Worky work, busy bee

What a strange thing life is. Sometimes, no matter how things seem to change, they're really the same. Tonight, Sadat had to be rescued from the Raven and while I was waiting for him to finish closing up, I played the new Far single for him on the computer there. As I was sitting there, watching him clean up some stuff it hit me: 10 years ago, possibly to the day, who knows, we were doing the same exact thing. I would always hang out and wait for him to get off of work. Usually it was at Spencer's Gifts. And we would listen to new music, and 10 years ago, the last Far album came out (1998 - Water and Solutions) and now there's a new single (after the band has been broken up for like 9 years). Sadat's still working somewhere and I'm still in town to be around waiting for him to get off of work. Strange times. But it'll be coming to a close soon. Austin is calling and it's time to answer and move on.

Afterwards we went to Le Club Roche and played some pool and Todd was there so we discussed some things. I've been emailing Cliff and Jim Frank back and forth about some ideas for the introduction scene. After swapping emails, I cut up the scene a little more on Saturday and trimmed a minute from it without causing too much jarring disorientation. Now I have to decide how I want to set it all up, if I go with my original idea of 3 street corner shots of random traffic before we get an external shot of the flower shop, or if I want to introduce Max and Al earlier and if so, to what extent. Still trying to figure this out. Hmm.

After I got home I started editing again. I've been giving it some time to settle in my head after watching Scene 4 clips the other day and I was able to figure out right away which ones I wanted to use, so for the most part (beyond sound editing, and the possible trimming of a few frames here and there) this might be what goes into the final cut. I'm not planning on uploading every scene as I finish it but I want to show a little of the progress.

What I ended up doing, is breaking the scene into beats. There are certain mood shifts and volleys of dialogue and attitude back and forth and I tried to time each cut so that each beat and cut is one of those mood shifts. When I did that, everything seemed to fall into place, as far as where the cut should go. Now, when other eyes see it, will they see the same? I don't know, but I have a cut that I'm pleased with right now and we'll see how I feel tomorrow and next week and tweak from there.

I've got some ideas for a really short film, like 7 minutes long and mostly dialogue that I can only do if I can find the right actors for the 2 parts. I've already got someone in mind who would be absolutely perfect for one of the roles, but don't know anyone who would fit this second part. Then there's the matter of convincing the first person to do it. Writing it should be fun, adapting and modernizing an 18th century play. And there I've given away one too many hints.