The film is finished! Chris Reading (sound) has just sent me the final sound mix with his sound design and Vince Pope’s music. Very exciting. It still needs a few tweaks here and there, and need to add the credits and titles, but it’s all done.

I’m going to send them off to the first lot of festivals this weekend. I’ll post more details when I get some more time, but wanted to share the news.

Sorry for the lack of updates. For a lot of the time I’ve been unwell, and then I’ve been having other problems/incidents causing the film to be delayed. I didn’t think it was worth blogging about them as it wouldn’t help the project and would just get me more upset.

Anyway, forget that, the important thing is Shattered Pieces is close to complete! (Pause for applause). For some reason, I won’t get into, I ended up doing all of the visual effects and I’m currently finishing off the last shot. (The applause gets louder). It is the “biggy” and the actual VFX shot most people will notice, but I think I will have it done by tomorrow evening! (The crowd goes wild).

BUT, (gasps followed by sudden silence), it doesn’t mean the film will be complete. As I’m finishing off this last shot, Chris Reading is doing the sound design, and the music is still being put together by Vince Pope. Once all of that is finished, Howard Berry (editor) will put all of that together, and then the two of us (which would probably end up being more like me sitting next to him while he does it) will colour grade the thing and put the last finishing touches to it.

All in all, I expect two more weeks until Shattered Pieces is complete. Then, all that’s left is sending it away to festivals and waiting. Oh, I may also have a sort of wrap-party/screening for cast, crew, family and friends, but my first concern is getting this thing finished! It’s taken long enough.

Oh, and for those wondering why I haven’t posted any VFX work-in-progress images/videos; The simple reason is: I don’t want to spoil anything for you or give you false ideas about what the film. Plus, the VFX in this is quite basic and mainly invisible things like TV and background replacements. The focus is on the story between these characters.

Hopefully the next time I’ll blog it will be telling you Shattered Pieces has been completed. Ah, so close!

It’s been a while since my last blog update. I’m sorry to all those that visit regularly (I can see the blog stats). I’m back now and here’s an update.

First of all, Howard Berry has finished the edit for the film. He’s just doing a few tweaks here and there and doing some motion graphics for it now.

I’ve given this edit to Vince Pope, who will hopefully be doing the music and sound for this.

Once Howard has finished preparing the shots needed to do visual effects with, he’ll send it over to Chris Andrews and me to do our CG magic on.

It’s going to be tight, in regards to meeting film festival deadlines. The good thing is, there’s lots of festivals througout the year so it shouldn’t be a problem.

I’ve also registered a website for the film. It’s currently just a sort of holder page, but it should soon have images, trailer, screening info and other promo stuff.
Check it out at ShatteredPieces.com