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June 29, 2007

Necessity Is The Mother Of Final Cuts

By all accounts, the Ciao screening in Dallas went exceedingly well the other night. I countered by giving a living room screening to some of the Los Angeles cast constituents this afternoon. It was the first time I really watched the mixed and scored edit all the way through in one sitting, and even though we talked through the whole thing, bringing up anecdotes and practical jokes from the set, it managed to pull me in. It's such a small, quiet, subtle film, and although I know pretty much every frame by heart at this point, the punch it eventually packs still manages to surprise me.

Watching it this evening also made clear to me what areas need a tiny bit of last minute work. I can never stress enough how important it is to sit on a project for a while before finalizing it - and yet I always manage to convince myself that it isn't true. "Hell yeah it's locked!" I'll tell people time and time again, months before making drastic changes to whatever project I'm working on at the time.

And now I've got a confession to make. My real point in posting all this is that I really hate writing grant applications. I've got one due on Monday and I'm doing anything and everything to avoid finishing it. The fate of a feature length documentary may hang in the balance, and yet I can't bring myself to describe it in 200 words or less! Alas.

Posted by David Lowery at June 29, 2007 12:01 AM

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Posted by: frank Mosley at June 29, 2007 01:59 AM