So at last, as we arrive at the one year mark of this project, we hit perfect stride. Quick meetings, phone calls, emails… all of which amount to significant forward progress on the movie. Everybody has a feel for what they’re doing, and they know how to do it! This is my favorite phase of filmmaking; when people fall into sync. We hit it about the third day of shooting back in May. We hit it again when the edit was coming together in August. And now we’re there with visual fx and sound design.

It’s hard to believe it has been a year since I wrote the script for FORGE. People always say, “It’s hard to believe (insert unbelievable amount of time here),” but so much has happened in the past year that it is truly hard to believe. When I look back and make lists of the things that have happened since I wrote this script, it’s pretty amazing that the movie hasn’t fallen apart. Every movie hits that point where everyone involved wonders if it will collapse or continue (usually multiple times). I’ll have to survey the crew and see if there were any of those moments they identified in production, but there were more than a few in post. Here’s just a few…
sketchy early viz fx tests,
teaching overload,
relationship changes,
people start to help then get too busy,
people start to help and it creates more work,
hardware problems,
cat almost dies,
visual fx breakthrough makes all finished shots look like crap…

Just to name a few.

But after all that, the movie prevails. We should be done in a week or so! Thanks for tuning in.