Picture:
Effects
Nothing New
Color
nothing new.
Credits
I started working on the credits last night. I'm going to do them in photoshop and then import them as an image file and then apply motion to the image making it crawl from bottom up. the title cards will all be done in photoshop as well. I'm going to just use Word to write them out and then copy and past into a photoshop file. I'll deal with fonts and color and stuff later. for now i'll just make the base file, then manipulate later.
Picture Misc
I finally let Dan watch the movie. He hated it. He said it was an embarrassment to him in terms of cinematography. I think that's a little extreme but i do think he had his hopes up way too high. He'll come round i think. Somethings he'll never get over i know, like the fact that some shots are not 100% in focus and stuff like that. Oh well. Not everyone will like the movie.
Sound
Effects
I scheduled to do the rest of the effects Tuesday.
Room Tones
Same as above
ADR
Saturday I went to the lab to get some work done and then was going to go and do ADR with Jacob. He was the only one i had scheduled as Ali and Jamie didn't come this past weekend. On Saturday at about 12:45 i realized i never sent instructions to Jacob an where to go. He was scheduled for 1pm. So i emailed him and went to my phone to call him and realized i didn't have his number. So Grady and I waited for two hours outside the facility on the off chance he might check his email and come running over. he didn't. later that night i got an email from him saying he was waiting at the film studio across campus for about the same amount of time. Oh well. We'll just have to reschedule. My bad.
I got an email from John Schile today asking about ADR and saying that he would make himself available. It's nice to get emails like that every once in a while. Fortunately i don't need him, which is one less thing i have to do, but it's no secret that i would like that attitude from everyone else.
Mixing
Saturday i meant to start mixing at 11:30 but didn't get started till 6pm cause that's when jon was supposed to leave. See Misc in General. Well, he was supposed to leave so i could do mixing but then he and his producer decided they had to burn a couple of dvd's which took a few hours so Grady and I decided to try some mixing in another program. actually the original program i wanted to use, sound track. So we imported the movie as one big file, which was on the hard drive, and then just synced the ADR to it. Grady hadn't had any sleep and got frustrated and burnt out and went home early. I stayed and worked for 5 hours and then Sunday went to the lab and did the same thing and finished Alicia and Ben in terms of syncing their ADR. Molly had to pick me up at 6pm so at 4:30 when i finished syncing Ben i figured I'd play around with exporting the sync. The idea was that we sync all of one Actor's adr lines into one time line, then mute the original sound of the film and export. The desired effect would be an audio track that's the length of the movie with the only sound being the ADR of that Actor. If we start the audio track at the start of the movie all the lines will be in sync. Well, that's the desired effect. It's not what's happening. I don't know the software that well but I have no idea what's going wrong when I export. I spent an hour and half yesterday trying to figure it out. When i export some of the tracks are missing in the final ADR file and there are some lines that i deleted from the time line. So I'm frustrated because if i can't get this to work I'm going to loose the 8 hours of work i did figuring out this program and syncing these two actors. I'm going to the lab tonight and working till 11pm so i'll try and figure it out then.
Music
Danielle Emailed me. She talked to a leasing company for Music rights and It's going to cost a little under $2000 per song for their services. I told her to call them back and ask how much for all out rights :) just curious. She needs to talk to the record labels or artists directly. She should get back to me with more info later this week.
Misc Sound
Nothing New
Marketing
Website
So those of you who read this production diary will note that there is no website up and it is Monday the 31st of March. The website is set up and ready to go, save for a few details like font color and stuff but i'm waiting on Johnny's artwork before i lock in those details. Grady and I spent the 2 hours waiting for Jacob on Saturday going over how some website code works. He was getting a little frustrated cause he couldn't' remember how he had done it a long time ago. It turns out that Grady built a web based game that uses the same effects i wanted the website to do. Well, he sent me the final code yesterday and I was able to build the website fine. There are still some pages that aren't done but, like i said before, i'm going to publish the site in small pieces to try and build excitement for the movie. The first day it goes up it'll just be the home page. Then the synopsis, then the cast, etc. each day i'll put something new on. But i need Johnny's artwork as it's the foundation of the site.
Trailer
So drew came into the lab Sunday when i was working on doing sync stuff. He showed me what he had, which wasn't much, and he said he was having a really hard time figuring out exactly what to do. While talking to him i had a bit of an epiphany. I should have done this way back when i first had him agree to do it. I told him i would send him various versions of the trailer guy scripts for him to edit to. The trailer guy is that ominous voice that's like "in a world....torn by change....blahblahblah." So i had the epiphany that if he had a few varieties of scripts like that it would give him a back bone to edit to. a through line if you will. I meant to send him that stuff last night but i just got to busy with other stuff so i'll do it after i finish this post.
Posters
There was typo in the previous post under this subtitle stating it was Tuesday. it was actually Thursday. So today is Monday and as of yesterday at 5 i had not received any more drafts from Johnny. He worked a double shift on Saturday so it makes sense that he didn't get anything done that day. he also worked yesterday and didn't get home till 5. I texted him and asked if he was still going to get everything done and he said yes. I think he didn't realize how much there still was to do. Because the website isn't up you can guess he didn't' finish. He sent me some a few drafts and i only had one note for one of them, other than that they were perfect. So i'm waiting now on the rest. he's at work and said he gets off at 4 and would send the rest tonight. so hopefully we can get the site up tonight. we'll see.
Misc Marketing
In his email, John Schile suggested in terms of marketing that we should submit the film to IMDB. I don't think they'll except it yet, but what the hell right? i'll submit this week.
Misc in General
Saturday I went to the lab at about 11:30 and Jon Baranick (an actor in the film, and a fellow film student, and the best man at my wedding) was working that day and needed the computer i edit on. In earlier posts i talked about the problems with the software in the lab in terms of different versions of final cut and how i'm limited to only 1 computer in the entire lab cause it's the only computer with the capability to run my project files. Well, Jon is working on his capstone called "Fat Guy P.I." which will also be showing at the capstone screening in 3 weeks and his producer set up the project files on the new version of final cut so Jon is under the same constriction. So now not only do i have to only use 1 computer to work on the movie with, i also have to compete with Jon for it. Stupid. refer to my earlier posts to see how i feel about this software Upgrade/Downgrade issue.
3/27/08
Picture:
Effects
Nothing New
Color
nothing new.
