Getting to the end of pick up shoots has had it’s toll on many of the people involved in shooting Elindil’s Secret. For me personally, trying to maintain edits, improving the story while working at the same time was difficult. It has brought me to a place of feeling overwhelmed. On the final day of shooting we had a hard drive fail. Not that this hindered shooting in anyway, but it did mean there was a little bit of effects work that had to be rendered again. Not the end of the world by any means, but still more time that would need to be added to the Post Production schedule. In organising shots and preparing them for the Visual Effects I started counting how many visual effects are in the final cut of Elindil’s Secret. At this stage the number is over one thousand. Probably seven hundred and fifty more than I had originally thought would be in the movie. When working out the length of blue screen shots that would be in the final David Hindby had calculated about a third of the movie would be blue screen. That figure is still about right, but there are many other shots that require effects in order for them to work. It is a massive task, but that said, a task that will finish the movie and make it impressive, especially considering it’s budget.
So, now it’s time to get into these one thousand shots, as well as starting to prepare folly recording and editing, ADR, music, marketing and all the other fun parts of making a movie.
It is also our hope to have a trailer out soon. Keep a look out for it.