Support the completion of The Greater meaning of Water

[CEngelbrecht]

We have had another business donation:
Real Carbon LLC
Thank you very much.

[Wireheadsfx]

Hey All,

First I wanted to give a personal thanks to REAL CARBON LLC for their donation to the GMW project.

Second I wanted to tell you all that Sky and I had some major breakthroughs over the last 24hours. We reworked 6 scenes last night, trimming some and adding to others. The Voice Over now adds so much more richness to the story, we are dancing in our seats we are so exited about the results. We managed to finish editing and run out of steam just after the sun came up this morning. Quite a feat since we started the editing marathon yesterday at about 3pm. We slept til about noon today and are waking up to do it again tonight. We have really genertated some good momentum here and are looking forward to delivering a very fun and introspective look into freediving and Sports on the elite level.

till next time, thanks again all, will post again soon.


Sky working on scene assembly with GMW notes and flash cards, before we jumped into editing.


Sky at the helm just after the sun came up. Pushing through the last scene of the evening...morning...whatever.

[BennyB]

Thanks for the updates, keep up the great work guys!

Cheers,
Ben

[ADR]

Having seen the rough cut I'm really looking forward to what you guys do with the final version...all the best for the final days

[MBanks]

Hi guys,
Good work on the film, I can't wait to see it. Forgive me if this might have already been mentioned, it has been a while since I have visited this forum but I just had a thought pop into my head regarding this film...

I don't know how far you are through with organizing duplication and distribution, but I wondered if you had considered the online service where paying customers pay full price and download films to burn to DVD, a legal servce.

This would certainly cut down on the cost of materials and labour of the manufacturing. There could also be environmental benifits somewhere along the line from this method.

Just a thought.


Good luck!
Martin.

[Wireheadsfx]

Hey Martin,

Thanks for the reply.

I think that is a very good idea and I have a feeling Sky and I may have a system like that out for customers to enter a credit card number and to download and burn a copy. However, not possible buyers are as computer savy as yourself. So I feel that having copies on hand to ship is a good idea as well.

Well, as far as updates, Sky and I finished a second rough final visual cut 2 nights ago and watched on a projector with no sound so we can check the visual aspects of the film and make certian there is a nice smooth flow to the film and plenty of breathing room between scenes. With the Voice overs now added, there needs to be even more padding between ideas as to allow the viewer to soak them in so we have been able to use alot of the shots we thought we didnt have time for before. Which now is going to make the new cut of the film over 1hr long. Now allowing us to enter this in as a full length feature at film festivals which will cause viewers to take the film more seriously as unfortunatley a short film or less than feature length film often is. Our previous cut was 44 min long we are now sitting at 1hr and may ad another minute or to by the time we add all of the the little shots here and there that we want in to smooth out the visual transgression of the film.

I sat at the editor yesterday for about 8 hrs ,then after showing sky my progress, we had a brainstorm session for another 2 hrs just trying to finalize the thoughts within the film and make certain all of the narrative continuity was present.

I will be leaving to head back to Colorado on the 1st of Aug, so we will be hammering very hard the next 4 days to make certain we have a completed and finalized visual cut ready by the end of my time here. We once back in Colorado, I can continue work on the foley and diagetic sound in the film as sky reconnects the sound from the dat tapes now that we have changed some of the takes in the film we need to add the correct sound. Also, Sky will be changing a bit of the music and adding more of the amazing work if Jeff Grienke.

I will update again soon, keep the faith.

Just keep swimming

JFW out

[Wireheadsfx]

Hey Martin,

Thanks for the reply.

I think that is a very good idea and I have a feeling Sky and I may have a system like that out for customers to enter a credit card number and to download and burn a copy. However, not possible buyers are as computer savy as yourself. So I feel that having copies on hand to ship is a good idea as well.

