Four weeks = 28 days = 672 hours.

With just 4 hours remaining, the project is over 99% done. But the film is still being feverishly worked on. To my left, Keith is editing the audio for a beautiful scene at a location called “Poverty Point,” and across from me, Derek Van Gorder is doing the same to a scene with the stunning Brigitte Choura.

Miles away, Chad Sonenberg and Lee Gillentine are ADR’ing some dialogue with James Fauvell – I’m supposed to be looping that dialogue into a scene with less than perfect audio by 11:59:59 tonight but the clock is ticking.

All that is to say, the work is never finished – BUT WE WILL STOP AT MIDNIGHT. What will be screened in SLC tomorrow night and NYC next weekend will be exactly FOUR WEEKS worth of work, not a second more or less. Eventually, we will sweeten the audio and color correct and all those bells and whistles that make a film feel like actual cinema and not a piece of crap.

As eager as we all are to sleep in a bedroom with less than three people back in NYC where we can get thai food delivered and catch up on Mad Men, we are equally anticipating properly polishing this rock into a glistening movie diamond.

Til then – ONLY FOUR HOURS LEFT!!!

-ML

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