{"id":436,"date":"2020-02-05T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=436"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:31:59","slug":"domestique-nearing-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/02\/05\/domestique-nearing-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestique Nearing&#8230; Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/Domo\/\">Domestique<\/a> short has finally reached the stage where the latest cut I got from the editor left me with the feeling I hadn&#8217;t wasted $5K.\u00a0 Almost to the point I wouldn&#8217;t be embarrassed to actually put it to its original intended use: to interest actual retired professional domestiques to fund the project.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I&#8217;m not totally happy with it.\u00a0 But my editor &#8211; who has been working on it for around 5 months now &#8211; is ready to move on.\u00a0 I have to decide if I want to start over and hope I can produce something better (all while learning <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/category\/blender\/\">Blender<\/a> and hopefully making a <a href=\"\/Horror\/\">horror<\/a> short) or run the risk that my proof-of-concept has enough deficiencies that it will turn off potential investors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trapped in analysis paralysis at the moment.\u00a0 I got a nice shiny new mobile workstation specifically for editing (and now animation), which should have more than enough horsepower to get the job done in a timely manner, but beyond the PITA that is greenscreen (though I&#8217;ve learned better ways to remove the green without causing artifacts, when the background image requires the chromakey-ed foreground to move in relation things get complicated quickly), there&#8217;s a substantial dearth of the stock footage I feel I need to sell the story I initially wrote.<\/p>\n<p>What to do, what to do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Domestique short has finally reached the stage where the latest cut I got from the editor left me with the feeling I hadn&#8217;t wasted $5K.\u00a0 Almost to the point I wouldn&#8217;t be embarrassed to actually put it to its original intended use: to interest actual retired professional domestiques to fund the project. That being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/02\/05\/domestique-nearing-something\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Domestique Nearing&#8230; Something&#8221;<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}