Standoff: she done. Not since the halcyon days of Bone Daddy have I dragged my ass on a project to such an inexcusable degree. Motherfucker's only four minutes long. Shieshhh. Still, I'm happy with it. It would have been nice for it to end up being a bit slicker than it is, but there are more successes overall than I was expecting so no worries. My only project for 2006. Shieshhh again.
Digital grading: the process by which everything takes way too fucking long particularly in Premiere which is not, to be fair, even remotely a digital grading program.
To make up for the lag, a fascinating glimpse into the past! In my meanderings today I found an old WordPerfect file which contains, I think, the three potential "image link" layouts for Project 6. (Project 6 was an anthology of short films by the FORPers whose opening images were linked with the closing images of the film that preceded them in sequence.) We picked images out of hat a few times to get a series of links that we thought were good - we ended up going with the third set. Notably, this was back when Daniel Arato was the sixth filmmaker, before he was replaced by the Ferret.
Version I:
Dave: Clock/crucifix falls off the wall --> Refrigerator, all shelves full except one which is empty
Matt: Refrigerator, all shelves full except one which is empty --> 2 people in a kitchen, cooking
Dan A: 2 people in a kitchen, cooking --> Man puts head in oven
Chris: Man puts head in oven --> Cat cuddling an action figure
Dan C: Cat cuddling an action figure --> A face, looking back in fright
Brandy: A face, looking back in fright --> lock/crucifix falls off the wall
Version II:
Dave: A book falls, crushing a black egg --> plumber bum
Matt: plumber bum --> a girl slaps the face of a boy wearing makeup
Dan A: a girl slaps the face of a boy wearing makeup --> a person draws on someone's head
Chris: a person draws on someone's head --> a man hammers a sponge
Dan C: a man hammers a sponge --> a woman outside a building, wearing a sandwich board
Brandy: a woman outside a building, wearing a sandwich board --> A book falls, crushing a black egg
Version III:
Dave: A man stands outside a nightclub, bleeding from the head, holding a hockey stick --> a discarded porno's pages flapping in the wind
Matt: a discarded porno's pages flapping in the wind --> an orange napkin, creased, under knife and fork
Dan A: an orange napkin, creased, under knife and fork--> a man submerged in a bathtub, wearing shorts
Chris: a man submerged in a bathtub, wearing shorts --> a person throwing dice
Dan C: a person throwing dice --> a hand reaching
Brandy: a hand reaching --> A man stands outside a nightclub, bleeding from the head, holding a hockey stick
A not-entirely-fascinating glimpse into the past! I also found all of my various Project 6 script drafts; when we settled on my "flapping porno to orange napkin" requirement, I wrote five or six complete shorts which fell into three basic stories: the one that went on to become Monosperm, one where the porno is found by a boy who uses it to practice life drawing before being ratted out to his conservative parents by a na'er-do-well sister, and one where two men argue in what turns out to be God's napkin. I have long nursed the desire to follow through and complete the set.
Anyways. There's a minus-thirty wind chill warning in place for Toronto. I shall order a pizza and watch yet more DVDs!
