And then there was Elan Vital

I love those photos below! What a random assortment... If you're not familiar with the script, you must be having several disturbing visions right now imagining what it must be about :-P

Speaking of which, all the drastic pains we took on set and in rehearsal to really follow the script have been paying off in post. The footage looks beautiful, and the actors look great, but the story is really taking shape. We're well into the rough cut, and although it's a little frustrating to watch without the sound being superb, we're going to be coming out of our dungeon with a beautiful film, thanks to everyone who worked so hard on it. And Matt. :-P

The biggest challenge right now is sifting through the ton of footage to find those precious gems of moving pictures. I left the camera running between takes, hoping to augment our "behind the scenes" doc that Bianca is making (you all saw her gliding around with her camera, catching private conversations and those embarassing "alone moments"), but as a consequence I've made our editing process that much more challenging. Now Jason and I have to weed through all the footage of Matt making faces at the camera in order to get to the good stuff. It makes finding the money shots like a little celebration! Jason and I actually high five each other once we drop the clips into the timeline and see the magic!

Well, I'm off to work. Time to edit. :-)

Two words:

Shiny electroencephalograph.

Previously on "Élan Vital"...

As you can see, we shot a film. Now we're in postproduction.