Editing sad stories

Makes me sad. Guess that’s sort of what I get for writing sad things in the first place. Oh my life is so sad. Sad sad sad.

I get shit done.

Spent the day polishing up a TV episode for an original series I worked on with my classmates.

Read up on a couple articles for my Environmental Design class.

Watched Inside Llewyn Davis (fantastic film. One of my favourites from 2013, for sure).

Got super news today that a memoir piece I submitted to Existere has been accepted for publication. Hell yes! Proceeded to stomp around in pure glee in my kitchen upon reading the email.

Spent the rest of the evening looking up film festivals where I could submit my short film, June, and submitted to a whole bunch.

Sometimes, I think my personal motto should be I’m gay, and I get shit done.

You know you’re film is good…

when, while editing it and watching it back, it makes you almost cry.

Cure(d) is finally done!

My latest short film, Cure(d), was finished a while back but there were some slight synching problems with the video and audio so I had to fix it quickly for the upcoming world premiere of it at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

Now, I don’t consider myself to be a professional editor by any means, but I have worked with Final Cut many times and I know my way around the program.  That being said, it can take friggin’ forever to render clips sometimes, and it doesn’t help that staring wide-eyed at the screen to make sure words are matching with the actors’ lips can make you go crazy too (“Looks like it’s synched… wait… yes… wait, maybe not… Fuck.”).  At the same time though, I’m glad I got to edit this film, as I can very particular about what I want which I think can be difficult to work with.

Anyhoo, it’s done.  Thank god.  I had exporting problems, which is, I think, one of the worst problems one can encounter while editing because 1. it takes about 30 – 40 minutes on average for it to export and 2. you can only tell if something’s wrong after it’s done and you play back the file.  Otherwise, you’re stuck waiting for a long time, believing what you’re exporting is going to be fabulous, only to find out there’s no audio on your film (which happened).  Argh.  I may have to go back to Langara and export the damn file again because it doesn’t seem to be playing back on my computer, despite the fact that I was able to burn it on the Mac once the export was done (and the DVD worked fine too).

Good thing I had my book there with me to read (Dan Savage’s The Kid, which I recommend).  In the meantime, Cure(d) will be screening on Saturday August 20th at 9:30pm at the Granville 7 Theatres.  You can buy tickets to the Coast is Queer Program that my short film is in at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival website here:  http://www.queerfilmfestival.ca/viewfilm.php?fid=653

Hope to see you there!  Since I don’t really have a website (does anyone want to help design a website for me?), I’ll be posting updates about the film and anything related on either here or my myspace film page: http://www.myspace.com/aaronchanfilm

That’s all.  And here’s a still from the film, as a sneak peek.

from Cure(d)