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Intrepid Release Day

Category: Intrepid Moviemaking Tags: Science Fiction

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Release day 2007, that is.

Courtesy of Jo, here’s a photo taken on the evening on the release of Heavy Lies the Crown. The afternoon was a rather fraught one, spent with Nick grappling with rendering a recalcitrant movie that didn’t want to be rendered. A month or so earlier I’d converted all the sequences to Quicktime because my laptop didn’t play nice with the MJPEG avis that I’d been using all this time. Rendering took an hour and we were running short of time to make the midnight deadline, inlcuding uploading for Micheal to place them on the servers. David’s final theme hadn’t arrived, so we agreed to use one of the trailer tracks in its place.

The IM was silent. Ten minutes. Fifteen minutes. And just as I was about to hit the button for the final output, David popped up with a message saying that the theme was ready to download. Hastily placed in the edit and then an hours rendering, then an hours uploading and four and a half years of effort was at at end.

I felt decidedly odd at that point.

What would everyone think? Would they like it? Would they hate it? So Nick went home and I went for a few drinks with Jo, who took the picture. As far as I know it’s the only photo we have from release Day. The hat and TV were added by the camera phone she used.

Intrepid Release Day

I’m still not sure what my expression means!

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