Final cut!!!!

Yes. The shortmovie is now edited. Yesterday I watched it, and did four minor changes to some cutpoints, and thought: Thats it. I´m happy. The movie is something around 24min40s. long, without credits.
Now begins the sound designing. Hope everything goes well. I try to get to Karhula as soon as possible to visit Arttu and give him all the material needed. While Arttu does his sound designing, I finish the graphic design, colour correction (which takes a lot of time) and all kinds of postproduction thingies needed to be done. I guess in a month or so we can deside the premiere date! That will be awesome. I must also edit all the extramaterial to the dvd and do subtitles.
Editing prosses was hard, but not so intensive, cause I didn´t have the time to do it full time. But that´s okay, cause I had more time to think about it this way. It is funny how it came closer to the original script, the one written 3 years ago, as I edited the material. Some scens were cut out, which weren´t in the original script anyway. Some scenes are changed and assimilated to others. a minor change in the order of the scenes has been done.
There is the feeling of inspiration and happines when you discover new ways to do things, especially with the material you have been working with a long time. Its almost as good feeling as the feeling in a filminglocation when you see that this scene works and the material will be great (unfortunately its rarely true, altough it feels like it) and you are in state of inspiration all the time. These kind of feelins are the reason to do things like this. Its a natural high almost! (sorry for the cliche again).
What is a bit bad is the fact that this has really took a lot of my time and energy, and now it is really hard to find the strenght to do schoolwork. i feel like vomiting when I think that I must edit the next 8 weeks of archive material to some kind of short film. Well, not yet but in few weeks will begin a class which takes 8 weeks...oh my god.

New script has begun to evolve in my brain. Soon I begin to write it. I´m very exited about it. But I can´t tell you much about it. I had the idea while shooting this film, and slowly I realized the connections to my other ideas, and realised that this is a script to be done. Everything will start again! But it might take a while before it is done, for I must really concentrate on the next script, cause it must be much much better than the last one.

Now it is time to do some musicvideo-videoart things, and concentrate to school..maby. And ofcourse, to do the sound design and dvd for this shortmovie. So, it never ends, Im always busy.

Nearing the end of editing.

Thanks for all the support, I really appreciate it. But things arent´t so bad as I may make them sound. The shortfilm is now in a pretty good shape. I cut everything out, just to put them back in, in a different way. Many fresh ideas came during last week. I was really happy. Lenght is now 25minutes. This week or next week I will stop editing. All depends how long I can work with the material during next weeks. I have a lot to do again. I should edit one shortmovie (with 30minutes of material, which isnt so much) and this week I must edit a cinema verité-documentary practise, at school. It´s also Love&Anarchy- filmfestival. I have 8 tickets..maby. Let´s see. Yesterday I saw Scanner Darkly and Regular Lovers, I´ll propably write about them later, if I have time. Colour me Kubric, Artschool confidental, Tideland, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Science of Sleep and Pan´s Labyrinth are yet to see.
Even though I stop editing in nearby weeks, it doesn´t mean that the movie will be finished. Our sound designer Markku has left the project. Nothing personal I guess, we had no dissagreements or anything, He just felt that he must concentrate to his bands next album.
So, now Arttu Horttanainen will do the sound designing. Hope evertyhing goes well, there will be a bit more for me to do now. But that´s okay I guess. Also the DVD printing is a problem, and that will require some time also.
I´m planning to do some buttons..chestbuttons, I don´t know what they are in English..So anyway. 5 different kinds, about the movie ofcourse, all will have a different character on them. Buy! 2 euros is the price! I don´t know when they will be ready. I must do all this kind of things, buttons, posters, dvd-menus some day...
Only thing I´m a bit nervous about is the fact about the woman characters. They are not meant to represent women in real life, anymore than the male characters are. Maby, when you combine all the characters, you could get something that represenst a person in real life, but in this movie characters represent ideas more than people.

Big Changes

hello. Today I did some massive changes to the movie. It is now 24 minutes long and, as you might guess, we must say goodbye to some supporting roles. This was really hard thing to do. But screening today convinced me that this must be done.

