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The Smithylad/Crawfish
Stardust Weblog
03-Sep-2006
Jalopies
I'd been meaning to write-up my handwritten material that finishes off the first draft of Jalopies, and that's what I did this weekend.
Similarly, I wrote up my notes for Mr Pritani, my corrections for Wizki Fights For His Mother's Love, and much text
for the Legendary Hard Man. I'd be continuing in this vein if my wife wasn't hogging the computer.
Bad wife!
All ths stuff was written on my knee on the train or on the tube, or in fact on the Eurostar. It's a good way of squeezing in as much as possible while I'm travelling around, when I'd only be reading, daydreaming or, heaven forbid, working. The downside is I loathe writing it all up afterward, which is why it gets left for week on end. I don't take the chance to edit while I'm writing up the notes as a) it would take longer and I want to get it over and done with as quick as possible and b) I think it's too hard to understand the feel of a passage when I'm concentrating on my typing, so I'm not equipped at that juncture to make changes. Which is a shame when I'm spending all that time pouring over it.
Other things I've been working on over the last couple of days:
A version of A Quick Word rendered in LiveType, the titling software that came with Final Cut Express. I'm going to use a different type face and effect for every stanza, (all the while aware that it could get tedious if I'm not careful) with the poem read in voice-over over the top.
Editing down some footage of my wife's family as practice at Final Cut Express for when I film a script. The take-aways I will take away from this exercise are you're not going to get good images unless the people you're pointing the camera at want to be included. And its so much easier to start editing if you have the footage marked with what you've filmed. But the wide-angle lens I bought for just this purpose is glorious. and I need to be careful what I shoot if I don't have my tripod with me.
I also put up a couple of pictures that my friend and artist Lyndon Hayes, which we are very proud to own.
I'm also going to be doing a bit of music on Tuesday with my pal Dave. We're going to be doing Drift Away, How Can You Do This To Me, Bowing Down To Temptation and Till The Fighting's Done.
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