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January 6, 2011

Finished!

In the past week, all that was foretold came to pass; we mastered the film and QCd it; as per my habit, I made some last minute tweaks to the edit; we layed it out to HDCam twice over and took one of those tapes and shipped it off to the film traffic hub in Park City. I look forward to seeing it again in two weeks.

We've also made a Facebook page for the film, to which we've uploaded a small selection of behind-the-scenes photos. All of these are very nice, but they hammer home the fact that the film does, indeed, take place in a single room - which isn't a problem whatsoever when you're watching the film itself, but when you're trying to drum up advance word of mouth about it and pretending that a 15-minute short isn't just a drop in the bucket at a place like Sundance, the monotony of seeing the same cast and crew occupying the same small space in picture after picture might send you scrambling for a snapshot of, say, the relative thrills of a tape control room in which the final master copy was made.

In seriousness, though - I fully believe that, in spite of its physical constraints, regardless of its running time, the film lives up to its promises of epicness. That room plays mighty big on the big screen.

Posted by David Lowery at January 6, 2011 12:54 AM