Without a doubt in my mind I believe my mac pro is out to kill me. It seems that without a doubt with every project, I have some sort of issue. This time it was the worse it has ever been. On Wednesday I began shooting for the project. The footage came out pretty good, a few issues with a small room and the lens on the Canon XLH1A not really giving me the throw I need. Either way, we used the Nikon as well so the footage works. I come home and start importing, the XLH1A isn't recognized within FCP 7. So I try FCP X, which is the worst ever program that Apple ever created may I add... Anyway, the install corrupts and renders both versions of FCP useless. I try a re-install, nothing works. So I had to format and re-install every program! Thank god I have 5 hard drives on the Pro and always keep my projects and Apps/ OS separate but it took me 2 days. Then yesterday when I thought I was all set, every hard drive was locked! It took me all day to fix and now, with fingers crossed, I am ready for war!
This afternoon we have another production meeting and script read. On Wednesday we will be shooting the bully scene and next weekend the Mike scenes as well as the majority of the basement and interior shots. We will be shooting the security guard scene as well on Sunday of next week. The only real issue that I have had so far has been of course scheduling. Because the majority of my actors are kids, I have to work around the end of school, graduations,football practice and of course the killing scenes need to be done at an early time just to not complicate things with the added issues of concerned residents seeing a psycho with a machete chasing kids around!
As for the specific equipment and software for this project, I will be shooting everything with the before mentioned Canon XLH1A as well as my Nikon D3200. Editing will all be done with Final Cut Pro on My Mac Pro, of course importing of the HDV footage from the Canon will have to go through FCP X (blehh) first and then imported into version 7. All of the effects will be done with AFter Effects. I have the 2 dollies that I made for certain shots that I will be using as well as a couple of tripods. For audio I have Sennheiser wireless body miss that plug directly into the camera bodies. I also have a pretty large green screen( 12 x 16) that I bring out on location and studio lighting for interior shots. Although there are many scenes that call for darker comps, I find that without lighting the shot and then darkening in post, the shot is very grainy. One of the downfalls of the Canon camera.
All in all, this project is a blast. It is time consuming beyond belief, not only with actual tasks but I find my mind constantly working on ways to approach shots or set ups. Hopefully it all works our for us in the end!
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