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| The Verisimilitude of All Literary Endeavours Part 4 Shot in Stephen's house (after his mother made a lovely stew) were the breakfast scene (you can see Stephen and the camera in the reflection of the kettle), the shoe scene, the scene where Reader leaves the house (note he is reading a different book than he is in the shoe scene with which this shot cuts), the scene where he returns to the house and Wanker takes out Cliffs Notes (note that Andy has difficulty opening the hall door), and finally, as it got dark, the two bed scenes (note that you can see Andy's trousers around his ankles in the second of these two shots), during which Andy expressed a worrying fondness for being covered in books. Once all principle photography was completed, Andy and Martin recorded their dialogue onto the camcorder to be transferred onto Andy's computer and enhanced later. They all knew that the monologues were too long, but they would be easy to cut later (and Martin did fall asleep as Andy recorded the central piece). Once that was done, Stephen shot all the CUs and ECUs of the book covers and excerpts for the author vision sequence. And with that, The Verisimilitude was complete. Now, with over a month to edit, it was simply going to be a case of cutting the picture, then cutting the monologues, and then relaxing. Oh, how wrong could you be, as the sheer incompetency of the smucks in DLIADT was about to surface yet again. Postproduction: Having returned to college on January 8th, and with a deadline of February 20th, there should have been no problem getting everything done in time, but that is not taking into account the fact that the powers that be in DLIADT are so stupid, that they would fail the entrance exam to a home for the mentally handicapped. Upon returning to college, Stephen found he was the only person in his class of 23 to have actually shot his personal vision project. However, he was also one of only a few people who hadn't shot on Digital, and hence he was one of only a few who didn't have access to editing equipment at home - he needed to tansfear his rushes onto BETA and edit them on the college machines. However, in their infinite wisdom, the staff had moved said machines from the 1st year room to the 3rd year room to allow the 3rd years do rough cuts of their graduation pieces. Stephen approached king-smuck Liam Regan about the situation and was asked if he could not edit VHS to VHS. He responded by saying he shouldn't have to. Liam reluctantly agreed and thus promised the return of one of the machines for the 3 people who needed it. Needless to say, after travelling from Finglas the next day, the machine didn't turn up. By the end of the week there was still no sign of it, and as the days, and then weeks went by and the machine still didn't turn up, it became apparent that it was going to be tough to meet the February 20th deadline. In the meantime, on January 21st, Stephen met with Martin and Andy to fix the monologues. This simply involved the adding of the voice effects on the dream narration as heard in the final film, the trimming of a few words and phrases here and there that would be too precise to do correctly on the BETA machines, and the alteration of the odd bit of pronunciation and the like. Back to DLIADT and January turned into February, and still no machine. Now other people, who had shot and edited digitally, began to present their finished projects, and as the weeks rolled on and the deadline approached Stephen found himself in the almost surrealistically ridiculous situation of being the only person with a completely unedited project, despite the fact that he had been the first to complete shooting. Finally, two days before the deadline, a machine turned up, but the other two people who needed it got onto it first and Stephen turned up for his assessment with only raw footage. Needless to say, he was criticised for this, and needless to say he didn't take it. Asked why he hadn't edited his film, he responded by asking why the department misrepresented itself by claiming to be a film department when all it was, was a good old boys club which wanted graduates to be businessmen, not artists (or words to that affect). He attacked Regan's favouritism towards certain students (Regan had his tongue so far up one of their arses that a pieces of his arse was in their arse). He also wondered how come the college had produced not one gratuate who had gone on to work in any prominent position on a single prominent production. Yikes!!! (You suck Regan, oh how you suck) Finally, on March 6th, working from 11 in the morning till 7 that evening, Stephen edited the film, cutting the images first and then adding in the dialogue. Most of the monologues were reduced in length, and the author names had to be extended, but all in all, the editing, once it was possible, was a pretty simple affair. The Verisimilitiude of All Literary Endeavours was finished, and so was Stephen's relationship with DLIADT. on to the verisimilitude of all literary endeavours page 5 back to verisimilitude page 3 back to products links page back to home |