The slippery slope

I'm cutting together some old footage captured through my unreliable camera while waiting for my deck to come back from the shop. The footage is from a 2004 effort that I aborted about a third of the way through. Just for the sake of posterity, I'm cutting together a few scenes for myself and the other actor involved; that, and to strengthen my grasp on Final Cut.

I'm satisfied with the images I get with my Canon GL2 mini DV cam. But seeing how this is a Brave New Digital World, I decided to mess with some filters and see if I could find something unobtrusive that would make the visuals a little cooler and, thus, mask the potential discovery made by the viewer that the film is not very good.

Regardless, the results:


Old War filter test from Jack Kentala on Vimeo.

Now that I can see what simple, elegant stuff I can do, I'm getting worried that I'll want to overdo it on Transmissions. I could see myself finishing the picture cut and sound design, and then spending far too long doing a final color/contrast past. I just have to decide how long I want to ride this slippery slope.