Production Note #23
It’s been a while since our last Production Note, and we sincerly apologize for not keeping you up to date in the last couple of weeks. So much has been going on, it was simply too much to put into words – and it still kind of is.
After our scheduled-to-be-final screening of the movie, we realised that there’s still some work to be done, especially in terms of establishing the scenery of some of the scenes. So we added many new images, especially Long and Medium Long Shots to transport a stronger sense of the respective surroundings. We also shortened some of the scenes and broke up some of our interview parts by intercutting them with real scenes. We even added some new scenes that weren’t there before but are, we think, really great.
We also invented two alternative versions of how to start the movie, and we just couldn’t decide which one of our three possible starts is the best. So we asked quite some people, filmmakers, friends and supporters of the movie which ending they liked best. And, guess what: Nearly all of them liked our existing ending best! So we’ll keep it, but we’ll still try to improve it.
Lisa is working on another version of the movie as we write this, and we’ll watch it next week to see if all the changes work the way we hope and think they do. If they do, we’ll have a final screening where we decide upon last details and finish the editing process up by the end of next week. That would mean that we would still be able to keep up with our schedule to finish the movie in June. So let’s keep our fingers crossed!
In other news, we reached 1500 Facebook fans this week. And, as promised earlier, we revealed the title of our movie as we reached that mark. Here it is:
We hope y’all like it as much as we do, and we’d like to give a big Shout Out to our DoP Viktor Schaider who came up with this wonderful title!
The new web adress www.lateblossomblues.com redirects to this page for now – we’ll launch the new website at a later point.
Over the last weeks, Wolfgang was also very busy preparing his annual music festival, the LINZFEST. Two years ago, he invited Leo to this festival, and that’s where this whole story took off. The festival starts tomorrow, and he’ll be working from can’t to can’t, as Leo likes to put it, for the next three days – actually even WAY longer than that.
We really hope to give you some exciting news from the editing table next week. Thank you all for your interest and patience, and enjoy the Whitsun Holidays.