Credits
Nothing New
Picture Misc
Nothing New
Sound
Effects
Grady and I spent all of Monday night, and Tuesday day getting the rest of the room tones and started doing sound effects. We have probably 60% of our sound effects recorded. pretty much we just need to get into the dorms to do the rest. I'm going to schedule that for next Tuesday.
Room Tones
We got almost everything done. I'd say we have about 90% of our room tones. done. they're pretty easy to get. The pain in the ass is driving to every single location. it takes us 4 hours to record 30 minutes of room tones.
ADR
So i got an email on wednesday morning from the ADR facility guy saying that there was a major coplaint on saturday because we were too loud. Stupid. Stupid Stupid Stupid. it frustrates me that this is giving us such a hard time. I just keep telling myself it's the cost of free. I talked to jamie and he said he and ally are going to try to make it out here. We'll see. Also, I talked to kristin and she said she's just swamped and goes to ASU west so it's hard for her to come to tempe. I emailed her asking if she'd like me to wait a couple of weeks and let things calm down for her. we'll see what she says.
Mixing
Grady and tried to start synching the stuff we've been getting yesterday. I say try because there where some issues on what program and how exactly we are going to do it. I got an other hard drive for 2 reasons. One was because i ran out of space, and two was to split up the work, so that i can work on one file on one hard drive while he works on the other. Well it turns out the soundtrack pro sucks at transfering files. So we thought, well ok, we'll sync everything in final cut to make it easier, and then export to Sound track so that we can do the mixing in sound track. Well because of all these technical problems it sort of negates the whole working on two computers at once. Especially because final cut only works on the one computer (see earlier posts). So whatever. I'll see if i can work it out tomorrow while i'm at work.
I met with swtizer yesterday just to give him an update on where i am. I told him i was nervous because i'm so close to the end of this project and i'm stressed by the ADR situation and i jsut want to get the 6 actors done. Switzer didn't seem to care about the ADR and was more concerned with mixing. I told him we were mixing in the lab and he asked what kind of speakers we had and i was like, um. Headphones? he said that's awful because we have no idea of what the movie will actually sound like in a theatre. So switzer said to contact a mixing company and ask them to mix the movie for free. Ha! Janaki came by and suggested the same thing. They said i probably wont get it but why not ask and hopefully they'll let me at least listen to the movie in there facility. So i'm going to start making calls to those places later when i have my original music. I don't want to waste an opertunity like that on temp popular music i can't use
Music
Nothing new.
Misc Sound
I need to do room tones and sound effects in the dorms where i shot and the lady that i used to be in contact doesn't work there anymore. i talked to the new lady and she was incredibly rude and treated me like some sort of deviant who wants to rape the residents. i had several email exchanges with her over the course of an hour where i kept trying to come up with solutions to her concerns in terms of what time, and where we would do the recording and she was very short with me. Finally i sent a long nasty email explaing how i was a student at the university that she worked at and that she was not only not helping with the educational process but impeeding it and bla bla bla and just ranted and raved and then she emailed me and asked me to call her. I talked with her and pulled out my Poly Sci side and apologized for sounding rude but i was frustrated at being treated like someone who's trying to make porn at the library. I didn't say that but you know. I was all polite and sweet and she gave me what i wanted. were going there on tuesday. Actually, i found out later in my meeting with switzer that he had sent her a few emails as well. I had cc'd him on the emails. So i guess that helped. It's just stupid. It's me and grady with a microphone. why such a headache? but whatever. I could actaully proabably double another dorm but that fact that she told me no in such a rude and irational mannor pissed me off so i fought it.
Marketing
Website
I've decided today to do the launch with a section of the website at a time every day. Small sections to to lengthen it out. So when i launch the home page on sunday it should take about 3 weeks to put everything up which is just in time for the screening. I'll have most of the site done and could put up the whole thing by sunday but i think this will be better to get people excited about it and keep them excited rather then let it die down after a week.
Trailer
I met with drew and he said that he didn't have anythign ready for me to see yet but that he would do everything he could to get it done by sunday. i gave him the same spiel i gave Johnny (see next entry)
Posters
I met with Johnny Monday and he had some good stuff to show me. I was a little nervous because it seemed like he hadn't gotten a lot done since the last time i saw him. What he had done was great. He had forgotten some stuff at home and said that it was better so we decided to get together Tuesday night as well. On tuesday night, my fears about him not getting things done were put to rest. He had more great stuff to show me, and on top of that, he drew a drawing right in front of me and it was great. he said it only takes him about 10 minutes to pop out a draft. I asked him if he thought he could be ready by Sunday and he said yes. This is what i told him (and drew about the trailer). I said my biggest priority is quality not deadlines. He's not getting paid and i wish i could pay him but I'm not so i don't have that leverage. So i said if something comes up or it's not enough time. tell me. i want it to be the best that it can be and I'm not as concerned with deadlines (although it would be nice to meet at least one deadline. He sadi that he understood but that he could do it. So far, today is tuesdday and he's sent me several drafts and they just keep getting better and better. I've included one on this post as a little treat and preview of what the posters will look like when they are done.
Misc Marketing
Nothing New
Misc in General
Nothing new.
Effects
Nothing New
Color
nothing new.
Credits
Nothing New
Picture Misc
Nothing New
Sound
Effects
Grady and I spent all of Monday night, and Tuesday day getting the rest of the room tones and started doing sound effects. We have probably 60% of our sound effects recorded. pretty much we just need to get into the dorms to do the rest. I'm going to schedule that for next Tuesday.
Room Tones
We got almost everything done. I'd say we have about 90% of our room tones. done. they're pretty easy to get. The pain in the ass is driving to every single location. it takes us 4 hours to record 30 minutes of room tones.
ADR
So i got an email on wednesday morning from the ADR facility guy saying that there was a major coplaint on saturday because we were too loud. Stupid. Stupid Stupid Stupid. it frustrates me that this is giving us such a hard time. I just keep telling myself it's the cost of free. I talked to jamie and he said he and ally are going to try to make it out here. We'll see. Also, I talked to kristin and she said she's just swamped and goes to ASU west so it's hard for her to come to tempe. I emailed her asking if she'd like me to wait a couple of weeks and let things calm down for her. we'll see what she says.