Well, as far as updates, Sky and I finished a second rough final visual cut 2 nights ago and watched on a projector with no sound so we can check the visual aspects of the film and make certian there is a nice smooth flow to the film and plenty of breathing room between scenes. With the Voice overs now added, there needs to be even more padding between ideas as to allow the viewer to soak them in so we have been able to use alot of the shots we thought we didnt have time for before. Which now is going to make the new cut of the film over 1hr long. Now allowing us to enter this in as a full length feature at film festivals which will cause viewers to take the film more seriously as unfortunatley a short film or less than feature length film often is. Our previous cut was 44 min long we are now sitting at 1hr and may ad another minute or to by the time we add all of the the little shots here and there that we want in to smooth out the visual transgression of the film.

I sat at the editor yesterday for about 8 hrs ,then after showing sky my progress, we had a brainstorm session for another 2 hrs just trying to finalize the thoughts within the film and make certain all of the narrative continuity was present.

I will be leaving to head back to Colorado on the 1st of Aug, so we will be hammering very hard the next 4 days to make certain we have a completed and finalized visual cut ready by the end of my time here. We once back in Colorado, I can continue work on the foley and diagetic sound in the film as sky reconnects the sound from the dat tapes now that we have changed some of the takes in the film we need to add the correct sound. Also, Sky will be changing a bit of the music and adding more of the amazing work if Jeff Grienke.

I will update again soon, keep the faith.

Just keep swimming

JFW out

[Wireheadsfx]

Oops, sorry for the double post.

JFW

[fourfeetdown]

Great news to hear that the film is back on track. If you do go ahead with the "credit card and burn your own DVD" idea, I hope you'll also be selling the Blu-ray and HD-DVD versions - the imminent release of your film on Blu-ray is why I finaly bought a HDTV......!! (Would really like to see your work in the best possible quality!)
I had my name down on the pre-order list as soon as I heard about the film - I'd be happy to pay up front (ie. before the film is released). Perhaps if enough of us could do that it may help the finances a little?
All the best with the rest of your project.
Adrian

[Wireheadsfx]

Hey Adrian,

Yes, we have been planning to release the film on and HD format since its production, that was the reason we chose to shoot on a 1080 camera. We have been waiting to see who wins the battle in the HD wars and it looks like Blue-Ray will be the winner, and we are really exited about that. Looks like Sony might finally actually win a media battle for once. We will up date you on our final choice once the film has been distributed.

Update,

Sky and I have just been fine cutting for the last few days, adding more transitional footage to give the film breathing room, as well as adding even more visuals to reference internal thought, conflict, and dreams. We took a break for a couple hours last night but wanted to stay in the same mind set so we rented the film PEACEFUL WARRIOR.

If any of you have not seen the film yet, drop what you are doing and go and rent or buy it right now!! This film is a Must SEE, it embodies so much of what the flow state for freediving trains, and there are parallels all over the place. It was also based on a true story. There was no Miyagi character in real life, but the author of the book did have late night conversations with a gentleman at a gas station he called Socrates. I will not give any spoilers, but I can say this film does a ton of stuff with only 5 locations. Excellent filmmaking.

After watching the film Sky and I have been really tying to trim our film in such a way as to cause the viewer to feel some of the same truisms of Peacful Warrior. Both films cris-cross one another in thought process so much its amazing. I didnt know there was an inde-film already covering this topic in such depth. Most films only dabble in the really cool stuff.

Anyhow, More fine cutting to do. Hope you all are doing well and wish us luck as we come to a close on the visual lock of the film, only 2 days left to finish.

I love sliding across the finish line with no time left on the clock.

JFW out

[sheepeck]

It's great to see how the work goes.
I'm another of those wainting for a movie to make its way to audience.

[sheepeck]

Some updates?

[Jorg]

Ping... Any updates?

[apneaboy]

All quiet on the Westrern front...

Any more news, release date???

Info much appreciated

[Whopperhead]

Any updates? can't Wait! If anyone knows the progress- expected release? ANYTHING?