The film is really looking like a film now! Adding credits and ADR has made such a difference! Glen and I are constantly amazed at the growth of the film. How the editing and sound work can define and add to the story. We swear that in the future we will "have no wine before it's time". Wishing now we hadn't had to send it into festivals and so on before this point. BUT...there are always deadlines. And the curse of the indi-filmmaker is that you have to meet deadlines before you are finished...for what else? Financial reasons. The festival circuit is truly important to the film and we have been planning and plotting our strategy. The larger more prestigious fests won't take you if you're not a "Premiere", World, North American, European, National, etc. So...if we didn't want to wait a year to out the film (which we could not afford to do) then we had to submit our works in progress and HOPE... Hoping that someone can see what a great film you have before it's finished is a game of chance. We toss the dice and hope.
Our days these days are spent working in the nuance of sound; how a ticking sound pulls your eye to the watch, how a heartbeat will drive the music, etc. It's fun and rewarding. ...And very time consuming. In between we strategize and fill out entries to the big festivals, get press kits together and plot our next projects. Writing, financing, always moving towards the next one(s), while we work to put the finishing touches on this one. A filmmaker's work is never done.
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