May 16, 2011 - Layin' It Down

My goal is to have the entire movie finished by the end of this week, and spend extra hours over the weekend writing out the narration so I can record over the weekend and early on next week.  Then I will need to make a quick 2 minute preview for the movie screening.  With this time crunch, I knew I needed to get a lot done today.  I do know that the group spent the most time in Beijing, and we did the most in Beijing.  The city does take up 40 minutes of the movie, and it will need to be cut down, but the section for Xi'an is only about 7 minutes, and the following cities were experienced for a short time.  I am stressed about this week, but the good kind; where you know your goals, you know how well you work under these circumstances, you know your deadline, and you know it can be done, so you push yourself to work above and beyond to exceed the expectations.  The other movies I have made have set the bar for this movie really high.  Where I am right now is far below where my expectations are, and this week I NEED to get the entire movie done.  Next week is Hell Week for the play, so getting extra hours in at night time is not at all possible, so I will need to work diligently in the afternoons to get this film out.  It is still early in the process, I did log 4:30 hours today, and I am onto Day 6 of the movie at 53:47 for the overall film length.  I look forward to seeing where this goes.  Continue to check in to see where I am in this exciting process of the making of "Proctor In China."