Luke Pietnik - Collide is Finished... Ish

I should probably say that the final edit is done. Collide is finished. So let me fill you in on what's been happening this week.

We got off to a flying start on Monday, when Will and I went into the editing suite and I began the soundtracking and dubbing, scene by scene. The plan was to continue through the day while the others went off and recorded our first, or final, confrontation scene. However, by the time everyone was leaving for the location, I'd finished mixing all the finished scenes. I therefore went along with Max. The day went well, and we were a lot quicker at setting up and getting the shots done.

Tuesday saw Will and I editing again. Amy had the tape, so we had to wait for a while for her to get it to us. In the meantime though, I made some tweaks to the sound levels, which were neccesary anyway. When the tape finally arrived, Will rough cut the final scene and we brought it into Soundtrack Pro.

Wednesday was the final fling, so to speak. Having finished all the sound editing and colour grading, we began bringing the scenes together into one sequence. We touched up a few of the shots where we thought they needed less or more light.

We had all our material ready for the DVD Studio Pro session on Thursday, and learned a great deal from James about how to put one together. However, after we'd actually burned them, we got a message from max. He said that we needed to change the credits to include Jessica's stage name. There were other issues too. We hadn't put any writers' credits on, and according to Will, the DVD menu colour highlights were too pale to see on a TV set.

Yesterday (Friday), I re-exported the film in apple edit 1 with the corrections, and was going to edit the DVD project slightly. However, the project must have been on Will's log-in, and he was at a meeting at the time. I did tell him what had happened, and I also got copies of the final film, burned onto 2 DVDs as just files. So now the plan is to make the changes to the Studio project on Tuesday, when we'll be having a meeting anyway.

I'm writing this on Saturday, knowing that I need to start getting everything organised for the hand-in on Thursday. As goes the film, I'm fairly proud of what we've achieved. I think this is the first instance this semester where I have completed a project and looked forward to screening it. I'm quite eager to see what everyone thinks of what we've done, and see what all the other groups have come up with, too.

Well, that's it until Thursday, I guess. Bye for now.