Mover and a Shaker

I did four posts today cause i thought each topic deserved it's own little section.

since i'm starting working 6 days a week i'm going to be kicking everythign in the ass and getting things moving. as grady calls me, a mover and a shaker, that's what i'm going to do. move and shake that shit up. 

in fact, i spoke with Kristin today. TWICE! She's totally down and still wants to be involved, which is such a relief to me. she's going to try and look into a time to meet. If i don't hear from her by thursday i'm going to giver her a call.

One Day Left

So a few days after my last post i had a horrible day at work. It was so bad i don't even really remember it. so i quit. I quit. I'm soooo happy i quit. i didn't walk out or anything. i texted molly from work and asked if i could quit for my birthday. I've paid off the credit card debt i owe her dad but we still owe the 1600 for the car. we've been trying to save money to pay that off and to save to move to LA. But i just hate my job so much and also Mike Tapia moves out of his house on Dec 1st. I don't know where he's going but i need to finish the movie and he may not be around. Then what the hell will i do? So i did a lot of talking with molly and we decided it was best that i quit. I put in my two weeks and my last day is tomorrow. well, it's my last schedule day where i really have to work. i'm going to go in thursday night and screen a movie one last time and turn in my keys. but the last day i have to spend 9 hours there is tomorrow and it's the last day i'll have to wear my suit. i'm so excited. So today is tuesday (wednesday morning). I have to work 12-9 wednesday and then on thursday i'm going to tapias. i'm going to screen my movie thursday night, then on firday it's halloween. Saturday is Nov 1st which will be the first day that i start my 6 days a week of working full time on the movie at tapias!!!!!!! i'm very very very very very very very excited. Almost there. I think i see the finish line.

i'm going to substitue teach on in about a month or so. that's how long it takes to set up.

Bad Stain

I was absolutly exstatic when i got contacted by Chase Stain, owner of Bad Stain Records, who is a member of the Band Numbers on Napkins, the one i was trying to contact for so long. YAY! he's givin me free rain with any of his music to use for the movie. he also gave me some CD's from other bands to use as well. Right now i have 5 or 6 songs the i'm most likely going to use. i'm so happy. the songs work well too. he's giving it all to me for free. i know he wants the publicity and exposure and i don't blame him but i don't really feel that right about it. So what i'm going to do, although i haven't told him yet, is give him rights to the footage of MH for any kind of Music Video for any of the songs i use in the movie. I'm debating on weather or not i want to take that project on myself once the movie's over. Maybe i could use it as well for marketing materials for MH? i'll make the offer to him, but we'll see on me doing the video. i'll post again about it later.

in other related music news, i recieved some ques from tom but haven't placed them in the timeline yet. i really need to email him. i think i'll try to do that tonight.

Slashie

So i don't know if i've spoken of this before or not but i'll go ahead and explian it just in case i didn't. When i captured all the footage 2 years ago in final cut, i followed the file path that the window suggested. so all my files where named according to Scene, Shot, Take. The file path suggested is this SceneNumber_Shot/Take. So in example, this is the file for scene 283 shot 4 take 2: 283_4/2. well most technical people know that back splashes are file path and programing formating or something like that but i guess i'm not most people. after all it was suggested by final cut! anyway, so these files worked absolutly fine for 2 years....until...Sound track. when i worked in sound track, after spending days and days making the project files, whenever i alted a file, the / in the file caused an error and it wouldn't save. IT WOULDN'T SAVE!!!! Grady and I figured out that if we went into the operating system and altered the name of the file to something like 283_4--2 and then reconnected the file then saved, closed the project then reopened it, we could then save our progress for that particular file. Well, with 1180 somewhat files that got really really really annoying, so i decided to fix them all. It took me 9 hours. I had to go and manually change the file name for all 1180 somewhat files so that none had a / in them. then i had to manualy reconect each file in final cut to it's original source file with a new name. after that i had to sent the sequenses to sound track and cut and paste each of the new sequences with the correctly linked files back into the original project files with the ADR synced and such. it was a giant pain in the ass. i'm only half way done right now with cutting and pasting but it's not that bad. so FUCK YOU SLASHIE!!!

Home on The Res

"Home" is a student film being made by a very good friend of mine. He's a native American, Navajo to be specific, and he's making a movie based on the reservation. I've been meaning to help him on the project a lot for the last few weeks but never really got a chance to because of work and short notice. But i was able to head up to the reservation over the last weekend with him and help him shoot the rest of his film. It was a great experience. But, it meant i didn't work on MH as much as i had meant to.

Over the last few days it's been a pain in the ass trying to get everything organized. i had some hick ups with file paths and crashes so i had to end up recreating all the project files for sound mixing. It took me pretty much all day but that's ok. I ended up cutting the film into 3min-4min sections. there's about 25 project files. But with the projects being so much shorter than before there will be no more crashes.

I still have not heard from Frankie, Tom, or the band i was trying to contact. not sure what i'm going to do about it.

I bought a PC to TV converter box today so that i can hook up a CRT (tube TV) to Mike's computer so i can monitor image quality while color correcting. i had fun setting it up. it looks nice.

I'm feeling a bit of a time crunch because Mike's going to be moving out of his house on Dec 1st, which is only 7 weeks away. so i'm scrambling now to get this done. Grady and I set a bunch of deadlines for ourselves to help keep us on track.

I started going through all the old call sheets to start working on what the movie cost in deferrals. it was fun to go through all the old call sheets.