Tag: post production

Making Meme Part 19: Remixing the Film

Following the realization that the film just wasn’t working as well as it could when presented as a linear narrative Carolyn and I set forward a plan to rethink the narrative. The story wouldn’t change, but the way it was presented would. This ultimately brought the film closer to the original vision, which I had strayed from over the course of pre-production and production of the film. I wrote every scene on a notecard and identified (and color coded) the plots and subplots they were a part of. This was taking a common screenwriting technique for visualizing story and just […]

Making Meme Part 18: Starting Post Production

As stated in the last update we’d been working on post production of the film since the first weekend of shooting. One of the benefits of shooting over eleven months was that we could work on the edit of the film between shoot days. By the time we reached the end of shooting we had a rough cut of the film. We were also able to do this partly because I was editing the film myself. Our process after a shoot day was that I would ensure we had a back up of the footage. Then, I would review all […]