A Better Fate Postproduction Update

Joe has finished processing all of the sound recorder data.  Vitas is currently 1) syncing this clean sound into the video and 2) panning and scanning a shot that contains the shadow of the boom mike. 

Postproduction: Sound

We're nearly finished with the sound cleanup due to the hard work of Joe.  Vitas is currently syncing the sound.  Hence, we'd like to have a final cut of "A Better Fate" done in the next several weeks.  We'll send DVDs out to the cast at that time.

In other news, I'm developing the backstory and characters for a feature length screenplay tentatively called CSR. In CSR, I throw my main character, Alex McKenna, a recent college graduate who's just been dumped by his girlfriend (for another woman, nonetheless) and saddled with a $50,000 student loan bill, into the seventh circle of Hell: a Call Center in New Jersey.  We then watch Alex writhe in misery as he deals with disgruntled (and sometimes violent) customers, surly, weed-adled co-workers, and even a Belorussian stripper with a heart of gold. Will Alex claw his way out of this living hell to persue his dream of revolutionizing String Theory or will he succumb to the lure of cheap weed, 40 ounces of Steel Reserve, and twenty dollar handjobs at the local strip club: The G-Spot? 

"The Knife Edge" Finished

I've finished the screenplay for "The Knife Edge" this week at 16.5 pages.  The last five pages are set on "The Knife Edge" on Mt Khitadin in Baxter State Park:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Katahdin#Knife_Edge

I have this image in my mind of a woman, alone at dawn, traversing the knife edge, with the first rays of the sun diffracting off the edge of the ridge and flaring the camera lens.  Incidentally, this phenomena is know as "The Knife Edge Effect", which can be described mathematically by the geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD).  Yet all mathematics fail to describe this moment.  We must appeal to the passions as well as the intellect.  The woman, defying death, defying gravity, defying the diffracted light of the sun, embodies Camus' solution to the problem of the absurd: Revolt. 

The Knife Edge

I am currently writing a screenplay for the short film "The Knife Edge".  The film poses the question: "What is the final thought that crosses a woman's mind as she commits suicide?".  I also attempt to answer this question.  I've completed 90% of the 18-page script and we'll develop a budget and casting in the next several days. 

Synopsis

Tagline: Nothing can prepare you for this interview.

Synopsis: It's September 20008, the peak of the financial crisis, and ZettaQuest (ZQT on the NASDAQ) is on the brink. Meet Vincent Hemming, a young quantitative analysis at ZQT. He has a degree from MIT, a six-figure job in finance, a kick-ass condo in Boston's Back Bay and a beautiful fiancee, Alisa.   He’s living the dream. But his world is about to fall apart in the next 24 hours after a most unusual interview. 

"So...where do you see yourself in five years?"

Postproduction Update

A brief update regarding the postproduction of "A Better Fate".  

Vitas, Joe, and I are finishing up the sound on "A Better Fate".  We have cleaned up the majority of the dialog recorded on the external recorder and are syncing the sound with the video.  We plan on finishing these tasks by the end of the week.  We've also purchased several electronica tracks from premiumbeat.com to serve as the score.  We still need to record some aditional foley to finish the soundmix.

Here's a draft of the poster for "A Better Fate"