Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Post (-Production) Apocalyptic
Hmmn. Well, all the tapes went to Chris for his editing purposes but already we’ve got problems. Not only do we have the dreaded boom-shadow in the Rainy Day Corporation video but due to some kind of tape error, virtually everything from Nigel’s abduction filming has corrupted. All we have left intact of Nigel actually being grabbed and Verity then haring after is the very first take. Nuts.
We’ll have a look at this and I’m sure it can be edited round but this is a real blow as I know Chris worked hard to get all the timings right with the Nigel-grabbing and the subsequent pursuit. Fingers crossed we can still put something together. (The boom-shadow can be digitally removed in the edit but I’m still annoyed with myself not to have seen it whilst filming!)
On the plus side, the first sketches of the Saxophone Deity webcomic are making their way too me. (If anyone is interested, here is my original Saxophone Deity Comic Script, pre-tweaks and polishes.) Although I still have a few tweaks to suggest, the pictures I got are everything I hoped for and knew that Cookie would come up with the goods! 
(Copyright of Richard Cookson/John Hunter 2008)
As I sit down to write Verity’s blogs, Heather has already begun constructing the web-pages, Cookie is scribbling away at the webcomic and Lucy is digitally spraying Sheffield graffiti. It has really hit home exactly how much the filmed aspects of this project really only are one aspect of a bigger picture. I’m now glad that I decided to leave actually fully scripting the blog entries until much later as there is still a big degree of flexibility in where I put things and how to describe or introduce them from Verity’s point of view.
As the Rainy Day site is such a standalone entity with several different aspects to it, I think it best to try and get it finished first as a milestone that’s then out of the way. Fingers crossed.
