documenting the painful process of movie making... part 1

this is a real life chat over changes to a shot... I should recount it's long and painful life. It's enough to say that after months working on the shot, my animator has to virtually restart the shot from scratch, but just as he's started blocking in the new ideas, we get an audio change, not heretofore mentioned to us, that dictates a change in his action. A change that is exactly the opposite of what we've been asked to do...

(10:21:43 AM) Mack: i listened to the new audio on *****.*** and the **** was taken out.
(10:22:11 AM) Mack: from what i understood, ****** still wanted the gulp
(10:23:03 AM) Torn: ffs
(10:23:10 AM) Torn: i gotta find out wtf is happenning
(10:23:23 AM) Mack: madness i tell you............madness!
(10:25:11 AM) Torn: we're boned
(10:25:56 AM) Mack: i have grown immune to the boning

dark times....


* just like a government document, important information not available for civilian eyes has been blacked out. it's going to be a very funny movie though, trust me.