Short Film: Update #33 picking back up

The first half of this week didn’t go especially well, if I’m being totally honest. The (brand new) SSD I purchased over the weekend (see last weeks post) ended up being faulty, so I had to take that back. Then I had to wait a few days for a new one. So, yeah, that was fun. Resulting in a bit of a delay in being able to crack on with my project.

But, I was able to do a little work while I was waiting, as I copied a few assets over from my backup drive to my Mac, enabling me to do some stuff, albeit in a slightly preoccupied manner. I picked a couple of things which were more ‘low key’/ parts that didn’t need the full Premiere project or anything like that. Meaning I was able to drop them in the project once that was all back up and running again.

One was this re-do of the ‘drink shot’, which will become a photograph the protagonist takes in the film. The old version is first, followed by the re-do:

As the first version took a while to create, I kind of convinced myself that I liked it or that it was good enough to stay in the project. But the more I watched the film through, I knew that my instinct was correct and that I’d need to re-do it. The second version, in my opinion, is much better and deserving of a place in the film. I’m not even sure what the first one is trying to be, to be honest! But anyway, I guess I don’t need to think about that one anymore!

And since the enforced break because of, well, the (hard drive) break, I have been very, very productive. I blazed through a load of my to do list, which included fixing some things that had been playing on my mind for quite a while. For some reason (probably because of having a bit of time off the project), a few trickier bits seemed to just come easier. Not that I’m complaining, mind. Meaning the visuals really are, nearly almost done! I think the fact that the new SSD is a lot faster than my poor old HDD, is making my time editing my project a whole lot smoother, because it’s actually running as it should in Premiere. This is even with several layers of PNG sequences all stacked on top of each other. Whereas when playing through on my previous drive, it would skip/ stall as it just couldn’t keep up, making editing extremely frustrating (and difficult). So maybe the fact that the hard drive broke was actually a good thing. And I’m not just trying to be positive for the sake of it either!

Despite wanting to share a few more of the bits I finished this week as I’m kind of excited about (and proud of) them (especially one shot), I haven’t decided if they’re parts I want to publish prior to finishing the film. I think it’s best not to give everything away beforehand, at least not publicly anyway. Maybe in the trailer, when that’s ready, but we shall see… I held back parts of my previous short, and I think that was the correct decision, so apologies for the teaser but I guess you’ll just have to wait! So on that note, I’ll leave this one at that. There won’t be one of these next week, so see you in two! xo