COVID Dystopia: Fun Spot

The animation on this Fun Spot scene seems to work as it is. When I uploaded a recent edit of the film onto Film Freeway, I discovered a slew of scenes that ended up cropping incorrectly. Black bars appear on the right side of the screen. I am going through the whole film to try and catch each and every one of these glitches.

I have been viewing the film mostly in the Premiere Pro program. In that program the film plays against a dark field. With that dark field I didn’t notice the dark glitches. It was only when watching the film on Film Freeway, that I noticed the glitches. Film Freeway plays the film against a light tan filed and the black bars suddenly became obvious. I have also been watching the film on a tiny laptop screen.

I didn’t notice the glitches when the film played on a large screen at the Chicago International Reel Shorts Film Festival. That is because the theater was dark and the glitches would have been less obvious. Anyway, now I am on the case.

COVID Dystopia: Press Kit Page 2

This contents page of the pdf has links to each of the other pages in the press kit. I spent the afternoon figuring out how to get those links to work. The press release has links to Analog Artist Digital World along with Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts. Now I am wondering if I should have a page devoted to just those links and basic film information kike format, duration etc. I might throw that together today.

I thought I might be dome with the film yesterday, but I found that the Lake Eola Zombie scene was blurry. I am doubling the scene resolution today and reworking that animation in Callipeg. I discovered that exporting high resolution images from Procreate as PNGs and then importing them into Callipeg resulted in the image losing resolution. I tried exporting the same image as a PNG File image and the resolution was better. It would have been nice to learn this on the first day of production rather than the last day. UGH!

I am happy that a better version of the film is now on Film Freeway and any revisions from now on are just issues in improving resolution. I am going to add a single white frame into the last scene in the film where the virus explodes. I think that flash will add some extra punch when the scene is projected in a dark theater.