Mixing
Grady and tried to start synching the stuff we've been getting yesterday. I say try because there where some issues on what program and how exactly we are going to do it. I got an other hard drive for 2 reasons. One was because i ran out of space, and two was to split up the work, so that i can work on one file on one hard drive while he works on the other. Well it turns out the soundtrack pro sucks at transfering files. So we thought, well ok, we'll sync everything in final cut to make it easier, and then export to Sound track so that we can do the mixing in sound track. Well because of all these technical problems it sort of negates the whole working on two computers at once. Especially because final cut only works on the one computer (see earlier posts). So whatever. I'll see if i can work it out tomorrow while i'm at work.
I met with swtizer yesterday just to give him an update on where i am. I told him i was nervous because i'm so close to the end of this project and i'm stressed by the ADR situation and i jsut want to get the 6 actors done. Switzer didn't seem to care about the ADR and was more concerned with mixing. I told him we were mixing in the lab and he asked what kind of speakers we had and i was like, um. Headphones? he said that's awful because we have no idea of what the movie will actually sound like in a theatre. So switzer said to contact a mixing company and ask them to mix the movie for free. Ha! Janaki came by and suggested the same thing. They said i probably wont get it but why not ask and hopefully they'll let me at least listen to the movie in there facility. So i'm going to start making calls to those places later when i have my original music. I don't want to waste an opertunity like that on temp popular music i can't use
Music
Nothing new.
Misc Sound
I need to do room tones and sound effects in the dorms where i shot and the lady that i used to be in contact doesn't work there anymore. i talked to the new lady and she was incredibly rude and treated me like some sort of deviant who wants to rape the residents. i had several email exchanges with her over the course of an hour where i kept trying to come up with solutions to her concerns in terms of what time, and where we would do the recording and she was very short with me. Finally i sent a long nasty email explaing how i was a student at the university that she worked at and that she was not only not helping with the educational process but impeeding it and bla bla bla and just ranted and raved and then she emailed me and asked me to call her. I talked with her and pulled out my Poly Sci side and apologized for sounding rude but i was frustrated at being treated like someone who's trying to make porn at the library. I didn't say that but you know. I was all polite and sweet and she gave me what i wanted. were going there on tuesday. Actually, i found out later in my meeting with switzer that he had sent her a few emails as well. I had cc'd him on the emails. So i guess that helped. It's just stupid. It's me and grady with a microphone. why such a headache? but whatever. I could actaully proabably double another dorm but that fact that she told me no in such a rude and irational mannor pissed me off so i fought it.
Marketing
Website
I've decided today to do the launch with a section of the website at a time every day. Small sections to to lengthen it out. So when i launch the home page on sunday it should take about 3 weeks to put everything up which is just in time for the screening. I'll have most of the site done and could put up the whole thing by sunday but i think this will be better to get people excited about it and keep them excited rather then let it die down after a week.
Trailer
I met with drew and he said that he didn't have anythign ready for me to see yet but that he would do everything he could to get it done by sunday. i gave him the same spiel i gave Johnny (see next entry)
Posters
I met with Johnny Monday and he had some good stuff to show me. I was a little nervous because it seemed like he hadn't gotten a lot done since the last time i saw him. What he had done was great. He had forgotten some stuff at home and said that it was better so we decided to get together Tuesday night as well. On tuesday night, my fears about him not getting things done were put to rest. He had more great stuff to show me, and on top of that, he drew a drawing right in front of me and it was great. he said it only takes him about 10 minutes to pop out a draft. I asked him if he thought he could be ready by Sunday and he said yes. This is what i told him (and drew about the trailer). I said my biggest priority is quality not deadlines. He's not getting paid and i wish i could pay him but I'm not so i don't have that leverage. So i said if something comes up or it's not enough time. tell me. i want it to be the best that it can be and I'm not as concerned with deadlines (although it would be nice to meet at least one deadline. He sadi that he understood but that he could do it. So far, today is tuesdday and he's sent me several drafts and they just keep getting better and better. I've included one on this post as a little treat and preview of what the posters will look like when they are done.
Misc Marketing
Nothing New
Misc in General
Nothing new.
3/24/08
Almost Done with ADR
Picture:
Effects
While editing the opening credits scene I did notice that there is an effect i might need to do. In the wide shots i had to open up the lens to get a good exposure and unfortunately that blew out the back light on the TV. So in the wide shots the TV with the news on it is very bright. not uninterpretable, but bright all the same. when I shot the insert, it was way to bright because it was the only light source for the shot. So i shot it both ways, open and a little blown out, and stopped down so that it was clearer. but this made the plastic frame of the TV get a lot darker than it is in the wide shot. in the wide shot the TV is silver and in the insert it almost looks black. i may do some matting and compositing effects mixing both shots so that the image on the tv is nice and visible with the stopped down image and the image of the TV frame is still silver with the open lens shot. We'll see if people notice this little continuity error before i decide to go ahead and do it. it might not be a big deal. we'll see.
Color
nothing new.
Credits
While i was re-editing the opening scene today i decided to move the movie title credit to a better spot. i think it's going to work well. originally it was over a wide shot of the dorm, and the words "Madison Hall' came up. Instead, i moved it to a shot where Mike and Jeff are ripping down Melanie's posters. it looks good.
Picture Misc
As I hinted at above. i did some editing today on the credits scene. I think I've locked the picture. i worked on it for about an hour and half this morning. it's a simple scene so it was pretty easy. i need to run it by a few people before i lock it down though.
Sound
Effects
Nothing New
Room Tones
Grady and I are going to try to finish recording the rest tonight.
ADR
So Saturday we got most of what we needed done. We finished with Vic, Mike Z., Lauren, Josh, and started with Ben. We were supposed to do Kristin but her son had had a bad night so she couldn't come in. She was going to bring her son with her but i think it's for the best that it didn't happen. I've been thinking that it's probably not a good idea to bring her son to one of the sessions. She's got to get upset, swear, and hyperventilate and stuff and i don't want to upset him. Plus it would probably be hard for him to be quiet. there was a little bit of a fiasco in terms of Lauren just cause she had a crazy day with lock smith's and easter plans etc. I'm still not sure what happened. Unfortunately I had slipped up and didn't add her email address to an email i sent out last week with instructions on where to go and what time. So she tried to call me and email me but i was doing ADR and had my phone off. but she finally made it and we were able to finish her up. It went well. Now all we have left to do is Ben, Adam, Kristin, Ali, Jamie I., Jamie M., Myself, and Jake. The only firm person i have for this Saturday is Jake. Ali has yet to get back to me on what day she can do it. She's coming into town this weekend and she said she'd do ADR but i haven't heard back from her since i had my saturdays restriction imposed. Also, I talked to Jamie I. via AOL instant messaging the other day and he said that he's worried he wont be able to come to phx from cali cause of financial issues, which i told him i completely understand cause i don't have the money to bring him here either. Adam is coming in two weeks so that should be fine. Jamie M. can't do Saturdays EVER. so i have to gravel and beg for the ADR place to let me in at some other time for a few hours to get her done. wish me luck on that. I'm going to call Kristin today to try and schedule something far in advance.
