A Week of Scheduling to Come

I watched our picture lock with the professor that has been overseeing the production, Switzer. Miguel has sort of stepped down on the project for a few reasons but mainly now I report to someone else. Miguel will help still if I ask something specific of him but I no longer report to him directly. Anyway, we watched the picture and he had a lot of praise for me and the other people involved in the project. We’ve got a good little movie here and I’m getting more and more anxious to finish it up. We actually made a few changes to the movie because we hadn’t specifically started working on sound. So now we really have a picture lock. 85 minutes, 2 seconds, and 17 frames , :) (with out the credits of course.)

Dan, the movie’s cinematographer, is going to be doing all the color correction as well as adjusting the framing. We shot in 3x4 and are putting 16x9 mattes on it so that we had the option of adjusting the framing. Dan’s going through the tutorial right now for color correction.

We met with the guy that’s in charge of the ADR facilities. This is going to work out beautifully. I’m a little concerned because I have to schedule all my ADR between 8-5 Monday through Friday. Like I said, I’m only a little concerned. I’m spending this week picking dates and emailing and calling cast members to start setting things up. One thing I also have to do for ADR is write some new dialog for some scenes that needed to change a bit. I’ll do that this week sometime.

I met with Tom, my composer on Friday. He’s a little concerned about getting things done in time in relation to what kind of music we use. He had talked about how if I want Anything of Orchestral genre it would take longer than the semester to write and record and mix. So we’re going to try to get the best out of the time and money that we have. One area we talked about was the Halloween mask scenes and he knew exactly what I was looking for. In short we both excited to get started. He’s got a copy of the picture lock and is watching it and we’re meeting Wednesday to start a full out spotting session (establishing and identifying musical ques.). We think it will take about three and a half hours so we’re going to try to do it all Wednesday but we might need to break it up into another session.

As for my afore mentioned marketing blitz in the previous post, I met with a web designer and the editor of the new trailer. Right now I’m setting up a project file for the editor and getting everything organized so that he can work efficiently with the 450 gigs of files that are associated with the movie. We’re meeting Tuesday night to go over the project file and also to establish dates for goals. The web designer and I went over a few options for the website. She’s not designing but more as acting for an adviser to me. We decided on a simple sleek design but I can’t move forward on it till I get the new one sheet for the movie. In that area I’m having a lot of trouble. I can’t seem to get a hold of a cartoonist to do the project for me. The school of art was very unhelpful. I had talked to a few people about it that were interested but they decided they didn’t have enough time to do a good job. Better in the long run I guess. So this week I’m also trying to figure out how to reach the art students better.

This week I’m also working on scheduling the last shooting we need to do with Kate with the news stuff in the background. I gave up on finding a graphic designer to help me with the news graphics so I’m doing it myself. I went to the journalism school to see if I could get some help but they said just to find an artist to do it. So I guess I’m doing it myself. So far it’s working pretty good and I’m pleased. Besides it supposed to be news produced by students and since I don’t know what I’m doing I figure I’ll get the look I’m going for right? :)

I also need to schedule times to go out and record room tones and some sound effects. I’ll do that this week.