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August 05, 2006
Absence Makes The Heart
Since I last wrote, I've walked through a graveyard at sunrise, added credits sequences to two films, been drained of a pint of blood, stayed up for thirty six hours and written far too little. In fact, I've deleted three half-finished entries here - one of which was intended for the Avant-Garde blog-a-thon, which came and went and took with it my plans of contributing a semi-avant-garde piece film of my own (it fell by the wayside as time slipped ever on by, but I'm committed to having it finished next week). You can find a list of and links to all the participants here, along with Girish's own piece on the films of Joseph Cornell. Get ready for some good reading.
Yen is shooting a short film this weekend, to flex his muscles for his feature outing in a month and a half; we're going to lens it with an eye towards a 35mm transfer, which we've never bothererd to do before. I dropped by MPS this afternoon and picked up the equipment, which James and I then co-opted in order to run out and grab a few last minute insert shots for GDMF (which is 165 hours away from its first screening). While we were shooting them, we realized they might make a half-decent, suggestive-but-not-nondisclosive teaser for the film. So we gave it a shot:
For iPod
We've been working on the film all week - or, at least, we have on the days when James hasn't been jetting across the country, catching as many Tom Waits concerts as he can. We put the finishing touches to the color correction tonight, and did as much as we could with the sound mix (it's nice to have a computer that's fast enough to run Soundtrack Pro, but it'd be even nicer if I knew how to use it). I think it's actually done, now. The running time is twenty nine minutes and fifty nine seconds, on the dot. I'll have more to write about it - and other things - soon.
Posted by David Lowery at August 5, 2006 03:51 AM
Comments
That's a big beautiful trailer --- 4.7 megs or so for 45 seconds. Roughly 5 megs/minute. What do you think people are generally comfortable downloading? I would like to put larger stuff on my site, but would someone really sit and wait for a 75 meg download of a 15 minute film? I guess it depends on the film.
Posted by: Evan Mather at August 5, 2006 08:48 AM
Ah, the etiquette of Quicktime encoding! Generally, I think anything 5 MB or under is fair game, regardless of how long the clip is. Back when I had dial-up, that was around the size that I could download within a reasonable amount of time (and of course, on DSL, it's pretty much instantaeous).
For longer films, I personally always prefer high quality - I'd be happy to download a 75 MB version of a film if it meant better sounud and picture quality. Of course, most people don't have that sort of pateience. I think host multiple versions is ultimately the best option.
Posted by: Ghostboy at August 7, 2006 03:39 AM
Tom Waits is playing concerts!!!??? must...find...info...
Posted by: Sujewa at August 7, 2006 01:38 PM
I think you might be too late, Mr. Sujewa -- I tried to get tickets to the Chicago show (which is this Friday), and it sold out in less than three minutes. We'll both have to live vicariously through James for the time being. He's made it to two shows so far.
Posted by: Ghostboy at August 7, 2006 01:56 PM
Great teaser! Has a magnificent glow about it.
Posted by: Regularkarate at August 8, 2006 12:34 PM