Mixing
Today while editing the opening scene I spent some time syncing the all the different shots of the news. i took on shot and took the entire scene and laid down the sound and synced the other shots of the tv to that one audio file so that anytime you see the tv in any shot it's sync to where the news broadcast is currently at.
Music
I think i'm going to look into using a Sum 41 song. I just asked Danielle about it and she said she's making phone calls today.
Misc Sound
So i forgot to mention in the last post about this master list of sound info that Grady and I made. It took us roughly 10 hours or so to go through the entire movie and write down every que for every sound effect, room tone, and ADR line. it's roughly 7 pages or something like that, single spaced.
Marketing
Website
I spent a good few hours yesterday tweeking some of the javascript. I have no idea what i'm doing. but whatever, it seems to be working fine. Yay free ware online! i'm a little nervous about not getting the art work in time. Everything else should be set to go.
Trailer
Drew, the editor for the new trailer, got back to me and said he was going to have it done by this week. i have my doubts as i haven't seen anything yet, and not that i don't think he'll have something done that he thinks is "done". but i'm sure i'll have some sort of notes. If i'm wrong great! if not, oh well. we'll just keep working at it and have it out asap.
Posters
I had a hard time getting together with Johnny over the weekend. In fact, we didnt' get together at all. I'm meeting up with him today at the brewery where he works.
Misc Marketing
Nothing New
Misc in General
I bought the Hard drive. It's goign to make life soooo much easier. it was a little more than i thought though. ended up being $308 after tax. Oh well. still worth it by far.
Effects
While editing the opening credits scene I did notice that there is an effect i might need to do. In the wide shots i had to open up the lens to get a good exposure and unfortunately that blew out the back light on the TV. So in the wide shots the TV with the news on it is very bright. not uninterpretable, but bright all the same. when I shot the insert, it was way to bright because it was the only light source for the shot. So i shot it both ways, open and a little blown out, and stopped down so that it was clearer. but this made the plastic frame of the TV get a lot darker than it is in the wide shot. in the wide shot the TV is silver and in the insert it almost looks black. i may do some matting and compositing effects mixing both shots so that the image on the tv is nice and visible with the stopped down image and the image of the TV frame is still silver with the open lens shot. We'll see if people notice this little continuity error before i decide to go ahead and do it. it might not be a big deal. we'll see.
Color
nothing new.
Credits
While i was re-editing the opening scene today i decided to move the movie title credit to a better spot. i think it's going to work well. originally it was over a wide shot of the dorm, and the words "Madison Hall' came up. Instead, i moved it to a shot where Mike and Jeff are ripping down Melanie's posters. it looks good.
Picture Misc
As I hinted at above. i did some editing today on the credits scene. I think I've locked the picture. i worked on it for about an hour and half this morning. it's a simple scene so it was pretty easy. i need to run it by a few people before i lock it down though.
Sound
Effects
Nothing New
Room Tones
Grady and I are going to try to finish recording the rest tonight.
ADR
So Saturday we got most of what we needed done. We finished with Vic, Mike Z., Lauren, Josh, and started with Ben. We were supposed to do Kristin but her son had had a bad night so she couldn't come in. She was going to bring her son with her but i think it's for the best that it didn't happen. I've been thinking that it's probably not a good idea to bring her son to one of the sessions. She's got to get upset, swear, and hyperventilate and stuff and i don't want to upset him. Plus it would probably be hard for him to be quiet. there was a little bit of a fiasco in terms of Lauren just cause she had a crazy day with lock smith's and easter plans etc. I'm still not sure what happened. Unfortunately I had slipped up and didn't add her email address to an email i sent out last week with instructions on where to go and what time. So she tried to call me and email me but i was doing ADR and had my phone off. but she finally made it and we were able to finish her up. It went well. Now all we have left to do is Ben, Adam, Kristin, Ali, Jamie I., Jamie M., Myself, and Jake. The only firm person i have for this Saturday is Jake. Ali has yet to get back to me on what day she can do it. She's coming into town this weekend and she said she'd do ADR but i haven't heard back from her since i had my saturdays restriction imposed. Also, I talked to Jamie I. via AOL instant messaging the other day and he said that he's worried he wont be able to come to phx from cali cause of financial issues, which i told him i completely understand cause i don't have the money to bring him here either. Adam is coming in two weeks so that should be fine. Jamie M. can't do Saturdays EVER. so i have to gravel and beg for the ADR place to let me in at some other time for a few hours to get her done. wish me luck on that. I'm going to call Kristin today to try and schedule something far in advance.
Mixing
Today while editing the opening scene I spent some time syncing the all the different shots of the news. i took on shot and took the entire scene and laid down the sound and synced the other shots of the tv to that one audio file so that anytime you see the tv in any shot it's sync to where the news broadcast is currently at.
Music
I think i'm going to look into using a Sum 41 song. I just asked Danielle about it and she said she's making phone calls today.
Misc Sound
So i forgot to mention in the last post about this master list of sound info that Grady and I made. It took us roughly 10 hours or so to go through the entire movie and write down every que for every sound effect, room tone, and ADR line. it's roughly 7 pages or something like that, single spaced.
Marketing
Website
I spent a good few hours yesterday tweeking some of the javascript. I have no idea what i'm doing. but whatever, it seems to be working fine. Yay free ware online! i'm a little nervous about not getting the art work in time. Everything else should be set to go.
Trailer
Drew, the editor for the new trailer, got back to me and said he was going to have it done by this week. i have my doubts as i haven't seen anything yet, and not that i don't think he'll have something done that he thinks is "done". but i'm sure i'll have some sort of notes. If i'm wrong great! if not, oh well. we'll just keep working at it and have it out asap.
Posters
I had a hard time getting together with Johnny over the weekend. In fact, we didnt' get together at all. I'm meeting up with him today at the brewery where he works.
Misc Marketing
Nothing New
Misc in General
I bought the Hard drive. It's goign to make life soooo much easier. it was a little more than i thought though. ended up being $308 after tax. Oh well. still worth it by far.
