Archiculture

That is our final number of total frames. That is what all this energy and past 2 years has been leading to (with probably 1 more to go). That is the amount of images you will watch and digest to understand the students’ story of the studio. Follow me on my techy, nerdy mathematical tangent for a second:

(24 frames/second) x (60 seconds/minute) x (90 minute feature film) = 129,000 final total frames

To date we have shot over 150 hours of footage:

(24 frames/second) x (60 seconds/minute) x (60 minutes/hour) x (150 hours of raw footage) = 12,960,000 raw frames

Now for the biggie. The ratio of raw footage frames to final footage frames:

(129,000 final frames/12,960,000 raw frames) = 0.0099537 ~ 1.0%

Just trying to bring you all into the realities of the editing process. How do you start with soo much and eliminate 99% of it. It is not just taking the gems out and bam you’re done. You have to pull out the main story content, each character’s development, construct the premise of the thesis, build the tension with the projects and do this within 90 minutes.

So now you understand why we’ve been so silent of late.

Ive never been one to wait in lines nor the type of person to read instructions, matter of fact I would label myself as being intolerable to patience.  However, for the first time in life I am waiving the white flag to time.  I knew going into this project that it was going to require a lot of dedication and flexibility.  I was even warned by other filmmakers to learn how to roll with the punches or prepare to fail.  I’m not really willing to fail, so I am learning to roll with the punches.  We are definitely guilty of missing some opportunities and internal deadlines due to timing flaws.  Some of these things we have ourselves to blame and others have been completely our of our grasp.  For example, we did not anticipate fundraising during the sequel to the Great Depression.  We know that there are certain things we still need to capture, produce and accumulate to give this film the impact it deserves, and we are now willing to wait for these things.  As much as I want to be able to show people what I have been working on, as much as I want to educate people on the topics in the film, it is going to have to wait.  After all, it took 4 years to paint the Sistine Chapel.  So don’t think for a second that we have given up or run out of energy.

This is where all the magic happens. 300 square feet of fund raising, web updating, marketing, communicating and editing power in a small studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Since we no longer have our flycam up and running 24/7 we thought a photo was required. This is where countless hours are spent reviewing footage and making the step by step process of filtering out the story from selects. It has been our post-production home since we moved from the womb of Pratt’s dorm housing during production back in May. Its a pretty good place to be inspired and burn the midnight oil since we are surrounded by 15 other artist doing everything from painting, screen printing, writing and music making in our warehouse.

We would also like to introduce our Blog 2.0 agenda. Many new posts are in the making and we are recommitting ourselves to this space. Some of the ideas in the pipeline include posting rough cut clips from editing, starting an open dialogue via the comments posting, getting the students to chime in on the filming experience after the fact and catching you all up to speed on what has occured in post-production so far.