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Microcosm Dailies: Day 4
By Erik | June 6, 2008
It’s all in the can now. We’ve completed the truly fun, yet truly trying, part of filmmaking: production. While pre-production is all work, no play and the up coming post production is also a bit more heavy on the work than the fun, production is really where the good times are had. We had anywhere between ten to twenty people on set any day of production and they are not only talented and hard working, they are insanely fun to be around. Alas, a chapter closes in our lives as many of us go our separate ways and what not. We’ll keep in touch, to be certain, but we won’t be connected at the hip for days in a row any time soon, if ever again.
But unlike many gatherings of friends, this one has a long lasting by-product. Microcosm is a digital film, copies can be made over and over and over again without any loss in quality. And so our good times have a permanent record that most groups don’t ever get to taste. And for that, I’m really greatful.
But enough of my existential non-sense.
Post is now staring us dead in the face. I’m taking a day off from the film to mostly relax with my family. But tomorrow I begin, in earnest, capturing the footage and getting it ready to be picture edited. The editing duties are still very much up in the air right now, but should solidify soon. I’ve already put myself in the position of editing assistant by doing the digitalization of the footage. A job very much for a low man on the totem pole at a production house.
But per usual, the dailies are a little behind where we are in production. I give you day 4, shot on location at Polito’s in Stevens Point. I know, all of our exteriors were shot in downtown Wausau, why shoot in a downtown Point eatery? They let us. Simple as that. We approached two downtown businesses in Wausau to shoot and they both turned us down after some bureaucracy. I would have loved to have featured a Wausau business, after all this is very much a Wausau film. But logistics will always trump art, painful as it may sound.
This footage will need some of the most work done to it in post, shooting in front of windows always does.
Enjoy Day 4!
YouTube - http://youtube.com/watch?v=yw0Pcz2CrzE
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