3/22/08
Major Update
Ok, so I feel bad. I know that I said I would start posting on this blog on a regular basis and I want to. I really do. And I did…well, for a few weeks anyway. I talked to my brother in law who lives in texas at one point and we talked about it. He said something that kind of made me feel better about not posting very often. He said my blog reads like someone who's to busy to post on their blog. Well, that's how I feel. But, I think it's important for myself and for the people involved that I do make time and do keep up with it so I think I've come up with a plan. From now on I will try and post every other day. What I think is happening is that I'm doing so much through out the week that at the end of the week it seems like a daunting task to sit down for 20-40 minutes and type out all that's happened. Maybe if I post every other day they will be smaller posts and there for less daunting.
As you can see, I've also decided to create separate sections (which I was doing informally most of the time anyway) to help organize my blog better.
So let's go ahead and start shall we?
Picture:
Effects
I still have some Visual effects that i need to get done. I'm probably not sure when i'm going to do them but just so you know what they are here's a bit of a break down.
1. I need to create a camera interface for the shots that are the POV of Jeremy's camera. Like time code and cross hairs and the little recording led etc.
2. I need to zoom in 10%-20% in on the image to get a closer shot that i didn't get on set. So essentially i need to take a medium shot and make it a close up. this gets tricky because i have to find the right balance where i don't loose noticeable picture quality when i zoom in.
3. We need to add realistic gun muzzle flashes to the scene where Jason fires a gun. Not sure how I'm going to do that yet. I only need one or two so hopefully we can sell it well. Maybe i'll put a post on craigs list or something for someone familiar with After Effects.
I believe that is all the effects that i need to do for this movie.
Color
Dan and I have yet to go over the picture. We need to sit down and watch the entire movie and go over frame adjustments and color pallets and then start color correcting. I'll probably start to worry about this in 2 or so weeks when i've got the majority of my sound recording done and am working only on mixing.
Credits
Occasionally this goes through my mind but i quickly dismiss it as one of the last steps i'll do. I just don't have time right now.
As for the opening credits, I have to finish editing the opening scene before i can even think about how, what, who, etc.
Picture Misc
The only thing that falls under this category in terms of picture is the last scene i have to edit. It's actually the first. I've put together a rough cut of the scene. I'll talk about it more in the Misc in General Section further down.
Sound
Effects
I have taken the master list of ADR/RoomTones/Effects that Grady and I did and have put them into separate files. Yesterday when I went out to do Room Tone recording I brought the list with me to see if I could get any of those effect via Foley work while i'm out with Grady and the recording equipment. I got a few sound effects that i needed, like when i was doing room tone during the Jeremy arrest scene i was able to record the sounds of the elevator that Tyler was hiding in. the dings, and button mashing, etc. There are 4 pages, single spaced, of sound effects we need to find and or create so this will take a few days to compile.
Room Tones
As i stated above, last night, Grady and I went out on the town getting room tones. I was supper late in the lab creating an ADR DVD and didn't get out of there till about 10. We had planned on starting at more like 6pm and going to every location that we shot the movie at through out the valley with our sound equipment and just sit and shut up. we need to record about 1 minute of audio from each location. Well, since I got out of the lab so late we ended up just walking all over campus getting various outside campus room tones (as a lot of the movie takes place out side on campus) and various sound effects too. once we have all the room tones done we'll then take that minute at each location and lay it down over the scene that takes place at that location. if the scene is longer than a minute than we just loop it. This is done to create a consistent background/ambient noise for the location that the scene is taking place in. Normally (and ideally) this is done on set by the sound crew when the scene is being shot but we just didn't have time and frankly, i just didn't want to. When you're on set it's always easy to say, "eh, we'll just fix it in post" but then you've created an entire day's work for yourself. reap what you sew i guess.
ADR
I almost don't want to write about this section. Not that it's been going bad or anything, just more that so much has happened in the past month that it seems daunting to sit and write about it. Anyway, I had stated in the previous post that i found out the ADR facility was open not from 8-5 but 8-6 and then proceeded to rant about how i wish i knew that before. That doesn't make much sense that an hour would be so significant. It actually is not supposed too. It's a typo, the ADR facility is actually open from 8am-9pm, so actually that's 4 hours outside of business hours. Needless to say we took advantage of it today. as of right now we have 13 of our 25 actors done. So far the sound quality seems to be just fine. One of my initial concerns was that the movie is rated R and i didn't want to offend anyone with the actors yelling obscenities all the time at the facility. we only had one incident with Alicia. It was the scene where Alaska wont let Jason into her room. She's yelling at him through a door and while we were doing a take someone knocked on the door and asked if everyone was OK. Apparently there was a line of people outside the booth all concerned that something was going down inside. no harm no fowl. A nice little chuckle it gave us. oh well. I made a large mistake in terms of ADR scheduling though. For the first few days i didn't give enough time at all for the process. I figured we would have about 8 hours of audio when all was said and done of ADR takes for the movie. I seem to be about right as we have about 4 hours of audio right now and half the actors done. The mistake i made was telling the facility that we had about 8 hours of work. It has worked out to where we need about an hour to get fifteen minutes of audio recorded. So we spend about 16 hours in the facility, 8 of which on one day, getting ADR so far. Well, the facility closed for a week during spring break, (which was about a week ago) and i had sent a few emails requesting time to do ADR for actors that were coming in for the Easter weekend and such. Well, i didn't get a response for a few days until finally, my contact emailed me and said that he was sorry but that the management had decided that "The only firm option I can give you at this point is possibly some Saturday time, the lab is open from 10am-4pm". I was a little stressed by this. Actually, that was a horrible day when i got that email, a whole bunch of other stuff went wrong and i had to scramble and send emails like crazy to all the cast to see if they could change to Saturdays. I sent my contact an email with 2 major concerns. However i started the email on a positive note, letting him know that i was fine with this and that we film students call this "the cost of free" (which is true, if they're giving it to me for free i have no leverage but to grovel). My concerns were this: 1 being that I still have 16 hours of time i need in the facility for the other 12 actors and that takes up almost 3 of the 6 Saturdays left in the semester and other students need to use the facilities, other student that have more precedence then me because it's not my department. I also was concerned because he gave me a Firm option to Possibly work on Saturdays. How is that firm? so i asked for complete confirmation on that so that if it's loose, i can find alternatives. I also started looking for alternatives either way. I had heard a rumor that the film school bought (or made) a portable ADR booth so i went to the studio to check it out. It seems they made it cause it was a joke. and if they did buy it, man what a waste of money. Grady and I checked it out and basically it's some PVC pipe glued together in a rectangular form with bed lining egg crates glued in between the pipes. It was a sorry sight. well, i heard back from my contact at the facility we had been using and he gave me a concrete confirmation on using Saturdays and also laid to rest all of my concerns. so that's what we're doing. I have 6 actors today and we're filling up the entire 10-4 time slot in the booth we've been using. so that's where we are so far. now, here's a bit on the process.
