Post Update

Wrap Cake
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I am very happy to say that we have a composer! Christy Carew is the lovely new addition to the End crew. Christopher and I are very excited to see the touches she is going to add to the film.

We are entering the home stretch now. We achieved a picture lock on Saturday, so now my time is being devoted to creating the credits and overseeing the rest of the elements that are going to polish off End - sound design, dialogue editing, color timing, score and the final sound mix. I have many, many balls in the air right now and I am truly wishing we were a big budget production so I could have a post production coordinator instead of coordinating everything myself! I guess I will just have to add that to my list of things I want when I have a big girl budget for a movie.

I have also been working on getting all the elements for the press kit together and been waiting on a poster draft from Kevin. I am confident that it is going to be phenomenal because the photos Regan took for us at the photo shoot were absolutely amazing.

I know that I (and the rest of the post-production crew) still have a lot ahead, but I am finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and that is a very nice feeling. I am really looking forward to showing off the finished product to the crew and trying to get it to festivals and garner interest in the film. I am hoping and praying that End will be the start of a great era for everyone that helped make this movie.

I Like It Rough.

Holy shit! I’m not the kind of guy that likes to count his chickens before they hatch but I’ll be damned if we don’t maybe have something here.

I’ve mentioned multiple times that no matter how hard I try I have this latent fear that no matter what this whole endeavor, this whole movie isn’t going to work. Well, I saw the first rough cut of the film the other night and it doesn’t just work, it REALLY works! It works so well that there was more than one occasion that I forgot I wrote the darn thing. I don’t want to get too into it now since the movie is still in very rough form but I was pretty much floored by everything I saw, even in its very rough basic form.

From day one I’ve felt that there are certain things, certain elements and scenes that simply MUST work. If not no matter how good everything else might be audiences won’t buy into the film. They won’t allow themselves to be engaged by it and as a result the film will reap us the benefits we are hoping it will.

I could not be happier to report that those scenes, those moments and things that are so integral to the very essence of the movie don’t just work; they excel in every possible way. At one point I had to stop the footage and allow the goose bumps on my skin to go down and my breathing to return to normal as I realized we NAILED it.

Like I said I’m not trying to get people too worked up yet or cash a check the movie can’t write but I am a very happy man right now. As a writer, producer and simply as a dude that’s been working his ass off at this for a long time now… well, I couldn’t be more ecstatic. As I told Megan, we’re gonna need to start looking into frequent flyer miles, cuz we’re gonna need them.

Zombie Zin

Zombie Zin
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I showed Christopher the first rough cut last night. I think he liked it. While we were watching the cut he had us break out his bottle of Zombie Zin that I got him for his wrap present.

Rough Cut #1

Project 365 - Day 347
Originally uploaded by mrbosslady

Bill and I finished rough cut number one last weekend. It clocked in at over eighty minutes. Woot! Now we are refining the cut bit by bit until I am happy and nothing drives Bill crazy.

Before long Bill will be color correcting, Beth will be in the midst of sound design, our score will be completed and we'll have a genuine gosh darn movie.

This is pretty cool.

Everything is going to be ok

So yes, I am quoting the movie. I am doing so because yesterday I got laid off from my job. This doesn't sadden me because I have put more love, passion and ambition into End than I have in any job I've ever had. I have to be thankful for my job at Money Mailer because not only did it help me finance End but the schedule just helped me put enough time into pre-production to get End filmed. But just like Christopher wrote in the script "Everything is going to be OK."

Now back to post-production.