I created a new version of "The Barrier" this week and posted it to YouTube. I made
several changes to the first two scenes. Next week I plan to move on to a new
project, or do some of the house work I've neglected.
Over the last week, I finished the first scene of "The Barrier" that I've worked
on over the last month. Then I did a new version of the second scene of the
movie. Finally I combined them with the rest of the movie to create a new
version (version 0.6) of "The Barrier".
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Scene 1
I only made a few minor changes to the previous version of
scene 1. I added some more cuts after the car passes the truck to give a more
frenzied impression of what happens. Since I planned to use this version to
replace part of the previous version of "The
Barrier", I used the same artificial voice from before, rather than my
own voice. That voice is a little slower than mine, so I had to extend the
background shot a bit.
I am sure that there is a lot more that I can do with this
scene to make it better. However, I decided to call it done for now. I plan to
redo the entire movie with real actors for the voices, and will have another
chance to revisit the scene then. It is easier to see opportunities for
improvement when you've had time to create some distance.
Scene 2
In the records I keep for the movie, I call the second scene
1.5. It is a fairly simple scene, so I decided that as long as I planned to
revise the movie on-line, it would be an easy addition.
In the original version of the scene a woman passes Arthur
on the street. She smiles at him, but he is caught up in his own thoughts and
doesn't notice her. Someone thought that she was a prostitute, which is not
what I intended. I wanted to revise the scene so that people wouldn't see it
that way.
I had the woman sit at a table outside a coffee shop with a
third character that I added. The two women are talking, although I don't
actually have them talk, just gesture at each other. When Arthur walks by, the
woman glances at him, then turns back to smile at him. As in the original
version, Arthur doesn't notice her.
Version 0.6
When I uploaded version 0.5, it took something like 14 hours
to finish! I didn't want to do that this time, so I took advantage of YouTube's
on-line video editor. I combined the first two scenes and a short piece of the
third scene, and uploaded the combined video. Then I used the editor to cut off
the first two scenes from version 0.5 and add in the revised scenes.
I never used the on-line editor before and I found it
difficult to work with. It didn't seem to have precision I wanted, although,
that could just be my inexperience. I wanted to cut at the end of the short
piece of scene 3 that I uploaded.
I fiddled with the cut for a long time. I couldn't see any
way to test it, except to create the whole movie, which took many hours to
generate. Fortunately it turned out OK. I can see a slight glitch a few seconds
into the third scene, but I think most people wouldn't notice it. If I had managed
to cut out one or two frames more, it would have worked just fine.
I don't plan to do much in the way of promotion for this
version. I want to save that for the "final" version I plan to do. I
will leave this project until the new version of Xtranormal becomes available.
I have a bunch of unfinished projects I could work on next. "My Most Difficult Case" has
been hanging over me for far too long. I would like to get it out of the way,
so I can move on to other things with a clear conscience.
This post is a mirror from my main blog http://www.dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/blog
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