its looking pretty good now, i've moved the timing forward, im now expecting it to be finished possibly before the next 'madcap' family in hollyoaks moves in, and long before the hostilities in iraq have ended :)

written work, got a couple of hundred words pretty perfect, and i think my appendix is basically fleshed out :) ... ...not in a gross way...

...some more quick editing on monday/tuesday leaving wednesday/thursday for any final revisions after people have given me feedback :) so far people have only been able to see the intro part finished, and its been positive-ish :)

Ideally were i to do the project again, more time would have been left to work off of feedback, but that just aint possible this time round the wagon trail darlin'

see you laters, urm, people who read this stuff : )

more filming

60% done, more like 90% considering all i have to do to some shots is apply a background. More confident about finishing on time. Have made start on the written wrok, should finish the first section tomrrow.

build

set up all the poles and stuff for the green screen frame and set it up with some help... got some shots... applying the chroma key settings takes ages but the results have been quiete impressive... final cut is annoying but ive got to know how to use it know and it seems to be better than the other software

forgot

forgot about this, will see if i can get the green screen tomorow

amy has been fairly ill, and the days have been dark, making things difficult... i have a morrisey song as backup, where i can apply some of the ideas i developed to it if i need to.

Becuase of this change of plans ive had to think through using plug in baby by muse, as there is an acoustic version of the song, it just means i or an actor has to mime to the words, as amy cannot mime to a male voice it would be wierd :P

Amy 2

Bad Points

>The intro could be cut down
>Unclean sound quality
>no lyrics
>boring editing
>not enough takes done in pre
>mise-en-scene
>no narrative
>none of the animation/cgi i want to include

Good Points

>lighting
>composition is okish
>synched pretty well
>one particular shot is very good and with better mise-en-scene i might use it in the cw, will have to re-shoot...
>feeling of intimacy achieved?? and of isolation as it goes on?? hope so

John

Just messing about with the software, as i didnt do any of the more complicated editing stuff last year really.

Animation1

This is really terrible, its done on my phone without a tripod, and you can ignore the last 20 seconds lol but anyway if you can imagine the underlying image as being greescreen you can see the transition would work pretty well, has a surreal quality.