December 22nd, 2007 Riley
Suddenly I see. (Yay, KT Tunstall!)
So, anyway, I am editing Drawing on Walls again. I have decided to finally finish it, after several stops and starts and loads of frustration. There is still no excuse for the delay, though I’m gonna give myself a break, because what I didn’t know if I could do has now been done, and the cast is going to be getting a better final product than they would have gotten six months or a year ago. I know it’s small consolation, but it’s the truth.
And I am prouder of the film now than I was six months or a year ago. It has it’s flaws, but I take some satisfaction in the fact that it doesn’t look like a twenty thousand dollar movie that was shot in five days. (It looks like at least a thirty five thousand dollar movie shot in seven days. Heh.) But it definitely doesn’t look bad.
And it hurt to not get into any film festivals with it, but it’s an interesting thing, because every time I have watched it in the past two weeks (many times by the way), I cannot understand how we failed to make a film festival. I’ve attended plenty of film festivals in my time, and I have seen many films a lot worse than Drawing on Walls.
Their loss.
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December 21st, 2007 Riley
movie = finished
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December 3rd, 2007 Riley
So, I owe my cast and crew their copies of the movie we filmed last summer. That’s right… a year and a half ago and they are just getting their copies. I suck. And Merry Christmas.
Anyway, on a happier note, I realized something as I have been watching it back. It’s really good. It’s still really good. Film festivals have denied us. Due to issues that are now beyond my control, but if I had known better I could have stopped before they started, there isn’t much else I can do with the film. I can, however, continue to admire it, be proud of it, and admit that I learned a lot from filming it. I do. I am. And I did.
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November 12th, 2007 Riley
Filming wrapped on my movie Drawing on Walls (…and other socially dictated signs of deviant behavior) well over a year ago. I have had the scenes all captured onto this very computer for the vast majority of that time. I still have it here. Mostly this delay has been due to frustration and set-backs, but there is no excuse. Must finish film, as far as finishing goes at least. Since there isn’t much I’m going to be able to do with it, there’s not much finishing that I plan to do. But I do need to make copies and send them out to the actors who worked so hard. If you are one of them, I sincerely apologize.
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