Final Word

As a final word on this blog, i just want to recognise the whole team;

Jonathan Pryce [Director]
Jenny Morgan [3d Artist]
Giles Pease [Technician]
Dan Hayes [Lead Animator]
Ben Griffin [Concept Artist]
(...not to forget Yemi Adelekan, Rebecca Morgan, and Alistair Primrose)

for their outstanding commitment and dedication to the film. As a team we worked well, effectively and professionally together, and not forgetting the fun we managed have along the way. This film for me has been and character building experience to say the least, and not only have i enjoyed making the film but the company i've shared whilst doing so. Its been fun and clearly rewarding and we should all be really proud.

Well done guys once again and all the best.

Rob
[Producer]

Final Output

The film has finally been completed and all that is left to do is output the movie with sound from premiere. I did this for hand in today and found that an uncompressed Quicktime movie with stereo sound was 6.33GB!!

So i decided to compress with the soreson3 compressor available and stuck with stereo sound (as i believe it plays a massive part int he movies feel, and therefore must remain as higher quality as possible) and the file size dropped to 455MB, perfect for hand in.

The Edit

The edit has been progressing since January, and finalized about a month ago. All i had to do this evening was take the final renders of the film and place them over the top of the playblasts we had done prior to rendering in the edit and ensure they we're all the same as the previous edit; this was to avoid any discrepancies with the sound. It went pretty well other then a few issues with a couple of render notes we had taken when rendering out our playblasts were not quite accurate. but a bit of clipping and we were there.

Organizing and creating the credits, with Alistairs music also

A slightly frustrating task I have to say, since everyone wants to be credited for what they have done. Which is fair enough, however, as advised by the tutors not a good idea regarding that we want our viewers to leave the film feeling excited and remember it for its good points; as apposed to the long drawn out affair of some boring rolling credits. Therefore, after looking at the word of Saul Bass and some good advice from our tutor Jared Taylor, we decided to shorten the Credits to specifics as much we could and come up with some designs for them.

Reciept of Alistairs adjustments, and final output

Today we received the final draft of Alistair's score, and it was fine. we still had to adjust a few levels in favor of Beci's sound effects, but other then that it fit perfectly on top of the film. The music certainly does create a exciting mood about the film and aids the fast paced tempo we were aiming to achieve in this film. Nicely done Alistair, really nice work.

Received sounds from Becky and from Alistair

Today we received all the music back from both Beci and Alistair and placed it on top of the final edit with all the renders already inserted ( a quick and easy job that was finished yesterday morning). Although both sounded fantastic on their own, I suspected that they wouldn’t sound as brilliant together and some levels would have to played with. Therefore, Jenny, Jono and myself, once again sat down and played it over and over and over again until our heads went numb trying to find the right levels for both tracks at their significant parts of the film. This was a long process, and one part of this film where opinions seemed to be more varied then ever. But non the less, we nailed it and in the end were all happy with the final out put of sound.

However, one more thing needed to be sorted by Alistair, as once again he hadn’t quite timed one section correctly. Therefore a quick phone call got him back on it and we hope to receive the file tomorrow. Which as before the levels (which we now know where the changes need to be made) need to be adjusted and a final out put can be assembled.

Organizing Renders

Whilst the files were being rendered, I used the time I needed to organize the renders that had been completed into scenes and shots, to make the transfer to the edit smoother and quicker. I found that by doing this doing this the task of dropping them into premiere was such an easy task and I am very glad I took that small amount of time to organize myself as a result.