Pug’s Place

Here’s to working like a madman 18 hours a day.

The director’s cut is now done, weighing in at 8 minutes 54 seconds without counting the credits but counting the introduction. Rotoscoping is not done, and voice overs for Crumu (Stephen) were faked once by me - to absolutely no success. Congratulations Stephen, your voice is unique.

I have about 5 days to finish a final cut of the movie and print the sucker. If I finish early I’ll try to get scene 25 rotoscoped and in the first burn of the final cut, but no guarantees. It’s probable that I’ll call this “done” and we’ll have a few DVDs of the movie without any lightsaber glows, and around Christmastime everyone will get the gift of a rotoscope-inclusive DVD.

Parts of this movie make me laugh real hard. Parts of this movie drag. It’s nevertheless going to be painful to slice and dice it down to a tight comedy fest. Not only does using a razor-blade on hours of hard work suck, but I’ve got to try and keep the story-line coherent while being unwilling and mostly unable to order reshoots. As-is in the director’s cut the story gets across - there’s a bump going from scene 10 to scene 11, but scene 11 is going to be the first thing I look at vaporizing from the final cut.

I already had a lot of respect for movie editors. Now I have a whole lot more, I’ll tell you that…

On top of doing all of this, these 5 remaining days to finish the movie are busy! Going to see Camelot, performed by OWC tomorrow night with Liz and Elf. Saturday is Katie’s birthday, Sunday is Leigh Anne’s birthday. My Grandma Miller just had a hip replacement surgery this morning, and I need to put the clear coat on my car’s new paint soon so that I can rub it mid-next-week.

Yo ho, yo ho…