An Update!

Hey,

Few updates. I went over to Ann's house with Neil to dub her lines from the garden scene. Then we drove to Ian's house and did his. I've put the scene together and it's come quite good. It's our first fully dubbed scene, from voices to background sound, but it came good. In fact, the sound quality is probably the best we've got in the whole film so we're probably going to start doing all scenes like this from now on.

However, dubbing will bring about problems in its own way. The lines must be synchronised with the person's mouth. The tone of the voice must match the actor's expressions. Also it means it will take up more space on my computer... something which we are soon out of.

This coming Sunday we should be going back to Mdina to redo the talking scene with a new and improved script... It's not surprising really, seeing as the previous script was written past midnight the night before after coming back from a meal with friends...

Also I finally heard back from the filter people! My filter should be arriving pretty soon. It's called a Day For Night filter, and basically arranges sunlight to look like moonlight, so soon we can start have night time scenes! Can't wait! Although we don't really need it for Blood Money, but a lot of the sequel is set at night.

Anyway, that's all for now. Keep checking for more updates!

Bit Burnt Out

Hey.

I know it's been a while since I (or any of us for that matter) last posted, so I'm going to fill you all in.

I'm actually feeling pretty burnt out with the film at the moment... But I don't think it's the fact that it's taking so long to finish that gets to me. It's just extremely stressful organising days to meet and tryin to plan out the scenes... I don't expect the actors to have to do that themselves, they're just friends who were asked to be in the film. But if someone wanted to be credited as a creator of the film, then I'd expect that person to dedicate as much effort as I to get this film done soon.

For example, Christmas has come and gone and we have filmed a grand total of 2 times. We had ample chance to film, to meet and plan out all that was left, but we didn't. On a more positive note, we filmed at Ann's grandmother on Wednesday. We had 6 hours to shoot 5 scenes. Luckily Neil and I wrote out a schedule so that we would know how long we have for each scene. It worked quite well. We finished on time anyway.

Unfortunatly it was extremely windy that day. 60kmh wind in Mellieha according to maltaweather. The dialogue in the garden scene has been ruined by the wind and has to be dubbed completely. The rest came okay I suppose. I haven't really edited anything properly yet, haven't been in the mood...

Will post some screenshots of the scene later.

Happy New Year

We'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. May this year be a good year for all.