since last time i wrote i have been working away with the afghan edit and we now have a first rough cut which is almost in shape. after looking it through, leon, david and i had a quick brainstorm meeting and we came up with some good ideas and themes that we are going to try and weave in. i have been struggling with the edit from time to time as there is tons of material that it is all very good, but it has been a little difficult to get it to hold together and not feel scattered. the brainstorming we did was helpful since it felt like we had a few epiphanies on how to solve the structure and storyline.
david is going to try and write all our thought and ideas that we discussed down on paper tonight and i’ll meet him in shoreditch tomorrow for a quick meeting to go through it once more, but it feels like we can take it to the next level and really start cutting it into shape. we have decided to have quite a few graphic sequences in the film, (mainly because we don’t have any footage of either the prison nor the attack and have to solve this somehow) but have decided to work the graphics to put a unique look and feel to the entire film and i think it’s going to look pretty cool. david was experimenting in after effects today trying to come up with some styles that could work, and salvador (our 2d animator and after effects guru) will probably come in next week to start working on some things.
next week we’ll start digging into the project again and hopefully we will have a new rough cut before too long. i’ll keep you updated x