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Two Week Film Challenge Update

Three filmmakers are into production on their films and all of them are chronicling their process...

Filmmaker: Lucas McNelly
Two Week Film: From God's Eyes
Blog: 100 Films
Twitter: @lmcnelly

This took 2 hours to light. #2wkfilm

Filmmaker: Reid Gershbein
Two Week Film: The Dabbler, The Dreamer and the Man Who Broke the World
Blog: Royal Baronial Theatre
Twitter: @thraveboy

Clip of Jeffery Davis and Orlando Mendoza

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Filmmaker: Mike Peter Reed
Two Week Film: The Original Soundtrack
Blog: Filmmaker Slog
Twitter: @britmic

So as I write this I'm rendering the final cut out to Apple ProRes (which will probably result in a file around 60GB in size). I'm hoping that having removed all render files and using this I-frame codec that the luminance full-frame intensity shifts I was seeing on the subtitle overlays will not find its way into the master file. But if it does ... well, not much time to fix it. There's plenty of things I don't like about The Original Soundtrack production values, but overall I'm pretty satisfied with the way it's turned out.

--#2wkfilm 'The Original Soundtrack' Final Cut

It's interesting to see how different filmmakers tackle making a film in two weeks.

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