{"id":420,"date":"2019-10-13T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=420"},"modified":"2019-10-13T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T11:40:34","slug":"much-ado-about-nothing-or-so-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/10\/13\/much-ado-about-nothing-or-so-it-seems\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Ado About Nothing, Or So It Seems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two weeks ago I was notified that Treasure Hunt<\/a> was accepted into a festival<\/a>.\u00a0 In those two weeks, the festival has neither returned my emails or made any updates to their website.\u00a0 As such, I have to assume it was either a scam to make money off credulous indie filmmakers or it’s being operated by total incompetents (really, is there a way to tell the difference?).\u00a0 I may be surprised and they’ll suddenly emerge from the darkness, but I can’t see there being any value in getting excited even if that happens.\u00a0 If the festival is so small that it can’t be competently managed, is it even worth telling anyone about?<\/p>\n

On a only tangentially related matter, the festival notification did light a small fire under my butt to experiment with the day-for-night on the flick.\u00a0 Since I know, biologically, most people see in black and white at night (rods vs cones<\/a>, doanchano), I figured I’d try that and see what happened.\u00a0 Well, it seems, actually getting my editor to make the footage black and white is a PITA.\u00a0 However, I could reduce the saturation level<\/a> to 1 (not zero, though) easily.\u00a0 Then, after adjusting the brightness, I felt I was able to quickly achieve a look I could be happy with.\u00a0 Those damn brilliant blue skies are gone and I feel it’s reasonable to think the scene is being illuminated by a bright full moon.<\/p>\n

With that settled, now I have to learn how to adjust the audio levels.\u00a0 There should be an equalizer plugin that I can use to ‘roll off’ the sounds that are above and below normal speech.\u00a0 Then there should be a way to adjust the various audio (dialog, music and background) so they all fall in the ‘sweet spot’ where it’s easy to hear without being too loud or distorted.\u00a0 Supposedly, there’s a way to do this in a semi-automatic way, so I don’t have to spend minutes on each sound clip (there are probably over a thousand), but that’ll require research and experimentation.<\/p>\n

So, with that momentum, I aim to rework the feature as well as the trailer.\u00a0 Then I’ll revisit the whole disk authoring debacle.\u00a0 I think I’ll feel more motivated at that point, since I believe I’ll have a reason to think it’ll be feasible to try and find actual paying customers.\u00a0 Timing, though, is probably early next year.\u00a0 The day-for-night went quickly, but I expect the audio to take a lot longer (most of the movie isn’t day-for-night).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly two weeks ago I was notified that Treasure Hunt was accepted into a festival.\u00a0 In those two weeks, the festival has neither returned my emails or made any updates to their website.\u00a0 As such, I have to assume it was either a scam to make money off credulous indie filmmakers or it’s being operated … Continue reading “Much Ado About Nothing, Or So It Seems”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treasure-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}