Thursday
We viewed the assembly edit for a couple of friends the other night and just having other sets of eyes watching made all the repetition and hard edits apparent. The feedback was great. Complimentary and also critical. Over the next couple of days, I cut it down to 1 hour 20 minutes.
Luci and I had a huge 4th party and it went off without a hitch. Everyone seemed to have a great time hanging out in our garden and later moving to the roof to watch the fireworks. Jeff Israel and Shannon Guirl organized some Super 8 films to play on our giant cinderblock wall. Lots of fun. We hope to have another garden party as well as outdoor films in the future.
We found out that the church (C&MA) have agreed to have a sit down follow-up meeting with some of our subjects in Colorado Springs in mid-August. We hope to have a picture locked version before the trip, come home edit the Colorado meeting for the ending in time for Sundance submission. We’ll see. It’ll be tight.