rough cut time

gonna get some dinner, then it's gonna be rough cut time...

As much as I wanted to get it out tonight, it wasn't happening. Too much mental angst in my brain causing me to slow down and not feel driven enough.

But after looking at my footage I'm feeling more confident I can actually scrap it together and make it work.

It will be a nice little movie, so if you want to have a party, beer, popcorn, whatever and laugh your pants off with a silly ass film, you'll get that from this bastard. I've killed myself to make it, lost weight, broke a tooth, sprained my wrist, gotten f'd up in a lot of ways, nearly got mugged by wacko jacko in the woods, discovered some ladie's phone who's probably gotten killed in there sadly, what else, just been an adventure this thing. And finally with merely less than a month left it's gonna be over. My apologies and I mean this to all the elder folks who probably wanted to check out the final thing and didn't live long enough to see it happen, so sorry for being so slow... I mean, I know probably some kids were like little kids when this started and are now well into their teens or early adulthood and are like not giving a f about this anymore....

But I do, I grew up on static and I devoted so much time to the series, to following phil Lamar's career, I'm blown away that he's not gotten a live action treatment by now, It's just utterly unbelievable crap.

And if nothing else comes of this, I've broken in my acting/filmmaking skills so if I ever end up getting into it DOUBT IT, I have experience and am not some noob.

If there's any truth at all to what old film makers say it's this. Go out and shoot. It's honest to GOD the only way you'll get good. It's the only way.... If I didn't go out and figure out little nuances and ways to make this work, I'd be lost still. Researching it all day probably wouldn't have taught me how to make these things as much as going out and attempting them.

You can't read about doing like areal shots with a balloon. I just had to figure out the hard way that the wind was going to be a huge issue etc... like literally the shot I got was one of dozens where the wind died down for a brief second, f's sake...

And like I previously mentioned, it's infinitely easier to do close ups (and you need lots of close ups as I discovered.) on a green screen than wasting your time and going out and shooting it in the real location...

Hell of a massive epic film. I'm looking forward to comparing mine to the one those facebook guys are working on... Mine's more comic bookish if that means anything. Theirs looks more serious, so we'll see. Of course the big dogs with the budget and money have been able to do better stuff so I'm not thinking mine will be better, but mine isn't just a hokey dokey crappy little youtube fanfilm, it's gonna be big time...

alright, I'll be back with the rough cut. It will have continuity errors all kinds of off bits but it should give you an idea of what I'm trying to create here.

Upon SOLO's release I will hell or high water be releasing the full cut. As far as special editions go, that will happen in time to be sure, there's things I want to do. I've had to cut an entire sequence for time cuz it just wasn't pushing the story forward, might show up in the special edition box set... gonna have to learn to master a dvd/bluray and stuff. I did shoot little vlogs while shooting. So there will be a behind the scenes docu kinda thing like the big guys do...

alright, i'm out, hasta luego