The SCADemys is an annual award show hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design. All senior thesis films from the past year (usually around 120 in total) are judged on categories similar to any other film awards show: Best Screenplay, Best Director, etc…

Extraction has been nominated for the following:
Best Narrative - Robert Greene
Best Director - Robert Greene
Best Editor - Dustin Parsons
Best Cinematographer - Joesph Volpe
Best Production Design - Robert Greene
Best Special Effects - Robert Greene

Last night was the screening for the nominees. In total, there was over 5 hours of back to back movies. I was there for about 3 hours and I saw a lot of good short films, so we’re in for some competition.

I was also nominated for Best Editing for Reflection, a short film I collaborated on with our friends at Escape Entertainment.

Tonight we find out who the winners are. Keep your fingers crossed!

So the other day Nick, Robb, and I recorded the footsteps for every character, for the entire film. This took a while but we did it all in one setting.

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Nick, watching us as we watch the monitor and try to hit our marks.

“The difference between an American film and a European film is that a European film can open with a shot of clouds, cut to another shot of clouds, and then cut to a third shot of clouds. If an American films opens with a shot of clouds, it must cut to an airplane, and if by the third shot the airplane hasn’t exploded the audience is bored.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

So Extraction is coming along swimmingly. We’re being good film makers and sticking to our schedule. Setting up a Google Calendars account for our Post team and hosting weekly meetings definitely helps. Of course, Robb (our director) is furiously running between departments, making sure everyone’s working slave labor hours and not playing GTA4. He struggles somewhat when trying to express what he’s looking for in Color Correction but I let it slide on the account that he’s color blind.

Yesterday Robb and I paid a visit to Nick Kneece, the Zen master of Sound Design. I helped out with some Folley and walla ADR, doing my best impersonation of some dead-ish people. Zach Slocum, one of our actors, was also there recording some lines.

Every thing’s coming together, I can’t wait to show off of the finished product. I’ll put up some screen shots or something soon. Words don’t do this film justice.