Rough cut complete and website coming soon!

After several weeks we at last have our first cut of the film together! It's a genuine thrill to see everything hang together and the story as it was on the page now fully come to life on the screen. My editor Donovan de Souza worked extremely hard at molding the footage into an engaging narrative and I am deeply impressed with his work.

Over the past few weeks we worked methodically and chronologically through each scene, finally getting scene ten completed today. Overall editing was a fairly smooth experience, with the one exception of scene seven, which we soon realised was without a doubt the most complex in terms of on-screen action and coverage. After an incredibly intense and lengthy editing session, however, Donovan managed to pull it all into line and now scene seven is probably the tightest in the entire film.

Editing has once again made me deeply appreciative of my actors' excellent work during production, cutting Gita and StJohn's interaction in scene ten surprised both my editor and myself for the pure pleasure we got from watching it come together. The emotion and depth of feeling in the sequence is awesome and it now probably ranks as my favourite part of the film even though the coverage is mostly simple A/B stuff. Goes to show that a good performance from your actors can often outshine even the most impressive displays of technical wizardry.

We were both extremely excited today when we finally got to watch the whole film run from start to finish and, not content to sit on our laurels, immediately started working on tightening up the running time.

I'm really conscious of trying to hit that 15 minute running time for festival entry and today we managed to get the cut to 14 minutes and 58 seconds without credits. I am a little concerned about how much more we can afford to cut from the film without compromising the narrative, but I'm sure we can look into some creative solutions and hopefully the feedback from the industry locals next week will throw up a few good outsider perspectives.

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The promotional website for "Alice(remix)" is coming together at the moment and I'm very happy with the current designs, we're looking to launch in the next few weeks so keep your eyes peeled. We've also got a raft of stills that have yet to see the light of day, as well as work on the trailer starting very soon!