24k Film In-The-Making

I’m in the editing room right now with Kat and Jamo, two of the interns who helped me with the last shoot. I’ve requested them to watch the rough cut of 24k. I really need comments from people who haven’t seen the film to see how I can improve it.

The film so far runs 107 minutes. (Haha. And to think I was afraid of running undertime.) I have to find ways to cut it down.

Jamo, by the way, took some great scene and behind-the-scene photos during our last shoot. I’ll post them here when I find time.

I finally have confirmation from all my treasure hunters regarding our shooting sked in May. Thank goodness. I don’t have to send someone plummeting down a cliff in the story prematurely.

I’m therefore back in the batcave, a.k.a. editing room. I’ve been working on the scene of the ritual and I’m so fascinated with the visuals that I want to put a lot of it in the movie. Now I have it running at 9 minutes, and it’s just too long. I need to bring it further down to maybe 4 minutes, but the audio is giving me a huge challenge because it goes from instrumental, to prayer, to instrumental, to singing, to instrumental. If I cut it to 4 minutes, I might have to do away with the live audio completely and use scoring, and I think it’s a shame to do that. So I’ve been stuck on this one sequence since yesterday. If I don’t have a solution by the end of this day I’ll have to move on and get back to it later.