylan the link.

See you all at the finish line. I am wondering how many people actually finish this one?

Sean

I am done!
 

I finished (two in a row). I uploaded to my server a few minutes ago and sent my link to Dylan at 9:12 pm CST.

We did a little more work on this one, I had the story last friday, shot Saturday, decided that there was NO WAY that was going to fit into 3 minutes, re-wrote the entire story, re-shot Thursday, edited thu and fri, shot more on sat, and basically finished.

We spent Sunday relaxing, drinking beer, and watching computers render, (then we fixed a mistake), re-render, fix, re-render, well you get the idea.

Congratulations to all who finish.

The bomb is armed and delivered. This post partially belongs under the "what if it stinks" thread, but I'm too tired to mess with more than one. Times like this I wonder why I go to so much trouble and work for what now looks like such a dumb story, but maybe I'll feel better about it after a few night's sleep.

G'nite, all. Kudos and best o' luck to all who got movies submitted. :)

I'm still the procrastinating king Lorinda!
 

I was so proud that I actually finished my film up a day and a half early, that I went back and re-edited a whole bunch more. Then I had problems and had a hell of a time getting it encoded properly and loaded up.

The more things change, the more I stay the same!

Mike

Win lose or draw, this contest got me off the couch and filmming again, exactly what it was supposed to do. Thanks to the DVC team and good luck you all.

I hit "Select all after playline" to move some clips. I forgot to deselect them. I tapped "Delete" to delete what I thought was one clip. Undo stopped working. And yet, somehow, I recut the last half of my movie, compressed a Windows Media 9 version, uploaded it to my website, and got the link to Dylan with thirty-three minutes to spare.

Sweet fancy Moses, what a ride! Every single shot in this movie--every piece of live action footage, every rendered effect, and every credit--was done today. Woke up at nine thirty AM, just finished. Never thought I could do it, and was ready to quit after the horrible day I had yesterday, but man, what they say about persistence? They're right. I think I learned that last time, but it takes a few similar scenarios to drill that kind of lesson into my thick skull.

I look forward to the other films with great anticipation. Good night.

In with 20 minutes to go! Whew...I really shouldn't have left compression till the last minute.

Best of luck to everyone!

Well, I sent in my very first DVC entry with about a half an hour to spare. It's been a very busy, but fun week. It's certainly left me with stories to tell!

Thanks for a great motivation to shoot something and congrats to all who finished.

Surprise!
 

I can't believe I did it... I'm now uploading my finished piece (I will send the link shortly Dylan). I managed to make what media I had work. I just couldn't let it go.

I have about an 1 1/2 hours of sleep... now I'm dropping out.. onto my pillow that is : )

Clap off.

Aargh
 

Well, I've been with intermittent internet access for the past couple of days.

I did send in my entry for DVC... But do think it'll be in the "stink" category. Procastination led me to a rush job (strange camera angles, line crosses, you name it), and doing a rush job left me with no time to add a soundtrack, which takes most of the fun out of watching it - since there were dramatic pauses there for music that never happens. :D

On a positive note, when it is released, it'll be a good lesson for someone looking for what NOT to do on a DVC competition, so it always IS a learning experience after all.

Let's wait for the release, and I'll post the disaster with all the gory details.

Best

Hugo