Our newest doggie Frances.


YUMI TIME

I've cut Yumi in Love down to 92 minutes. Wow.

I also finished cutting a trailer this afternoon, but I'm not sure whether or not to put it online.

I'm in love with it. The actors in the film are so great. But I don't want to give too much away.

SOUND

I've spoken to a couple of really great people about doing the sound. We'll see how that pans out over the next couple of weeks. I'm hoping to have a sound mix and everything complete within a month.

I'm also wondering if there's any point in using a sweet trailer to try and secure some "completion" funding for the film. It would sure be cool to have some "name brand" music in the film, some Technicolor style colour correction, etc...it would not be sweet, however, to wait and wait for applications and paperwork. That's why you shoot a film on your credit cards, to avoid waiting!

BITS

Still need to find a way to clear up one storyline. I had to cut a WHOLE bunch of stuff that clarified a certain plotline because it just didn't look good enough. Now I'm thinking that post audio might be the only way to fix it up, along with maybe a quick pickup shot here or there. We'll see. It's only one storyline out of a whole bunch, but it needs to get cleared up.

I was worried about 11 characters in 90 minutes, but Altman had 24 major characters in Nashville and it's 160 minutes. By that math, you can have 12 characters in 80 minutes...I should be just fine.