Of cabbages and Kings

Well, the rough cut is done.

Well, the rough draft of the rough cut is done, anyway. I haven't posted an update for the last two weeks because I've been busy every weekend with stuff, but in between visits from old friends and trips to Phoenix, I've been chugging away at the editing. I spent some serious time this week working on the party scene and finished it all up on Friday. By Sunday afternoon I'd gotten it onto DVD, and Sunday evening I showed it to select group of people who were involved (somehow we're all ending up in LA... hmm).

Anyway, the rough rough cut clocks in at 74 minutes. That's going to change a little, since I want to cut out some stuff and add some other stuff, but it won't change too terribly much. It'll stay over 60 minutes for sure, since that's kind of the minimum running time for a feature, but I doubt it'll get up to even 80 minutes by the time it's all said and done. So it's kind of a short movie, but that's fine. For those who like it, it delivers its message quickly. For those who don't like it, at least it's over fast.

The group I saw it with tonight seemed to like it, so I take that as a good sign. There's still an awful lot of work to get done on it of course - color correction, filtering, rotating... and that's not even talking about the sound. The sound is going to be an adventure in and of itself...

Anyway I'm still hopeful we'll have our debut in Sept. or so. Stay tuned for further updates!