Musings of an Idiot

Rough Cut Begins

Well - watched the assembly for 'Five' a few times now and made some notes about the changes I need to make. Fortunately - the list is only 2 pages long right now and once I implement those changes I think the movie will be in a much better shape. Sound design will obviously make a huge difference to the overall product. I have been talking with Benji and we will be aiming to do a proper 5.1 mix this time around - it will take us a bit of extra time to get it right but I think it is totally worth it.

So I have now officially moved the project into the rough cut stage and have started working on the changes and it definitely takes more time than the first assembly because you are trying to make something work - which means going back to the source footage and reanalyzing the footage from that scene and seeing if there is anything else you can find to achieve what you want to show. When thing starts working - the amount of satisfaction you get is immense.

Freelance work at TVNZ is going great and I am loving it. Shift times vary between 0700-1530 or 1530-2400 on any given day and it works out nicely because it still gives me time even during my work days to do a little bit of editing. Overall the freelance work is a great balance to the editing I am doing and I am a happy chap.

I received a letter from Department of Internal Affairs letting me know that my application for New Zealand citizenship will be assigned to a case officer in approx. 8 weeks time and that I need to send all my original documents to them for the same - which I promptly did - so I guess I won't be travelling out of the country for the next 3 months or so. Heeheee...

And in completely unrelated news - I spent a fair bit of time arguing with billing department at Telecom since they mucked up the amounts for our broadband plan without any fault of ours. It has been time consuming but relatively pain free as I explained to them the whole situation and as to how Telecom was charging us more - they have sorted out it out for now and have credited our account back for the extra money charged but here is keeping fingers crossed that I don't have to go through the same exercise again next month.

Till later,
Amit

Labels: Five, New Zealand, Post Production, TVNZ

posted by Amit @ 10:31 PM