If you prefer us not to do this please let me know

Mix went fine. Credits went a bit wrong. Had to change the badge on the front of Emily's car. Delivered to Aardman and I think they've delivered to the UK Film Council. That's it.

Forgotten what I used to do now. Been playing Mario a lot.

Keith Reynolds in High Definition

I haven't been able to update the festivals list for Keith Reynolds can't make it tonight in a while but it has recently been selected for competition in Chicago IFF, Bristol's Encounters and one in Taiwan. I think it's also now backed by the British Council.

There's a better quality preview version on Vimeo too:



I made a High Definition version as well if anyone needs that.

Oh. My. God. I really didn't mean to do this.

Here is, multi-award winning, Matthew Walker watching the final, pre-foley/tracklay/mix, version of Francis Cooper. He said, "'s really good" but then he doesn't like the Matthew Broderick Godzilla film so I don't know what to make of that.

This morning I went to have a look at the tracklay and suggested a few changes which were added and then promptly removed because, it turns out, I don't know what I'm talking about. This afternoon I'm going to add the titles and credits. Tomorrow is the final mix. Monday it gets put on tape and delivered.

You know, looking back I think we need to hear that fork...

Had a Foley session this morning. Not done one of those before. I sat on a sofa in front of a big screen and ate strawberry jam on toast while a man in a small room broke celery while another man recorded it and another man supervised and came up with good ideas. Probably one of my favourite mornings in a long time.

Francis has now gone off for Tracklay and my next meeting is on Thursday before the final mix on Friday. I don't have anything to do now except for to come up with a name for it. At the moment it's...

"The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother"

...but nothing is final yet.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Production is over. Didn't have a beer though. Just came home and watched Dragons' Den. It was a repeat as well.

The scars on her thighs faded over the years

Joe delivered the soundtrack on Thursday so we put that in the edit and it works fine. So much so that I'd like to take him and his wife out for dinner and buy them both a beer. Dropped in some more composited shots to send a as-finished-as-possible edit to the sound post production house for them to look at ready for foley on Monday. There are now three more shots to do. One is half animated the others just need compositing, hopefully. I am going to do that compositing this evening.

The plan for tomorrow is to finish off animating the "living room" scene previously listed in the "easy" column but which has turned out to be "quite, inexplicably, hard". Once that is about done I phone "Ben" who will help me render everything out from Final Cut Pro. Then the two of us, and perhaps his wife, go for an end-of-production celebratory beer.

Then there are three more slow motion bits

Animated three more slow motion scenes today and composited one. Also composited the church shot yesterday so that's off the list. Also the "walking past" thing in the column down in the last post is animated and ready to be comped. Ready to comp "cycling" tomorrow too I think... Then there will be two scenes left to animate and three to draw. Totaling five to comp. I think.

3+1+1+1+2+3=11

Just need to adjust that panning shot.*

*mustn't forget this.

Her mouth was open but no words were coming out

Coloured in two squares on my chart today. Hoping to colour one, maybe two, more tomorrow. That would leave me with nine shots left to either animate or composite (or both). The idea of being able to work on something else after this is all done is too appealing for me to not get it done so I'm sure I will.

Here's another thing for me:

Easy	Medium	Hard
Church Living room Tear Spill Cat	Pan 4x4 Screen Cafe	Walking past Cycling

5+4+2=11

Days after he buried his own wife

Been two days and that list is looking pretty similar somehow.

Changed his screensaver to that

Spent today animating a virtual aquarium for one of the new ending shots which has been relaxing. One day I hope to make screensavers for a living.

Wore a shirt to work today too.

I'm now making a list of shots which I've started and have almost finished. Here it is:

• Church - timing/expression/falling smile
• Walking - animate walk/background
• Screen - add rest of background/3D build (and bubbles)
• Flying - do face and hands/arms
• Cycling - rest of animation fix face and comp
• Living room - quite lot
• Coffee cup - extend and comp

Then there are five others.