Bloggin' On: Adventures in Screenwriting - "Sorry, We're Experiencing Technical Difficulties...."

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Illustration by Mohamed Hasan via Pixabay
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's Law

 Well, Dear Reader, I had high hopes this morning about the release - on YouTube - of Ronnie and the Pursuit of the Elusive Bliss. My partner-in-crime, actor-director Juan Carlos Hernandez, texted me late yesterday afternoon to let me know that he thought he would be uploading our short movie this morning. He even sent me two screen captures of the "Special Thanks" cards at the end of the credits sequence; "I have done all I can with this project," he said.


Image Credit: Radio Maria Ireland



As it turned out, during the process of creating the DVD, Juan noticed a digital artifact on one of the last shots. A digital artifact, per Wikipedia, " is any undesired or unintended alteration in data introduced in a digital process by an involved technique and/or technology." A good example of a digital artifact, in this context, is an unintended lens flare that mars the intended scene or shot. Juan says it's just "a wavy corner in the penultimate shot," but it is not something he wants in the finished film, and he is working hard to get rid of it.

He also expressed some concern about our point-of-view protagonist, Ronnie. "One thing I hoped to preserve," Juan said, "was the objectivity in Ronnie's character, thus avoiding the polarization of various viewers." He added. "This was something you insisted on early."

Obviously, a digital artifact is a solvable problem, and Juan and Adria are working hard to remove it. Hopefully, they will have good news for me later, and Ronnie and the Pursuit of the Elusive Bliss will be viewable on YouTube soon.

Source: Wikipedia, Digital artifact

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