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I re-edited my first short film The Game in colour and posted some updates. You can read them here. I also fixed a few editing errors in The Silent Dagger (my 2nd short film) and re-uploaded it.
From April to November 2024
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Nov 1st
I created an AI generated voice-over for a The Game Trailer. I never made it in the end but you can listen to the voice-over here, it’s pretty realistic:
the game – trailer voice-over
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31st Oct
I’ve fixed some minor editing errors on this film and re-uploaded it.
* A Bad Tree Production longer to cover movement in background (opening shot)
* Sharpened opening shot of Nick and James (opening scene)
* Better reaction shot of James looking at board (opening scene)
* Removed glitch of James freeze frame (opening scene)
* Better slow to fast speed up edit of Nick escaping (dead body scene)
* Dialogue “Put the knife down” timed better (arrest scene)
* 2 shots with better colour contrast (arrest scene)
* End credits re-timed to fit better
* A Bad Tree Production End logo
This is the best quality version in 1080p HD, the same version is up on Rumble. The one’s on Brighteon and Bitchute are smaller file sizes.
The Silent Dagger (HD)
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7th July
This is the new re-edit of The Game in colour, it’s 4 minutes longer than the original.
It’s on Rumble with maximum pic quality (full file size at 2.34GB) which is the one below, Youtube is max quality but copywrited and it’s also up on Brighteon at max quality pic. The one on Bitchute has a slightly smaller file size (2GB is maximum limit) but is good quality.
The full blog post for The Game (re-edit) is up in Archives with info on the film plus Poster, Teaser and Storyboards.
The Game (2024)
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26th June
The Game is complete
I’ve finished it. That took me about 2 months but felt like a lot longer and I’m exhausted. Now I’m going to do a trailer for it, but first a toast… To The Game and a job well done, cheers.
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25th June
I’ve finished re-editing The Game minus a few tweaks (sound, etc) and I’ve made a better poster for it with some Masonic imagery. This fits well with the theme of deception in the film which also features a rather suspicious handshake at the end, which was unintended at the time.
Next I’m making the Trailer using an AI generated voiceover like a proper Hollywood trailer. Hopefully it won’t take me that long to do, then I’ll upload the Trailer followed by the film with a new blog post.
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17th June
The Game is afoot!
My re-edit’s nearly done. I’ve finished the sound and done some artwork for the post but haven’t done a Trailer, I’m not sure whether to do one yet, or how to do it.
I still have to do picture quality, brightness, trimming borders and some other fine tuning plus volume levels for the music, dialogue and effects.
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10th June
I’m still editing The Game, it’s not far off completion. I’ve more or less done the editing on the footage but still have quite a bit of sound editing to do. It’s about 3 or 4 minutes longer than the original with an extended opening scene, a new suspense sequence and some other new shots and dialogue to make it as complete as possible.
I only had the editing suite for a couple of days when I edited it so the re-edited version is a vast improvement on the original and in colour.
My films were shot quickly with a hand held camera and I didn’t shoot enough reaction shots or shots of the characters speaking their dialogue into the camera, the dialogue is off camera a lot which I had to find a way around, hence some dubbing in places.
This was my first effort at film-making and the guys had never acted before so the dialogue and plot are pretty simple but as non-actors they play it straight which kind of works with the plot and the basic plot twist.
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26th May
I’ve made a Teaser for The Game featuring a newly created suspense sequence. Miles Davis is still copywrited on Youtube so that’s a no go, but judging from the feedback elsewhere my re-edit won’t be getting any views, something I’m used to by now as all my music and films are shadow banned. But nonetheless, I’m very proud of my work.
The Game (2024) – Short Film Teaser
As for the re-edit I’ve completed the chase sequence and I’m working on the end scene then I need to do most of the sound, picture quality and some other stuff before it’s complete then I’ll probably do a full Trailer for it.
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18th May
I’ve Archived the last 3 music videos I made, they were Always Get By, Ain’t Even Begun and Dream On. Always Get by has had bass, drums, piano and strings added which took me 2 months to complete. Also, there’s new mixes of Ain’t Even Begun and The Things I Say with the tape glitches removed and the latter has had piano and a church bell added to fill it out. I’ll finish the video for it when I’ve finished my re-edit of The Game and do some more videos for the remaining songs.
See Archives
The Rivers Music Videos Part 2
I’ve completed the first 4 and a half minutes of The Game and posted the first 2.20 mins on Twitter (see bottom of page, I can’t post it on here), I’m now onto the chase sequence through the creepy house where I have to make some people walking around look exiting before the film reaches the climax.
There’s not that much more extra footage I can use, it was all just for the opening scene which I’ve re-worked and expanded. There’s a few other good shots I can use but the rest of the film won’t be much different than before but will be in colour with sound and picture quality improved.
Anyway, it’ll take me a while to complete.
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14th May
I’m doing a full re-edit of my short film The Game in Colour after realizing I can make it much better than the original. There was more footage than I realized especially of the opening scene which I’ve just completed editing. I’ve reworked it with tighter editing, pacing and more dialogue to build the story better. I’ve also done a more concise opening credits sequence which takes the viewer inside the house. It’s going to be much longer than the original film.
I’ll be using the same soundtrack even though the Miles Davis tracks will be copywrited. The songs give the film it’s atmosphere. I’m also using the same gun sound effects from Taxi Driver, so it will feel the same as the original film.
This is going to take me a while to complete but I’m pretty pleased with it so far and I might do a trailer for it when it’s closer to completion.
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6th May
I’m remastering my first short film The Game with best quality sound and picture. The one I uploaded is straight from the video tape so I can get it looking and sounding much better like the other 2 films.
I won’t be re-editing it as I like the original edit but I’ll do a colour version too. It’s meant to be black and white like a film noir with the shadows etc. but will be interested to see what it looks like in colour.
I’ve started looking through the rushes and hope all the shots I used are there, there was a few shots missing from The Silent Dagger rushes but I managed to get around it. The Miles Davis songs got copywrited but I’ll use them again anyway, my work is practically banned anyway so who cares.
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9th Apr
I burnt myself out doing the mixes and music videos and took a break from it. I’ll get back into it and do some more as I’ve done half of them. I’ve got the films in mind for the remaining songs and got about half way through The Things I Say video. I want to finish that one so I can do another post with the next 4 videos and archive it.
I also want to remaster The Game at some point, my first short film. I’m happy with the original edit of it so I won’t be altering it in any way but would like to get a better picture and sound quality on it.
Since taking a break I’ve been doing research and joined Twitter where I’m masquerading as a hedgehog called Piglets! You can see my Twitter feed at the bottom of the page.
I’ve also joined Bitchute where I’ve uploaded my Music Videos.
I’m currently messing around with my blog a bit, I think I’ll put images of my own work up as headers on the main pages and remove the Army Of Shadows theme I was using.
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