Basically what I did was take the ADR break down sheet that i got from the original sound break down sheet and created an excel file. Then I separated all the actors dialogue ques in sequential order. Basically recording according to actor, then time code. Then Grady and I entered each time code into the timeline of the picture lock and manually typed out the line(s) that needed recording. so from there i also copied a portion of the scene with the line(s) it and significant head room and tail room and opened a new timeline and created a loop. Then i exported the loop as a separate movie file and then have been organizing and authoring ADR DVD's by date and actor. So for today I made a DVD yesterday with a main menu and links to 6 other menus for the 6 actors we have. In each menu are links to each Que loop that the actor needs to replace the dialog. as of right now i have about 6 ADR DVD's today's being one of the biggest. I try to recycle my loops as it takes a long time to create them. what i mean by recycle is if say Kent has a shot where he's in the background with Josh and we just need them mumbling, i'll use Kent's loop on Josh's DVD instead of creating the same loop again for josh. I think it saves time but who knows. So when the actors come in i set up my lap top and put the DVD in. Grady starts the equipment and I start the DVD and they just try to recreate the que while watching the loop and trying to match their performance and sync to the picture. The facility is small but it's free. Grady, me, and the actor are all in the same booth but that doesn't seem to affect sound quality. Grady listens to the soudn't being recorded and I have a head phone splitter on my laptop that i split the sound with so that the actor can listen to the original audio and i listen tot the original audio as well but keep one ear out of the headphones to listen to the new audio the actor is creating. It's always awkward at first but then the actors get used to it and move along smoothly. Thus far we have done the following
Steve Murphy
Amanda Melby
Kate Haas
Kent Walter
Alicia De La Vega
Kasim Aslam
Nate Klaer
Ryan Murphy
Brad Golden
Jen Ball
*Colin Redemer
Danial Kunz
Jon Baranick
Still Left:
Vic Martinez (Today)
*Josh McDermitt (Today)
*Lauren Monroe (Today)
Ben Folsom (Today)
Kristin Kelley (Today)
Mike Zduniak (Today)
*Ali Stelzer
*Jamie Isreal
Jamie McKeel
Jacob Detharidge
*Adam Roa
Jared Mercier (don't laugh)
6 of our 25 actors that need to do ADR don't live in AZ anymore so they're coming form out of town. I *'d them above so you can see who. Colin already came out and i was nervous about his ADR because i had scheduled only 2 hours before i had realized how long it was actually taking us. But it worked out and we breezed through it. Colin saw the movie as it is now while he was here and said he was impressed and that he can see it will be better than he thought it would be. that was motivating. :)
See i told you there was a lot in regards to ADR. Sheesh.
Mixing
Haven't really started this at all. We plan to start syncing the ADR we already have sometime this week.
Music
Tom is back on board. When Tom and I met last and he said he probably wasn't going to be able to do it (before he sent the email saying he wasn't) he asked what i would do if he couldn't. I told him 2 things. Send out emails and craigs list posts etc looking for a composer and also plead with administration to use the editing lab over summer to finish up the mixing of the project. Turns out that i'm considered a student by the university until the start of the Fall semester of 2008 even though i graduate in may. So i'm going to try as hard as i can to finish the mixing before the semester is over (depends on if tom can get it done in time) but if he can't it's fine. So that's why he's back on board. plus, like i told him, i couldn't imagine anyone else doing my first feature. Tom's music saved and/or tripled the effectiveness of the other 3 films that i did with him. I did send out emails and stuff looking for other composers, but everyone that emailed me was very very flaky and/or didn't know what they were doing. It was stressful until i found out about the student status thing.
There will be a campus screening of the movie on April 20th for a capstone presentation, not a premiere or anything, but the school is requesting that I show the film. Actually, i had approached them about it back when i thought it would be done in time, but now i know it wont and they still want to screen it, just with temp music. So i'm looking for temp music and i'll have to start mixing that soon if tom doesnt' have stuff by a week or so before the 20th. Also, Danielle is looking into copyrighted music that we need for the movie. Nothing on that yet.
Misc Sound
I think i've covered everything in terms of sound.
Marketing
Website
The website is moving along fine. I wanted to have my "marketing blitz" out by now, but that just wasn't realistic. I should have, depending on the art work, the new website launched by next sunday. it looks good so far. I'm toying with launching different parts of the website one day at a time to try and raise hits and get people excited about the site and the movie.
Trailer
From what i understand via emails and meetings in passing with the editor, the trailer is in a fine cut stage. I emailed him at the beginning of the week to see where it is but have yet to hear back from. I'll email him today about it. the new trailer wont be out by the time the website launches but that's ok if i do like i said in not launching the entire site at once.
Posters
My poster guy is AWESOME. He did a few drafts so far and they look great. I'm going to try to meet up with him sometime today to go over everything. The posters are going to be the main art for the site so I want to make sure they are done in time. he says it shouldn't be a problem. he's also doing 5 character portraits. I can't wait to get them out.
Misc Marketing
There's a girl i sit next to in one of my classes that is a writer for the state press magazine. I feel temped every tiem i have that class to be like, "hey, i got a story for you" and pitch my movie. I was in the state press once before for LOTD and it was great. I'm going to approach her at some point, but i think i'll wait till the website is up. (i know it's dick but it's an opportunity i don't think i can waste)
Misc in General
Ok, so, as of 3 weeks ago we finally had on official PICTURE WRAP on Madison Hall! YAY! we shot the last scene with the RA making posters with the news on the TV in the background. It took me a long time to get the news graphics set up but i think they look great. So I shot it all by myself, well, my wife Molly helped :) and the actor too. ok ok. Anyway, the way it will work is the scene sets up the idea of the college environment with the school news on in the background and the quiet hours posters being made. the opening credits will go over the quiet hours posters. i still have yet to finish fine editing the scene because i've been so busy with other stuff but i'll get to it.
