Happy Holidays everyone!0

Since I’m leaving for the countryside for over a week later today I thought I’d write a little something! First of all, I wanted to wish you all a very merry christmas and/or happy holidays! I seriously cannot believe how fast this year has passed!

I’ll probably write something more just before the new year, so I’ll have a more thorough conclusion and a few more thoughts on the year as a whole in that article.

As you might have read yesterday, I finished editing “Zombie Exterminator”! This of course, doesn’t mean the film is finished – not even close to it – but it’s a good step in the right direction. It’s been a very tough project so far, as it has constantly been interferring with my studies at school and been bombarded with problems left and right. But, it all turned out fine in the end, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to finally just sit down with a final cut and start adding effects, sound and music. I’ve recently heard from our teacher that we will at most have approximately one week after the holidays to finish our film, but that seems a bit far-fetched, seeing as our group is the only one with an edited film (the other groups havn’t even finished filming it yet). So I guess I’m going to have to work quite hard the upcoming week, but still, it’s way better than homework! Hopefully I’ll be able to finish the effects, grading and other visual elements the upcoming week, giving me two more weeks to generally tweak it and add sound and music. This doesn’t really change my plans of releasing the film here on the website before February, as I will probably want to fix a few things after the premiere (since it’ll probably not be completely finished in terms of thought-through grading and more).

I’ll bring my family’s digital camera to the countryside with me, so I’m going to try and take some photos. Not sure if I’ll be able to upload them before I get back though…you never know with WiFi-availability. Anyway, you could check the Flickr page once in a while to see if any new photos pop up during the week. Keep your fingers crossed!

As I’ve been watching both “Eastern Promises” and “American Gangster” – both excellent crime movies – the last week I got some inspiration to some film projects. I’m thinking it’d be nice to do something a bit more down-to-earth and realistic than what I’ve done before. Perhaps some kind of criminal/detective story, sort of a cat-and-mouse kind of thing. Never really tried to do a film with paralell stories, should be interesting to give it a shot!

So once again, Merry Christmas! As I said earlier, this won’t be the last post for the year, I will probably write a summary of the entire year just before or on New Year’s Eve. Should be fun!

Take care everyone!!