Impulse

I hereby declare pic­ture for my first doc­u­men­tary film, LOCKED!  Sure, it took 2 years, 1 month, and 28 days to com­plete the story edit, but hey, who’s count­ing, right?  It got done and that’s all that mat­ters.  Now on to the tech­ni­cal dot­ting of the i’s and cross­ing the t’s: mas­ter­ing the audio tracks, com­plet­ing the titles and bottom-thirds (“bot­tom thirds” are the text & graph­ics that pop up at the bot­tom of your screen, used ridicu­lously often in news pro­grams), color bal­anc­ing and visual pol­ish, and music. 

For the end cred­its, I’m plan­ning on using some music writ­ten by my friend John Pilafidis, to which this film and the race in the film, are ded­i­cated.  The song’s intro is a lit­tle long, but I’ve got John’s mas­ter files.  Always wanted to learn how to edit music…

I want to thank all of my friends who gave me feed­back through the edit­ing process.  Your feed­back made this a much, much bet­ter film.  Thanks Amanda, Karen, Becky, Linda, Mike, Will, Susan, Helen, Bernie, Laurie, Tom, Marisa, Mark, and Harvey. 

Related posts:

1. RAAM: a lit­tle dis­tance is good
2. RAAM movie: the final sprint
3. RAAM: edit­ing the hard­est race in the world
4. RAAM: movie edit­ing continues
5. RAAM doc­u­men­tary nearly finished