Over spring break i did nothing. Well, nothing on the movie. I figure it's my last spring break of my college career. Super smash bros Brawl came out and i and some friends played it for 4.5 days strait. i lost 4 pounds cause i barely ate. it was awesome. incredibly awesome.
I'm buying a new hard drive today because I've completely run out of space on my laptop, 500gig hard drive, and 4 gig jump drive. WD Terabyte at costco for $250. can't beat it.
As you can see, I've also decided to create separate sections (which I was doing informally most of the time anyway) to help organize my blog better.
So let's go ahead and start shall we?
Picture:
Effects
I still have some Visual effects that i need to get done. I'm probably not sure when i'm going to do them but just so you know what they are here's a bit of a break down.
1. I need to create a camera interface for the shots that are the POV of Jeremy's camera. Like time code and cross hairs and the little recording led etc.
2. I need to zoom in 10%-20% in on the image to get a closer shot that i didn't get on set. So essentially i need to take a medium shot and make it a close up. this gets tricky because i have to find the right balance where i don't loose noticeable picture quality when i zoom in.
3. We need to add realistic gun muzzle flashes to the scene where Jason fires a gun. Not sure how I'm going to do that yet. I only need one or two so hopefully we can sell it well. Maybe i'll put a post on craigs list or something for someone familiar with After Effects.
I believe that is all the effects that i need to do for this movie.
Color
Dan and I have yet to go over the picture. We need to sit down and watch the entire movie and go over frame adjustments and color pallets and then start color correcting. I'll probably start to worry about this in 2 or so weeks when i've got the majority of my sound recording done and am working only on mixing.
Credits
Occasionally this goes through my mind but i quickly dismiss it as one of the last steps i'll do. I just don't have time right now.
As for the opening credits, I have to finish editing the opening scene before i can even think about how, what, who, etc.
Picture Misc
The only thing that falls under this category in terms of picture is the last scene i have to edit. It's actually the first. I've put together a rough cut of the scene. I'll talk about it more in the Misc in General Section further down.
Sound
Effects
I have taken the master list of ADR/RoomTones/Effects that Grady and I did and have put them into separate files. Yesterday when I went out to do Room Tone recording I brought the list with me to see if I could get any of those effect via Foley work while i'm out with Grady and the recording equipment. I got a few sound effects that i needed, like when i was doing room tone during the Jeremy arrest scene i was able to record the sounds of the elevator that Tyler was hiding in. the dings, and button mashing, etc. There are 4 pages, single spaced, of sound effects we need to find and or create so this will take a few days to compile.
Room Tones
As i stated above, last night, Grady and I went out on the town getting room tones. I was supper late in the lab creating an ADR DVD and didn't get out of there till about 10. We had planned on starting at more like 6pm and going to every location that we shot the movie at through out the valley with our sound equipment and just sit and shut up. we need to record about 1 minute of audio from each location. Well, since I got out of the lab so late we ended up just walking all over campus getting various outside campus room tones (as a lot of the movie takes place out side on campus) and various sound effects too. once we have all the room tones done we'll then take that minute at each location and lay it down over the scene that takes place at that location. if the scene is longer than a minute than we just loop it. This is done to create a consistent background/ambient noise for the location that the scene is taking place in. Normally (and ideally) this is done on set by the sound crew when the scene is being shot but we just didn't have time and frankly, i just didn't want to. When you're on set it's always easy to say, "eh, we'll just fix it in post" but then you've created an entire day's work for yourself. reap what you sew i guess.
ADR
I almost don't want to write about this section. Not that it's been going bad or anything, just more that so much has happened in the past month that it seems daunting to sit and write about it. Anyway, I had stated in the previous post that i found out the ADR facility was open not from 8-5 but 8-6 and then proceeded to rant about how i wish i knew that before. That doesn't make much sense that an hour would be so significant. It actually is not supposed too. It's a typo, the ADR facility is actually open from 8am-9pm, so actually that's 4 hours outside of business hours. Needless to say we took advantage of it today. as of right now we have 13 of our 25 actors done. So far the sound quality seems to be just fine. One of my initial concerns was that the movie is rated R and i didn't want to offend anyone with the actors yelling obscenities all the time at the facility. we only had one incident with Alicia. It was the scene where Alaska wont let Jason into her room. She's yelling at him through a door and while we were doing a take someone knocked on the door and asked if everyone was OK. Apparently there was a line of people outside the booth all concerned that something was going down inside. no harm no fowl. A nice little chuckle it gave us. oh well. I made a large mistake in terms of ADR scheduling though. For the first few days i didn't give enough time at all for the process. I figured we would have about 8 hours of audio when all was said and done of ADR takes for the movie. I seem to be about right as we have about 4 hours of audio right now and half the actors done. The mistake i made was telling the facility that we had about 8 hours of work. It has worked out to where we need about an hour to get fifteen minutes of audio recorded. So we spend about 16 hours in the facility, 8 of which on one day, getting ADR so far. Well, the facility closed for a week during spring break, (which was about a week ago) and i had sent a few emails requesting time to do ADR for actors that were coming in for the Easter weekend and such. Well, i didn't get a response for a few days until finally, my contact emailed me and said that he was sorry but that the management had decided that "The only firm option I can give you at this point is possibly some Saturday time, the lab is open from 10am-4pm". I was a little stressed by this. Actually, that was a horrible day when i got that email, a whole bunch of other stuff went wrong and i had to scramble and send emails like crazy to all the cast to see if they could change to Saturdays. I sent my contact an email with 2 major concerns. However i started the email on a positive note, letting him know that i was fine with this and that we film students call this "the cost of free" (which is true, if they're giving it to me for free i have no leverage but to grovel). My concerns were this: 1 being that I still have 16 hours of time i need in the facility for the other 12 actors and that takes up almost 3 of the 6 Saturdays left in the semester and other students need to use the facilities, other student that have more precedence then me because it's not my department. I also was concerned because he gave me a Firm option to Possibly work on Saturdays. How is that firm? so i asked for complete confirmation on that so that if it's loose, i can find alternatives. I also started looking for alternatives either way. I had heard a rumor that the film school bought (or made) a portable ADR booth so i went to the studio to check it out. It seems they made it cause it was a joke. and if they did buy it, man what a waste of money. Grady and I checked it out and basically it's some PVC pipe glued together in a rectangular form with bed lining egg crates glued in between the pipes. It was a sorry sight. well, i heard back from my contact at the facility we had been using and he gave me a concrete confirmation on using Saturdays and also laid to rest all of my concerns. so that's what we're doing. I have 6 actors today and we're filling up the entire 10-4 time slot in the booth we've been using. so that's where we are so far. now, here's a bit on the process.
