No Website Yet...Maybe Tonight?

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.