Last Week's Marketing Plan

It has been a busy couple of weeks and I apologize for the lack of a blog post last week. Graduation is quickly approaching.

There is nothing to really report this week. Dave wanted to tweak the project on his own and we have still yet to hear from the sound guy. He has not delivered our sound yet. I spent this week working on a paper and a separate documentary. We really cannot do anything until that guy gives us our sound files.

Last week, Dave and I completed our marketing plan (or at least a rough outline of where the budget will go to). Dave choose the festivals to submit Centipede to as well as creating the website. My responsibilities included creating the Facebook page, the rough draft of the promotional postcard, and figuring-out printing costs for the budget. Since a lot of the services that I found charge a fee for printing, I thought that buying a printer and having control over the printing would be cheaper for us in the long run. I also assembled the Excel document for the budget, mostly by plugging-in what I knew and creating the functions for the cells.

The presentation in the class went well. Prof. Silva’s main suggestion would be that we highly consider Vistaprint or another professional service for printing our promotional pieces.

Fine Cut Progress

This week has been easier now that David and I have not been bombarded with papers and work. To give David a break and a chance to research more about Withoutabox, I worked on the fine cut of Centipede. I took notes in our last class period and I made some of the edits that people suggested.

First I went through the whole thing and tried to edit down the time. After a couple of times of watching it, there were several shots that stood out to me mostly because of the duration. By editing these particular shots down, the pacing felt better and the suspense did not feel dragged out as it had previously. The second thing that I did was insert shots. The class suggested that we add more shots of the salad and the centipede, and I tried to find those shots to fill those voids. There were other small edits here and there, but duration and shot changes were my priority.

The one thing that I put off was the sound. David says that someone is supposed to deliver the sound soon. Once we get ahold of those files, it will be easier for us to play around with the sound and perfect it. I hope that there is audio of the lawyer yelling when the centipede bites him.

The one suggestion that David and I will not take is the idea to make the film campy. We both feel like it is not the route that we want to take for this project.