
My week has gone wonky. Monday, for some reason, I went to bed at 9am as normal, and didn't wake up until my wife opened the bedroom door and said, "Kev, you okay?"
And I'm like, "Sure, why?" and she said, "Because it's 7pm and you're still in bed."
I was a little confused. But I got up and got to work.
Only problem was, I couldn't go back to sleep Tuesday, so I went to a movie. Saw Act of Valor. Man, that is not a good movie. Some horrible acting coupled with a horrible screenplay. Some cool action scenes, but pretty terrible with my newest HUGE pet peeve in movies.
OUT OF FOCUS SHOTS DO NOT BELONG IN YOUR MOVIE
It's like, how lazy are cinematographers and directors now that they consider this distracting practice to be part of their "style"? I've seen the same shit in Contraband, Safehouse, and now this flick.
You know what? In the old days if you lost focus, you redid the take. I'm not even talking about SOFT FOCUS, which these movies have plenty of. (no idea how they pass QC)
Why don't we just start considering not white-balancing part of our style? And bad composition? And bad acting? Part of my style, man. Fucking further degradation of the art of filmmaking. Way to go, new generation. You're really pushing the bounds.
Hope you all enjoy your free out-of-focus movies.
Came home, fell asleep for 3 hours, then back up...
...back to GOH. I have this 90 second scene with AMAZINGLY-BAD audio. Last night I spent three hours using every trick in the book to make it acceptable. I have no idea how it's going to sound in a movie theater.
Then I went to sleep at like 7am and slept until 4pm. My schedule is all messed up. I had a dream that I went to a class reunion(which I have never done). The whole thing was a weird disaster but for some reason Jill Schoelen was there. She said she was in one of my classes.
I have no idea why my psyche would have chosen her out of all the b-list celebrities to include in my dream(I'm not that big a fan of hers...)
I'm prepping to go work some more on the movie. By prepping, I mean, trying to talk myself into it. I'm actually more interested in working on the trailer.