Returning from a weeklong time-lapse shoot
in Edinburgh to find the film shipment had arrived. Excellent.
I was wondering how that might turn out.
Morco didn’t have as much stock as they thought they would. I thought I might
have to scrounge the whole of the UK to come up with 150 rolls, but as it
happens, Silverprint in London (my new best friends) had a ridiculous amount of
Kodak stock to sell. I grabbed 100 rolls of Portra 400 and 50 rolls of Portra
160. (The unpredictable nature of the weather here had made me reconsider the
idea of shooting all 400. There is a chance of being in full, raging sun with a
couple of our locations, so I opted to be safe and cover myself with a bit of
160.) As long as I stick to a single stock per location, there shouldn’t be a
problem.
Jack Quick from LomoLab, UK, has been most
helpful in determining the post options that are best for the project. It turns
out that their semi-automated process will produce a bigger, beefier file size
and is also a bit less expensive. We’ll be getting DVD’s of the quicktime
movies to edit with. I’m hoping to juice up my Macbook Pro before then, so I
can handle the off-line edit myself. We may move the on-line edit to a post
house in Glasgow for finishing and tweaks.
Kyle is currently working on the costume
he’ll use for the film and getting the song ready. The slowed down broken up
version will be on CD and played from a bog-standard portable CD player. Each
take will be slated with the track number and take. Once in the edit, the
tracks will be cut together with the slowed down version of the song, then the
whole thing will be “brought up to speed” and further tweaked. (This is how it
works in the perfect little fantasy world inside my brain, anyway…)
I’m working on trimming down the number of
locations, as well as scheduling. We’ll shoot 2-3 locations per day (weather
permitting), starting each day on the east side of the island and moving to the
west side after lunch, to maximize our daylight.
We’re still considering several locations. The
lighthouse is definitely going to be a prime location, as well as the St.
Blanes Chapel ruin. There are a couple of locations above Scalpsie Bay that
will be amazing as well.
We’ll be asking a favour of a boat owning
friend of ours to shuttle us to the remote lighthouse location. That’ll save an
hour-long cliffside hike. (Although, I’ve been considering certain points along
the ciff-hike for locations, so maybe the boat takes us to the Lighthouse and we
“shoot” our way back along the cliff…)
This is going to be exciting…
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