| - September 22, 2004 to Present: The final cut of The
College Murders is done! We chopped it down from approximately
2 hours and 40 minutes to a running time of 1 hour and 58 minutes.
We are extremely happy with how the movie came out and are very
optimistic that this low-budget indie that everyone put so much
time and effort into will do well! I want to thank everyone
involved in this movie, you have helped create something of
which we can all be proud. The College Murders is now being
submitted to film festivals worldwide.
- June 26, 2004 to September 21, 2004: The rough cut
is now complete and we are hard at work on the final cut.
We will be adding music, shooting and adding a few needed
pick-up shots, doing voice-overs, adding effects (like sound
fx, dissolves and fades), fixing and evening out all sounds,
adding titles and credits, and adding, cutting and changing
scenes for pacing. The movie will be done no later than September
24, 2004.
- November 2003 to June 25, 2004: Actual editing...putting
the pieces of the puzzle together. I edited together many
variations of the movie, and collaborated with Darren DeBari
scene by scene, while also getting valuable input from Scott
DiPalo and Ian Keeney.
- September 2003 to October 2003: The tedious task
of inputting thousands of timecodes, the names of each take,
and then importing the chosen clips into the computer is undertaken
and completed.
- August 2003: Pick-up shots began on yet another
exotic location for the movie - Kenya, Africa. Several scenes
were shot for "The College Murders" while also volunteering
there to help the Black Rhino in a conservation area.
- May 2003 to July 2003: Darren and I meticulously
comb through all 40 tapes and mark down timecodes, name scenes
and choose which takes are to be imported for editing. I also
built a new computer powerful enough to handle all the footage
and the editing software.
- March 2003 to April 2003: Enrolled in and passed
an Avid editing class at Brookdale College. We also recorded
various pick-up shots and sound effects necessary for the
movie.
- November 4, 2002 to February 2003: Research and
getting prices on obtaining synchronization rights to certain
music for the movie, gathering film festival information and
applications to festivals worldwide, and learning how to use
Avid editing software.
- November 3, 2002: Principal photography for "The
College Murders" is completed!
- June 3, 2002: We begin the editing process with
the first editing software. Later we made the tough decision
to start over and edit with better software that had more
features we were going to need.
- April 30, 2002: United States principal photography
begins.
- February 25, 2002: Principal photography begins
in the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific.
- January 21, 2002: The final draft of the screenplay
is completed, registered with the Writer's Guild and submitted
for copyright.
- September 27, 2001: Pre-production (including purchasing
of equipment, casting, location scouting, and planning) begins
for "The College Murders"
- April 22, 2000: On a side note, Darren, creative
genius that he is, already writes the first draft of "The
Final Murders", the end of the series. He was on a roll
and wrote at least a dozen completely different screenplays
this year.
- April 17, 2000: The very first draft of the screenplay
is completed by Darren and we read it together. For the next
year and 9 months the screenplay is typed up, written and
re-written again and again, together with two other screenplays
we were working on and submitting to screenplay contests.
- April 13, 2000: The idea for a prequel to the screenplay
Darren DeBari and I (Greg Wilson) wrote in 1998 ("The
Video Store Murders") is born…it is called "The
College Murders".
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