Rough Cut - Completed!

I just completed the rough cut a couple of minutes ago - inbetween watching The Wire, packing to go back home and shamelessly playing video games (Hey, I've finished university, I can be lazy now).

But of course, the edit is only one such task in the Post Production process. For those who are not too familar, here's a quick checklist of stuff we've still got to do on the film

- Render out cut to give to composer - so they can start composing the soundtrack to the film

- Record Foley - Foley is an sound process where a whole track in the edit is dedicated to making the real life sounds of the film - clothes, footsteps, gun handling, moving boxes, so on. It's a dark, unnoticed art - in that when a sound is missing, you notice it straight away, but when it's there, you don't conciously register it.

- Record Atmosphere - Another dark art of the Sound Edit - layering atmos, or a "wildtrack", over an entire scene to plug any gaps in dialogue, and also works very well to set the scene - Cutting the visual also means cutting the audio, but the atmos will be laid across all the clips to hide those cuts and create a desired mood.

- Render out footage to give to the visual effects artist - here, we add some effects that we couldn't do on the day - enhancing blood, bullet holes, so on and so forth. This will work with the real effects in order to create the best possible image

- Colour correction / Grading - This is a process where we smooth out the visual a lot more - and also create the desired look of the film, warmer tones for outside, darken the image to create a murky feel, so on.

Crikey! Still a lot to do. And when that's all done, we can start thinking about sending it to festivals, editing the "Behind the Scene's" stuff and more! 

And probably signing on!

Lots of love,

David!