Picture lock is nigh

photo by E. Hammen

Picture lock is nigh. 

Last night I was working on the film and thinking, "Well, I'm not touching the opening credits anymore, they're ready for Eric Anderson to work on font and layout."

And then, I looked at the credits this morning... and I thought the same thing!

Picture lock is nigh. 

This morning I also looked at a pretty major (actually very minor) last-minute shakeup I did to a little scene, and lo and behold it looked spot-on.

I'm meeting with multi-talented and very patient Ahren Buhmann the week after this to start color correction.

Picture lock is nigh!

"Nigh" is a funny word. It seems like it has to be connected to "night" but the etymology references I've seen imply this is only a coincidence.

Today's photo is also not related to Beach Town, but it might as well be. Long n' low is the angle here.

I love sidewalks and I love grass in sidewalk cracks. Is anyone up for making a feature film entirely about this? It'd be called "Grass in the Sidewalks". Or maybe "Flaming Grass", just to spice things up a bit. Or maybe "Grass -- and I Don't Mean the Kind You Roll up and Smoke, I Mean the Kind that Grows between the Cracks of your Sidewalk!" I'm sure Kickstarter revenues would be boffo.

Social hour: 
I saw costumer Barbara Blunt in the coffee shop last week! Great to see her out of the theater and walking around in the daytime.  Also heard from Iain Dalton, who has been working on music videos recently -- very cool!