Every now and then I like to throw out an update on the film, mainly so people who worked on it will know where it is and if it is going to eventually condense into a solid mass.
Well, I keep tinkering on it. Below is a screenshot of my progress spreadsheet, I know, I'm a romantic. So the black boxes are what has been done. The RED boxes are steps that get pretty complex and usually sprout new boxes within them. These individual steps can be total rabbit holes that I fall down and end up spending several days on. Some of them get so deep, that when I finish one I will walk away from the project for a while just so I don't go nuts. You can only ignore life so long, otherwise, you won't still have one when you come back up for air.
So the last red box was this need I had to see a monkey vomit blood, and instead of the blood just disappearing in the air, I wanted to see it splat on the floor. This monkey is vomiting a lot and is making a series of splats. It took longer than I had planned. Also, as all the stories build to a climax, the scenes need more and more action and effects and schmutz, so all that has to be figured out and fidgeted with. Lots of fidgeting and tinkering with this coo-coo clock.
The YELLOW boxes, take some artistic effort and tinker time, but nothing like the RED. The GREEN are "click here, stupid" and just take time to render and click. They are the administrative boxes that take no effort but can be time-consuming when Premiere decides it wants you to reassociate all your files for no reason.
So below, I present, my spreadsheet! When I need to motivate myself I open it up and count the colored boxes and steady my nerves for the next dive. 341 total steps to go, and then we will have the complete 8 episodes. Five are online already. I started this in 2009 and I hope to be done next year so I can say "10 Years in the Making!"
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