Oops.

[wednes]

I didn't post over the weekend because I wanted my next blog entry to be the unveiling of my flashy new book trailer. But I'm still not done. The rough cut only took 2 days even with the rough audio. But now it's getting super difficult and fussy. Even though this isn't costing me anything but time, I want it to be--well, not perfect but the best I can do. As I was telling uterdic, movie making is not my sphere of expertise. I do have a degree in broadcasting, but none of the stuff we use now for video production had been invented yet when I was learning.

Anyway, it's not ready to show yet. Soon...
I was hoping to finish it tonight after Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with H. But I got hit up with some surprise work that's due tomorrow. So who knows if I'll have time to get anything done with the trailer.
It's coming along nicely though. Run time: 2 minutes.

The best thing? It features my protege rather prominently.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

So, what did you think of the movie? R&I had some serious problems with it.

[wednes]

Well, it's certainly not high cinema, and is even less historically accurate than the book. But I found it fun, entertaining, with some really cool visuals.

[groovesinorbit]

It had some fun moments and looked cool, I'll give it that. The making-silver-weapons-all-in-one-night thing really threw me out of the story, though. As did my realizing that Lincoln conveniently forgot he could use silver to kill vampires until 3 years into the war. If he'd remembered, the war would have been over at Bull Run, but then, the movie would have only been an hour.

[wednes]

That's a departure from the book. I actually dug the book much more than I thought I would.

[groovesinorbit]

Good to know. Worth reading, even if the movie made me cranky?

[wednes]

I thought so.

[groovesinorbit]

I might check it out, although another friend just reminded me that silver doesn't even kill vampires, so I'm even more miffed with the movie than I was.

[wednes]

That depends on who you ask. What the film/book say about Judas is accurate according to olde Europe and much of the Ukraine. Silver tipped stakes were common weapons for vampires and werewolves both.

[groovesinorbit]

Huh. I'd heard about steel and iron needles in eastern Europe, but not silver as a weapon against vampires. Thought that was more of a were thing.