Timelines, Continuity and Sweet Marketing Buildings

You can take a short click over to Jay's blog to see a little vlog we did on the first day of production. The building we're shooting in is owned by G&G Advertising, a pretty sweet looking outfit based in Billings. As you can see in the video, the wall is old-school brick and some pretty thick plaster. We pimped out the set in what we all consider to be non-boring / industrial. Setting up the lighting was pretty easy, camera positioning was a little tricky because of a column located almost dead centre of our set. Setup overall was easy, and the first day of shooting was also mostly-partly-kind of seamless. When we got to the capture part we had a little "it would be nice if..." moment regarding FCP / Adobe reading internal timecode on .dv clips. We know the TC is there, as we've been writing down timecode and notes in between shoots/pauses/retakes, but the "read timecode" option isn't quite working the way we'd like it to. There are a couple way around it, but all involve laying the clips down on a timeline and then re-exporting as a video and then re-importing as a single clip... weeeeee... right? I'd give you more details on it, but we're leaving in 5 minutes so as to make it into the studio by 8. (and pick up some coffee on the way!)

more to come...