Been editing (edit assisting anyway) over the course of the last few weeks, working with the footage we've got back from the Bones of Essimer shoot.
Suppose the trickiest part of it has been editing with the greenscreen footage. I haven't worked with greenscreen footage before so editing with it was strange. Hard to really see if what you're cutting is any good with a bright green background jumping out at you, it's really quite distracting and it colours (no pun intended) how you perceive the performances. But hopefully once all the vfx elements are in place it will come together. And sound as well - that's another big thing, difficult to tell how the end product will look because sound and music play an important part in how the cinematic is interpreted. But we've done what we think is right at this stage and now we have plenty of work on the vfx side of things to get us ready for the premiere and for Armageddon Auckland on Oct 24th.
We've had feedback from a few people on the edit, and they've given some useful advice, but I think we may need more outsider opinions to gauge how an audience who has no knowledge of Essimer would respond. Because we've been "living" in the Essimer world for so long, it's easy to fall into the trap of assuming the audience knows as much as us about the story, when obviously they don't.
Still have to organise pick-up shoots as well, then onto the task of packing things down, returning props, costumes etc.
Will post some screengrabs soon.
