Gameshelf blargh

Just finished importing all the footage from the shoot. It went OK - there are various things that are different from the host segments we shot in January and which I don't like as much. I think we accidentally got a lot right the first time. All the host one-shots are a little too tight, and my hair looks weird. My face looks fine, though; I got classicaljunkie's permission to break into her house and borrow some cover-up, but I think that NTSC helps more. The nicks look huge in the mirror, but in practice they're smaller than TV scan lines are tall. I'll worry more about blemishes when we move to HD. (Yeah, right.)

I'm sure I'll grind a lot down in editing - there's a lot of stuff to squeeze into this episode - so I don't think anyone will have time to themselves focus on all the stuff I didn't like, and anyway there'll be other stuff to look at. It's going to be a special effects extravaganza and will spend a goodly long time in post-production. I'm putting it away for now and will pick it up again some early morning when I feel like pouring an entire day into it. The completed show will appear sometime in May. This keeps us more or less to the bimonthly schedule I declared in January, so that's very nice.

Already starting to assemble the next show after, but I don't wanna put any actual work-type work into it until this one's in the can.

moo vee

Also, just to put it out there: I think it'd put hair on my brain to go to some of IFF, which starts tomorrow. It's high time I go watch some strange movies and get back into acknowledging the arts in Boston other than the nosepickery I do myself.

But nobody knows where Robolizard was

This afternoon I went to dougo's to watch Henry Fool, immediately after which we set off to the Somerville Theater to watch its sequel, Fay Grim, which headlined this weekend's Boston Independent Film Festival. (cthulhia, who is volunteering at the IIF, joined us for the latter.)

It was a surreal experience. First of all, the movies were filmed 10 years apart from each other, so watching them with a real-time separation of about an hour was trippy. Secondly, I cannot recall ever seeing two movies that shared the same central characters and yet were so utterly different from one another, less in tone than in genre, almost.

All that said, I enjoyed both films a great deal! The main draw for me was their having James "urbaniak" Urbaniak in a starring role; I've been reading his LJ long enough to have been curious about both movies. I'm happy to say that I can generally recommend them.

Mr. U took the stage after the film to answer questions. Towards the end he attempted to determine if one of his LJ's regular commenters was in the crowd, and got an uncertain response. Doug and I are mostly lurkers so we just slunk away and ate burritos.