Music?!

This week has been busy…and rough. On Sunday my composer that I’ve worked with on a few other projects resigned from the position. His schedule is just too crazy. It’s partly my fault for not keeping up with him on where we were with the movie, and also just unfortunate timing. He’s not only trying to finish school but also he’s working on planning his wedding which is in two months. So I’ve got to find a new composer to have the movie done by the time I’m done with school. Tom is going to help me find a new one cause he works with music student orgs and such. It’s on my list of things to do this week. Tom said that he thinks the movie would benefit from copywritten music like blink 183 or SR-71 so I’ll look into that avenue as well. The idea of copywritten material scares me because I have no money to pay for rights.

Grady and I did some testing last week in the ADR booths. There are two at the facility and we wanted to see which one was the best so we can schedule the right one. We had some technical difficulties but we figured out which one we’ll use. Now, tomorrow I have to go and book the space. I thought that we could only use it between 8-5 but I guess that’s changed to between 8-6 which is for the best anyway. It just frustrates me that I didn’t know that before I emailed my actors about scheduling. I got a hold of just about everybody so I’ll be locking everything in tomorrow and making lots of phone calls.

Me and Grady have still yet to finish our note taking on the movie. We’re about 26 minutes into the 85. We just couldn’t find the time to sit down for a substantial amount of time. And when I say substantial, I mean like 8 hours. We pretty much have to have it done by the beginning of this week so I can get all the lines in order for the actors. Also, we can’t do any sound effect and room tone gathering until we know exactly what we need.

Seeing as we’re not ready to do recording, and I had thought we were going to be by tomorrow, we’re still going to take the equipment I have reserved and do some tests tomorrow or Tuesday. I’ll re check out the equipment when we are ready.

I met with Johnny, my cartoonist, and he’s really excited, which makes me feel great. We had a little trouble with transferring some reference pictures from me to him but hopefully I resolved that today. We should have a poster by the end of two weeks.

I’m still working on the news sequence. We’re shooting Kate’s scene this Thursday and I get the equipment on Thursday and return it Friday. It took me longer than I thought to do this news sequence but so far I think it looks awesome. I tested what I’ve done so far with my HD TV at home and it looks great. I think I’ve got another 3 or 4 hours left of work to do on it. Tuesday I’m going to be prepping for the shoot, buying everything I need, like the posters, markers, and stuff.