Finally! You can now watch “The Barrier” on-line. I wanted to fix more problems, but then remembered what Leonardo da Vinci said: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” Not that I claim my movie is Art, but it is time to let people see it. You can watch it on YouTube or on my website:… Read Article →
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I remember when I moved from my apartment to my house I went back to the apartment for one last visit to see if I’d left anything. I ended up going back about a half dozen times! Each time I found something I’d forgotten. My experience with “The Barrier” feels almost the same. Every time… Read Article →
I had hoped to have “The Barrier” done and posted this week, but I’m not quite ready yet. I watched the version 0.4 video. I saw a lot of things I would like to change, but I would have to remake the movie from scratch to fix them. I thought about my goals for this… Read Article →
Work on “The Barrier” this week went faster than I expected, but I’m still not done version 0.4 yet. It shouldn’t take very long to get it done. I’ll watch it, and if there is nothing I want to change, I will post it to YouTube. Re-Editing “The Barrier” The way I have structured my… Read Article →
I reviewed version 0.3 of “The Barrier” this week and have now started to work on version 0.4. I watched version 0.3 of “The Barrier” twice this week. The first time to get a sense of how it looked. The second time I made notes about changes I want to make for version 0.4. I… Read Article →
I finished version 0.3 of “The Barrier” this week. It came in at 85 minutes, just a little shorter than version 0.2. I trimmed a few scenes and added more sound effects. After I review this version and create version 0.4, I think I’ll be ready to post the movie on YouTube to get some… Read Article →
I made some good progress on “The Barrier” this week. Mostly I added sound effects to the sound track. I’ve added ambient sound to about half the movie now. I added some specific sounds, such as foot steps. That isn’t easy to do, but fortunately most of sets look like they have carpet, so I… Read Article →
Last Sunday after I posted to my blog, my wife and I watched “The Barrier”. She said she liked it, but thought it was a little slow in places. She said that the main character reminded her of me. Most of the characters are based on me. I took that as the sign to go… Read Article →
I got version 0.2 of “The Barrier” done this week. This version runs 87 minutes. That was about a minute longer that the previous version. I cleaned up some more video glitches and added some sound effects. The full version of the movie took a long time to out put, and I had to leave… Read Article →
Work on “The Barrier” went fairly smoothly this week. I finished adding the computer screens to the scenes that needed them. That took much of the time. I had to go back and create some more screen images. There were a bunch of other scenes where I fixed some video glitches. I’m not sure what… Read Article →