It is a really funny thing you know. You do something, for so long, you don´t want to loose anything related to it. I love all the material, even the parts I hate. I couldn´t cut anything out. And still can´t, cause Im not sure what is the point in that. The movie won´t be anything like shortmovies made in Taik (my school) or any other school. It is not about the characters, eventough there is a lot of colorfull ones, not about the plot, not about the milieu..so what is it about? The movie is made from totally selfish reasons. Its my daydream from few years back. Its about a feel I had back then. Its a sum of things and events I think are cool. Nothing more. Even the characters, whichs leads to a certain problem about the womancharacters, which are suprisingly often considered as stupid and naive and some people have questioned my mental picture about women because of this. But I cannot understand that. this has nothing to do with that. The women are what they are supposed to be like in this kind of story. Why? Isint that a clisee? Yes!!. But from my point of view, the whole film is naive. No one stands on a bridge drinking red wine and sayin "these roads split the city in half" thats just stupid!! But anyway, I like the scene in my movie.
Im not trying to hide behind things or defend the movie from critisism. Or maby I am. Anyway, this was a test. A sample. what can be done..what not..youknow..I´ve said this before.

Still, After all this, there are still things that work, and things that dont. Today I got some opinions saying in short that "this movie is totally bad". so, that gave me some perspective.

Altough most of the critisism which I recieved were about things I had already thought about., there is something in that when you get some one else to say it. It is hard, you get angry and frustrated and you feel like saying "you dont understand anything! Shut up!" but at the same time, if you can keep calm and think about it, It is often the thing you wanted to hear. Why show it to anyone when its not finished if you want to hear just how good it is.

Now Im really embarassed about the versions I´ve shown to people. But I guess thats one of the lessons of this. Speaking of lessons, this has been a really interesting experiment. I now undestand bad films more! :) no, seriously, this is so allcovering project, you know, whole thing in my arms, almost. That, as I´ve said, this had to be done, to prevent mistakes like this in the future.

It is also overwhelming to see your self surrounded by clisee. A 22 year old art student made a shortfilm which is totally artsy, no connection to reality, bad dialogue and incomprihensible plot. Nudity is just missing.

I also found a wallet. It had 200 euros in it. I phoned the numberfinder and found the number of the person whos drivers license was in the wallet. He seemed a bit stressed about the situation and gave me 3 euros. Haha. Anyway I´m happy that I didn´t steal his money. Do good things and good things will happen.

My Neck Hurts.

My head hurts. Because my neck is jammed or something. I try to stretch out in the mornings, but it doesn´t help. I might have to start doing some sports more often, altough I try to jog once a week and swim. But I haven´t swam in many months, in the sense of sports I mean. Ofcourse I´ve swam in the summer but that has nothing to do with sports.
The TRAILER for the shortmovie "We Can Not Stay Here" is online. Please watch it. Music is by Markku Lahtelan Sirkus their music will be almost all music in the movie. yeah.

The Ex bass player for anathema contacted me to do some videoartvideo to his new soloalbum songs. That is cool. really cool. This will be an interesting project. great.

Time is limited for humans.One day is sometimes really short period of time. I´ve expanded it by putting my computer to work and going shopping/school and so on. Also I´m preparing to buy a laptop. That will expand my working hours more. this big computer can render and capture video, while I do other things with my laptop. THis means that I can do things faster, and more, which means that I will go insane. Or maby not. Maby it´ll help.

I´ve shot and edited two weddingvideos while editing the shortmovie, going to school, seeing my girlfried (yeah, seems that I have a girlfriend now ;) ) and doing other stuff which I cannot recall. Going to movies and bars and so on...reading exambooks ( which actually I haven´t done). So, the weddingvideos really anoyed me, but money is money, what can you do.
But editing weddingvideos really numbs you. I´m proud and scared to say that atleast some of the weddingvideos I´ve done really turn out to be good, like the latest. I shoot them with 2 cameras ( latest video was the first I shot with my new camera, really nice progressive picture, changes of focus..things like that..yeah!) and I edit them to be a nice 1hour thing.. I really don´t know why I write this here. I won´t do any weddingvideos anymore! You can imagine how I felt last week when I had swedishclass and in the evenings I edited weddingvideos. I was ready to tear my eyes out.

But that´s over now. Markku has done some small sounddesign things for the movie, but I haven´t locked the picture yet.. This week I´ll watch it from a big screen! That will be interesting. I´ll take some my friend editing students with me and expetc them to say something. Yesterday I did a new ending for the film. really nice. really. ALtough the music is not yet what I want..