Drifting by David Lowery: Finished Again

March 11, 2009

Finished Again

I just returned from being a guest speaking engagement at Kat's film class at UT. I wish I could be a professor.

I'm still not sleeping. Among the causes: those little flaws I'd detected in the film which, in spite of the sage reminders from friends and colleagues that such minute imperfections would always be there for me to find, plagued my mind to no end, growing larger and more officious the more I tried to let them go. I knew they would continue to taunt me; I would watch the film and wait for them, cringing and wincing. Those few shorts frames would infect all the others and make me resent the movie. They would force me to make excuses for its deficiencies, and I swore this would be a film I would make no excuses for. I felt like I was being crushed. I went for a run that night, hoping a car would lose control and plow into me and shatter this growing weight on my mind along with every bone in my body. But the evening traffic was particularly orderly that evening. I returned with a clearer head, and showered, and sat back down in the edit bay for another all-night session of fixing problems and double-checking them and fixing them some more. I didn't just address those issues I'd initially noticed; I went through the movie with a fine-toothed comb, looking for anything that might have ever annoyed me in any capacity. I saw a reflection in a window that annoyed me and I erased it. I saw cars driving by in the background of shots and rotoscoped them out:

I exported the project, made a DVD, played it on the TV, noticed some thunder effects that deserved a bit more work, fixed them, exported another version, took the thing back to the post house and had another HD master made. It's now been turned in to the festival, and I think I can officially look forward to Sunday now. The bill can wait until after.

Posted by David Lowery at March 11, 2009 8:09 PM

Comments

Oh man. Looks good. I have to assume you're blogging out of time sequence and didn't make yet a THIRD master of the film. Right? RIGHT????

Posted by: Clay Liford at March 11, 2009 10:54 PM

Hi David, I read the comment you made on someones' blog about loving carott juice. I have come up w/the most delicious combination with the carott juice. Ok, common sense dictates that there is no waste in a big ol banana...so, in the juicer goes the bananna first.Bigger the better...
then after cutting the bottom of the carott off ( a little bitter for me) I put in right many carotts, because this is so delish you want a huge glass..to this combo, I add 4 or 5 blue packets of sweetner (asparteme, Equate Walmart cheap brand is what we use) whisk this up together,and you will find yourself savoring each drop you take, I use a straw to make it last longer! Even my grandson, (Camden, see my daughter, "Mizzolly" on Myspace, he is her son, and she just pulled a 4 yr enlistment w/the Marine Corps) anyway, he loves it so much I have recently bought 4 Juiceman Juicers!! Molly is such a clean "One" that she accidentaly warped my Juiceman Juicer plastic mold part, by scalding it in boiling water, warping the pieces! I upsized and bought an expensive Jack Lalane, and Rolfe took it right back the next day! You have to actually use a wrench/other complicated tools to
clean this monster...you can get inexpensive Juiceman Juicer, Jr.s on Amazon, or Ebay and I might add, thrift stores! I could not hardly wait for my new Juicer to get here...missed my carott/bananna smoothie bookoos. Keep on juicing, david, and God bless you!
Psalm 103 "Bless the Lord, o my soul who satisfieth my mouth with good things so my youth is renewed like the eagles!" fellow carott juice lover, sandra

Posted by: sandra Hall Phillips at March 12, 2009 1:36 PM