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“Captivated” is up! The Improv Movie finally has a name!

July 3, 2009 at 1:20 pm | Posted in Keith Boynton | 9 Comments
Tags: dubbed movies, exhaustion, film premiere, filmmaking, Final Cut Pro, improvisation, unveiling

Update: the “weird splotches of color” (see below) are gone!  All it took was removing the color-correction from the affected clips.  Anyone have any idea why this might have happened?  Besides that the universe hates me, I mean.

At last!  Our much-trumpeted improvised film is online and awaiting your kind indulgence.  This has been one of the most draining weeks of my life — and now I have something to show for it! Please please please enjoy.

Also available on YouTube: Part 1. Part 2

It’s hard for me to disassociate this movie from the comprehensively nightmarish post-production experience that I’ve been plowing through all week.  Everything that could go wrong, did, and some things that couldn’t did anyway.  On the plus side, I did get the chance to witness some real heroism; DP Giuseppe Pugliese and sound man Kevin Adams put in hours and hours of their time to help me get the movie done — and they did it out of sheer kindness and professional pride.  Good people make bad situations far more bearable, and I’m lucky enough to be surrounded by them.  Let’s not forget Mike Lavoie, who made me gallons of tea and tended to my precarious sanity.  If I’m a mensch, Mike is das Übermensch. But not in a “crush you under his heel” kind of way.

I don’t know what to make of this movie we’ve made.  It’s very strange, in any number of ways.  Despite my best efforts, it still has some technical flaws (including a brand-new one: those weird splotches of bright color — mostly blue — tarnishing the image).  The most surreal part of this whole process was going through the movie, line by line, and painstakingly recreating dialogue that had been made up on the spot a few days before.  It’s probably one of the most perverse endeavors I’ve ever been a part of, but it was necessary.  At least I think it was.  But then, I sort of have to think that.

I’m rambling.  Forgive me.  I’m going to bed.  Enjoy the film.

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