Re: [Avid-L2] A feature I cut opens tomorrow on 1,300 screens!

Congrats!

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com>wrote:

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> Hi friends,
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> Last year I edited a feature, along with the director and my friend Bill
> Ebel, called "Courageous."
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> Presales for the film are already at $2million which is unusual for an
> independent feature, to say the least. And we're the number two movie in
> Fandango sales for the weekend. It opens on 1,300 screens Friday.
>
> The movie was shot RED and cut in FCP7 from 130 hours of footage, which was
> daunting.
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> I really loved the experience of cutting this film. It was my first
> dramatic feature and it was definitely a challenge. I did not complete the
> edit. My job was to get the initial edit cut for the first delivery to Sony
> back in October of last year. That initial edit was 2.5 hours. It was then
> the director's job to cut it down to the final 2 hour running time.
>
> I'll be writing a story on the complete "camera to screen" post production
> process including all of the ingest, conversion, organization, on-line
> conform, color correction and filmout process for provideocoaltion.com,
> but I'd be happy to answer any questions people have about the process. I
> also just presented to the Chicago Final Cut Pro Users group about my
> experience last night.
>
> I have to say that it's pretty cool to see my name on a movie poster and on
> the big screen (before the roll even!) but I was really blessed to be part
> of this film and all of the glory and credit needs to go to God. And a thank
> you to the director, Alex Kendrick, who was a great editing partner and took
> a chance on an editor with no track record in drama.
>
> Please go see this movie this weekend. It has a little of everything, great
> laugh-out-loud humor, multiple action sequences, car chases, gun battles,
> heart-tugging drama...
>
> Also, I shot two shots in the movie on my 5D after principle photography
> was over. Can you guess which they were? (The difficulty level is increased
> on this game because 5Ds shot some of the action sequence stuff, too, so
> there are maybe 20 5D shots in the movie.)
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
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