I haven't slept a wink

Couldn't sleep. Just the thought of those shots not working kept me up. I finally gave up trying to fall asleep, got up and have been tweaking for the last two hours. Got it working pretty good. I have a rough cut of Scenes 1 through 4. Scene 5 (running scene) will be nearly impossible to get anything close to what I want until I have music to go with it. I've started to think about maybe some old negro spirituals or gospels or something. I don't know. Lots of ways to go.

Scenes 1-4 (without the rest of Scene 1 which we have to shoot soon) total 24 minutes and 58 seconds. That may or may not go down depending on what kind of cuts I make to what I've got now. Most of what I'd likely want to tweak is untweakable because of the lack of coverage, which is a result of a lack of time, which is a result of a lack of money, which is the result of a lack of an executive producer, which may be a result of the poor economy. This being my first film is also a definite factor. Minor tweaking, cutting a few frames here, extending a few there, etc. will of course happen. What all this means, is when I finish with the intro, it will be about 27 minutes long from the first image until Nick Adams leaves Henry's to try and save Ole. The running scene will be anywhere from 70 seconds to 5 minutes, depending on the music, how the clips come together, etc. There are 3 more major scenes, each will be about 90 seconds long, left. There's also the cab scene, which I can make short or longer. All in all, the film will easily be pushing 35 minutes, maybe closer to 40ish. Not too shabby.

I need some fucking sleep.