Nemesis Progress Update - 20/04/16

This is a progress update for Wednesday the 20th of April, regarding the progress of both production and post-production of the short film Nemesis. This week has been an interesting week so far. As it is supposed to be the second week of production, we have ended up editing all week instead. This is due to the fact we started filming a week earlier over the eastern holidays. This leaves us only two shoots away from finishing the film. Aside from the organisation of those shoots we have been left with a lot of time to start the edit early. Last week toward the end of the week we made steady progress toward starting a general timeline for all of the scenes which we would add to as we went along and finished each scene. This week we have continued that and have now made a huge amount of progress. We have roughly ten minutes edited, which need a few remaining tweaks and some missing sound. I plan to get my crew together to have a meeting at the end of this week to plan out what we will do over the next two weeks before the deadline. I hope that everyone will come together and contribute within the post production process whether that be to get a cutaway, create some foley or to research something that will further the process. I would not like to see anyone with 'nothing to do'. There is always something to do. 

Below is a shot of the current timeline we have on Avid. The gaps which are missing are the scenes we have either yet to shoot or the ones we are yet to edit. 

Tomorrow we are shooting early in Seaham. Organisation wise it has been a very quick turn around which I am happy with. We had very little time to get the actors and crew together so I am happy we have been able to pull it off. The scene we are shooting is currently missing from the timeline. That will give us time to return back to the edit suite for the rest of the day to continue the edit. The main reason I am pushing for progress all day every day is to meet two deadlines. The deadline for the project being the 6th of May, aswell as the other deadline on the 1st of May which myself and Yiannis as producer are pushing to meet. This is the deadline for the Cardiff short film festival which we are hoping to enter the film into. Below is a link to the website displaying the information of the annual event held in Cardiff.

http://www.cardifffilmfest.org.uk

It would be brilliant to enter the film into this competition as it is far from local. Technically speaking we are going international as it is in Wales. I feel that enough hard work has gone into this project so it makes sense to try and get as much coverage as we can for the finished film. Despite this, we have spoken about it many times and we doubt that the version of the film we enter into the Cardiff short film festival will be the same version we hand in for our uni project. We assumed that although we may rush to get things done in time for that deadline we will still have the rest of that week to make some alterations. That week I aim to be mostly finished the timeline itself so we can start on colour correction. I have looked into how we can make the most of colour correction and I am sure that will take the rest of the week to complete.