Basically what I did was take the ADR break down sheet that i got from the original sound break down sheet and created an excel file. Then I separated all the actors dialogue ques in sequential order. Basically recording according to actor, then time code. Then Grady and I entered each time code into the timeline of the picture lock and manually typed out the line(s) that needed recording. so from there i also copied a portion of the scene with the line(s) it and significant head room and tail room and opened a new timeline and created a loop. Then i exported the loop as a separate movie file and then have been organizing and authoring ADR DVD's by date and actor. So for today I made a DVD yesterday with a main menu and links to 6 other menus for the 6 actors we have. In each menu are links to each Que loop that the actor needs to replace the dialog. as of right now i have about 6 ADR DVD's today's being one of the biggest. I try to recycle my loops as it takes a long time to create them. what i mean by recycle is if say Kent has a shot where he's in the background with Josh and we just need them mumbling, i'll use Kent's loop on Josh's DVD instead of creating the same loop again for josh. I think it saves time but who knows. So when the actors come in i set up my lap top and put the DVD in. Grady starts the equipment and I start the DVD and they just try to recreate the que while watching the loop and trying to match their performance and sync to the picture. The facility is small but it's free. Grady, me, and the actor are all in the same booth but that doesn't seem to affect sound quality. Grady listens to the soudn't being recorded and I have a head phone splitter on my laptop that i split the sound with so that the actor can listen to the original audio and i listen tot the original audio as well but keep one ear out of the headphones to listen to the new audio the actor is creating. It's always awkward at first but then the actors get used to it and move along smoothly. Thus far we have done the following
Steve Murphy
Amanda Melby
Kate Haas
Kent Walter
Alicia De La Vega
Kasim Aslam
Nate Klaer
Ryan Murphy
Brad Golden
Jen Ball
*Colin Redemer
Danial Kunz
Jon Baranick
Still Left:
Vic Martinez (Today)
*Josh McDermitt (Today)
*Lauren Monroe (Today)
Ben Folsom (Today)
Kristin Kelley (Today)
Mike Zduniak (Today)
*Ali Stelzer
*Jamie Isreal
Jamie McKeel
Jacob Detharidge
*Adam Roa
Jared Mercier (don't laugh)
6 of our 25 actors that need to do ADR don't live in AZ anymore so they're coming form out of town. I *'d them above so you can see who. Colin already came out and i was nervous about his ADR because i had scheduled only 2 hours before i had realized how long it was actually taking us. But it worked out and we breezed through it. Colin saw the movie as it is now while he was here and said he was impressed and that he can see it will be better than he thought it would be. that was motivating. :)
See i told you there was a lot in regards to ADR. Sheesh.
Mixing
Haven't really started this at all. We plan to start syncing the ADR we already have sometime this week.
Music
Tom is back on board. When Tom and I met last and he said he probably wasn't going to be able to do it (before he sent the email saying he wasn't) he asked what i would do if he couldn't. I told him 2 things. Send out emails and craigs list posts etc looking for a composer and also plead with administration to use the editing lab over summer to finish up the mixing of the project. Turns out that i'm considered a student by the university until the start of the Fall semester of 2008 even though i graduate in may. So i'm going to try as hard as i can to finish the mixing before the semester is over (depends on if tom can get it done in time) but if he can't it's fine. So that's why he's back on board. plus, like i told him, i couldn't imagine anyone else doing my first feature. Tom's music saved and/or tripled the effectiveness of the other 3 films that i did with him. I did send out emails and stuff looking for other composers, but everyone that emailed me was very very flaky and/or didn't know what they were doing. It was stressful until i found out about the student status thing.
There will be a campus screening of the movie on April 20th for a capstone presentation, not a premiere or anything, but the school is requesting that I show the film. Actually, i had approached them about it back when i thought it would be done in time, but now i know it wont and they still want to screen it, just with temp music. So i'm looking for temp music and i'll have to start mixing that soon if tom doesnt' have stuff by a week or so before the 20th. Also, Danielle is looking into copyrighted music that we need for the movie. Nothing on that yet.
Misc Sound
I think i've covered everything in terms of sound.
Marketing
Website
The website is moving along fine. I wanted to have my "marketing blitz" out by now, but that just wasn't realistic. I should have, depending on the art work, the new website launched by next sunday. it looks good so far. I'm toying with launching different parts of the website one day at a time to try and raise hits and get people excited about the site and the movie.
Trailer
From what i understand via emails and meetings in passing with the editor, the trailer is in a fine cut stage. I emailed him at the beginning of the week to see where it is but have yet to hear back from. I'll email him today about it. the new trailer wont be out by the time the website launches but that's ok if i do like i said in not launching the entire site at once.
Posters
My poster guy is AWESOME. He did a few drafts so far and they look great. I'm going to try to meet up with him sometime today to go over everything. The posters are going to be the main art for the site so I want to make sure they are done in time. he says it shouldn't be a problem. he's also doing 5 character portraits. I can't wait to get them out.
Misc Marketing
There's a girl i sit next to in one of my classes that is a writer for the state press magazine. I feel temped every tiem i have that class to be like, "hey, i got a story for you" and pitch my movie. I was in the state press once before for LOTD and it was great. I'm going to approach her at some point, but i think i'll wait till the website is up. (i know it's dick but it's an opportunity i don't think i can waste)
Misc in General
Ok, so, as of 3 weeks ago we finally had on official PICTURE WRAP on Madison Hall! YAY! we shot the last scene with the RA making posters with the news on the TV in the background. It took me a long time to get the news graphics set up but i think they look great. So I shot it all by myself, well, my wife Molly helped :) and the actor too. ok ok. Anyway, the way it will work is the scene sets up the idea of the college environment with the school news on in the background and the quiet hours posters being made. the opening credits will go over the quiet hours posters. i still have yet to finish fine editing the scene because i've been so busy with other stuff but i'll get to it.
Over spring break i did nothing. Well, nothing on the movie. I figure it's my last spring break of my college career. Super smash bros Brawl came out and i and some friends played it for 4.5 days strait. i lost 4 pounds cause i barely ate. it was awesome. incredibly awesome.
I'm buying a new hard drive today because I've completely run out of space on my laptop, 500gig hard drive, and 4 gig jump drive. WD Terabyte at costco for $250. can't beat it.
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