23 Days

Today is September 4^th. In 23 days it will be exactly two years since we started rolling camera for this movie. Back then it was called Freshman: (with various subtitles). So my last post was titled Summer is slipping away. Well, slipped it did. It’s been over two months since my last post. What I’ll do now is wrap up some of my topics from my last post and then I’ll get into the new stuff. So….

I think I worked a total of maybe, MAYBE, 10 days on the movie this summer. Unfortunatly all I did was work. Work and go to weddings. I did get promoted at the theatre. I’m now a manager and am learning some valuable skills. Right now my primary responsibility is in projection. My typical shift consists of me running all the projectors and the projection booth in the 16 auditorium multiplex for 9-10 hours a day. Some days I love it and some days I hate it. I was going to go down to part time (3 days a week) sometime around this month to work on MH. I’ve almost paid off the debt I owe Molly’s dad, however, I broke the door of their mini van in the middle of august and added another $1600 to my debt. I’m making a bit more money but not enough to pay off the debt any quicker. So I’m staying at my job full time for now. No idea of when or if I’ll go to part time before we move to LA. Thankfully though, my shifts are so long that I ended up working like 50-55 hours a week and I told them I can’t do that and molly agreed so now I’m only working 4 days a week instead of 5. This gives me more time to work on the film.

I found a new guy to do my posters. Frankie. He’s only sent me one draft so far but he’s got a better education than Johnny and more experience with these sort of things so hopefully he’ll come through. I’m going to email him tonight to see when I’ll get the next thing from him.

I sent some notes to Antonio today in regards to the gun shot stuff he’s working on. He also sent me a few drafts of a mock interface for the camera POV shots. He’s done some good work so far and is always quick to get back to me. I’m so glad I’ve got him working with me. I don’t know how I would have done the effects stuff with out him.

Grady still texts me a lot about working on the movie. Molly and I had our last wedding 2 weeks ago and since we’ve been back I’ve been working on MH again. Because I’m only working 4 days a week it makes it a lot easier. I can’t use the lab at school anymore so I’m working at my friend Mike Tapia’s place. He’s got all the stuff I need to work on the sound for the film. His final cut is two old for the project files I have (same problem from the lab) so I’m trying to figure out a way to update his application. Hopefully I can make it work, if I can’t I’m sure I’ll figure something out.

In terms of working on the film, I have no idea of a time table for when it will be completed. I know that I don’t have a whole lot of work to do for the film specifically, and I have a huge amount of post post work to do. What I mean by post post work is marketing and business materials. I try to work on post post stuff when I can’t be working on the actual film, like right now. Below are two lists of what are still left to do for both post and my coined term post post:

Post:

ADR Synching
ADR Recording for Final Actress
Sound Effect Organization
Sound Effect Placement
Room Tone Placement
Music Scoring
Music Selection
Music Clearence
Music Placement
Mixing
Credit Finalization
Credit Creation
Effects Finalization
Effect Placement
Framing
Color Correction
Mastering

Post Post:
Website
Website Content
Trailer(s) (which include everything in the post list but all over again L)
Posters
Post Cards
Business Cards
Press releases (for varius things)
Deliverables (for which I’ll explain more later)
and everything else I can’t think of

It may seem like there’s a lot more to do on the movie then after but believe me, everything on the post post list seems much more daunting to me than the stuff for the movie.

So that’s all I’m up for posting tonight. I know I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. I’m going to be posting more often now that I’m working on the film a lot more again. Sorry to keep everyone in the dark for 2 months.