Steady but Slower than I Wanted.

Things seem to be moving along nicely, but at a slower pace than I wanted.

Dan is in Korea for some Friend’s wedding so nothing is being done on the color correcting side of things.

I emailed the cast about specific dates for ADR and over half emailed me back. There are still a few I haven’t’ hear from and that makes me nervous. I’ll be making phone calls this afternoon to try and get a hold of those people. The cast that I did hear from seems enthusiastic to finish the project, which is great. I have a lot of control over the scheduling and can pretty much do the ADR anytime I want over the next few weeks but I gave the cast specific dates and times to choose from just so things can be more streamlined and strait forward. It would be a scheduling night mare to approach each individual member of the cast with “so when’s good for you?”.

Tom canceled on my twice this week for the spotting session. We’ve scheduled to do it today at 8pm cause our schedules don’t match up at all next week.

I met with the editor of the trailer and we went over the file I created for him. We also set goals for the next four weeks in terms of when we want to have a rough cut, fine cut, picture lock, etc. According to our timeline we should have a trailer by the end of spring break (mid march).

I can’t start work on the website till I have the poster.

I made a flyer for a Cartoonist Needed add and put it up in the art building on every bulletin board I could find. I also posted an add on Craig’s List and Facebook. I got almost 20 responses. So now I have a cartoonist. He’s a kid that I’ve worked with before but on Disks, and he was an actor. But in the last three years he’s been studying graphic design and he sent me some of his portfolio stuff. I’m excited to see some drafts. I’m in the process of setting up a meeting with him this week to show him what I have in mind and give him some reference files.

I scheduled the shooting date for the opening credits scene with Kate for the 21st of February. I’m excited to get this in the can as it’s been a long time coming. I’m going to try and finish the new sequence today so that I wont have to worry about it next week.

I scheduled some recording equipment with the school of the 18th and 19th and plan to do room tone and Sound Effects gathering with Grady. Should be fun.

I spent a good few hours creating the project files in soundtrack pro. One for each chapter. We have the tracks broken down into In Camera, ADR, Effects, Music, and Room Tones. Each section has a few tracks as well, for example there are 2 effects tracts and 4 ADR tracks. We’re using this setup as just a base. If we need to add more tracks we will. Once I had the project files all set up, Grady (my sound designer/technician/artist/whatever) and I had a hard time figuring out just where to start working on this project. He started to go through the chapters, just playing with different files and settings, trying to learn the program. A few months ago, sometime before Christmas, we sat down and watched what we thought was a close picture lock and wrote down all the sound that needed to be replaced, and what sound was good enough to keep. Well Grady was playing around with some of the files that we know we want to replace and he made it sound beautiful! So that threw a wrench in our approach. Where do we start? We don’t want to waste time recording things that we’re not going to need, and we don’t’ want to waste time fixing or trying to fix something that we’re just going to rerecord. So we decided to do a more thorough walk through if you will of the entire film. A sort of stop and play session of what’s good, what’s, not, what’s saveable, what’s not, what needs to be rerecorded, etc. sort of the same thing we did before xmas but much more involved. We started last Thursday and did it for an hour and only got 6 minutes into the movie. We’ll see how it goes. I emailed him today to try and lock down a specific schedule through out the week of when we work on the movie to make things more efficient.

So as you can see, moving along, just a little slower than I wanted.