Nightmare Before Deadline.

Okay, so almost a week after deadline we are finitio!!! Its actually hard to write about the last week coz this project has mocked me beyond belief. Is not remotely funny. Will take you back to last friday...



Okay, so Friday, 10.45



At this point it was a grand total of 5 hours and 15 minutes till deadline, and I had actually not had a free evening, lunch time of study period in the last week that hadn't been devoted to the film in some way. As lydia documented, I even had to rush the camera home before I was helping out at yr 13 parents eve, to find out that I had left the tapes at skl and had to get them back to shoot at 6am in the morning, and seriously, that is commitment. After facing the scary year elevens for assembly, had rushed thru psychology work to get 3/4 of an hour of last min editing done, all alone in the cupboard thru breaktime, which was spend re-syncing sound that had messed up after deleting a clip, and putting the last few transitions in.



1.10.

Finally got the last clip in and it all looked...Good. If only i'd known.. Spent the whole of lunch with lyds to make sure everything was ok, before sound clips moved again, so had to go and see english teacher to skip my lesson and burn, but by the end of lunch it all looked pretty finished. Pressed the trusty apple+s and went to see my lil mentee for lunch reg.



2.20.

After a rushed meeting with eng teacher it was back to the stressful media suite, where the lappy was opened to find.. disaster!! The first 30 or so clips I had taken of Shaun and the clock were in the movie bar, and my black and white edit had been erased from the original so i couldn't figure which one we'd used (they were all filmed in EXACTLY the same position), my 2nd sound bar was deleted and had to be re-imported from itunes and our ticking sounds had gone, so had to be re-extracted and sped up. Attempted to open the file i'd saved and came up with exactly the same mess, so just had to re-do it. Went to find Lydia and bumped into Theresa who found Debbie (Thank You!!), who were absolute angels and let me use the main office to edit in. Managed to re-edit and re-sync most of the sound, though unfortunately alot of the ticking noises i had to use were differed clips so the sound wasn't as clean, i couldn'd find the original clip of Shaun, so had to cut my losses and use another, and managed to fit as many transitions in as possible... so after many a tear (stupid weepy girly) i actually had managed to sort out something to submit.

3.30.
After showing my film to anyone who'd watch it in the library, considered it as good as it was gonna get and ready to burn. Ran upstairs to Mr M's office and grabbed a disc, went thru all the process of getting it ready only to find that at 3.45 it wouldn't burn, due to 'unknown errors in format' or some such thing. Went looking for somebody with a rough media knowledge to help me, but no1 knew anything, Mrs B and Mr M were in interviews. Yay!

4.00.
Found Mrs B outside media cupboard and told her what'd happened, though in a very embarrasing sobbing ugly red faced way, in front of many an incredulous media student, ouch. Apparently after all that it could be put onto quicktime and sorted, and i was allowed an extension to sort the last few edits.

4.30.
Finally left skl with annoyingly sympathetic mother after mrs b told me it could be sorted on monday. Thank God.

Thursday, 17th April.
Hadn't been able to find mrs b all week due to my disorganisation and the media interviews. However after speaking to her on weds sorted that me and lydia would have thurs morning to sort film, and put last edits in.

1.10, same day..
Wont burn to disc, and lydia has dissappeared on face of earth. Finally managed to sort it by 1.45, and left thouroughly grumpy. Was mean to poor lyds...(sorry!) who didn't show coz she'd forgot her lunch and didnt tell me... Am a right moody so and so sometimes, but we sorted it. And finally, managed to hand in the hideous coursework of doom, at 2.30pm that day.

I personally blame it all on laptop 13, which Morrison warned us about on the fateful 1st day... If only i had given into the supersitious side and refused it maybe none of this would've happened...

Now have to finish the production log for tomorrow...

Will upload the film tomorrow night when i get it on digistick!!
Ella. xx