Merry Holidays

My major edit idea turned out to be a great idea. what i did was switched the first two scenes. I swaped the news scene and the double teaming so now we open with the double teaming sequence. It also worked really well with the Credits. Mike Tapia helped me with fonts and doing some photoshop and the credits are looking really good. Almost done with the opening sequesnce. 

So i picked up Randy's stuff on Saturday. There was a bit of a snafu and the microphone we intially borrowed didn't work. We had to go back to Randy's and switch it out. we did some recording but it got late (like 2am) and i lost motivation so we called it a night. Haven't picked it up yet. I emailed him about doing it tomorrow night. Molly's got to work and i got no one to hang with for xmas eve. Might as well get some work done right?

I spoke with Tom. He's in town for the holidays. We're going to get together on Friday the 3rd and go through the movie for a few hours going over the spotting i had emailed him. He wont get anything done till he's back in the UK but that's ok.

I almsot got the ADR with Kristin done but the plug got pulled at the last minute. I'm going to use a recording studio in a post house that Antonio works at. I spoke to the manager there and they're going to let me use it for only $50 for an hour. Kristin promised early January she'd get it done. cross your fingers yet again...

I met with Antonio about the Effects. He's almost done. I have to re-import him some footage for one effect, and he's working on a different one while he's waiting for that footage. I'll import it tomorrow and bring it to him after the holidays. But the effects are nearly done. Just 2 shots left.

I didn't get too much done because there was the ASU graduation, My friend Tristan came back over the weekend for the holidays and wanted to hang out, and also my good friends Daniel and Kellie Swier had there baby girl on Saturday. Molly and I spent a lot of time over there on sunday. Also i've been doing things and chores and stuff to get ready for Texas. I'm going with molly's family for 5 days to visit more family in San Antonio. We leave xmas day. So i prolly wont post again till after the new year.

Merry Holiday's everyone (john ;) ) ! Peace!

not as progressive, but progress none the less

I finished all the frame adjustments. It feels really good to have a milestone done and finished. i ended up staying up till like 4 in the morning the last tuesday i posted finishing it.

So i was going to borrow some stuff to do some sound recording but randy didn't have a recording devise, just the mikes and cords. So I looked into renting a portable sound recorder, the same one we had on the first foley stuff we did, and it was going to cost me like $150 with a $500 deposit. Yeah... so i was like no thanks. So after that i did a little more research and decided to borrow randy's stuff and hook them up to Grady's handy cam and record to mini DV that way. That's the way all the original audio was caputred anyway so it will match the movie. We were going to start recording this weekend but there was a hick up with finding a place to play some sirens. I drove all over the valley and even out of the valley looking for a parking lot or venue to play some sirens and record them but nobody wanted to let me do it :( i also had the ASU capstone screening to go to so that took a day out of my week. it took a whole day cause i went to both showings. they showed the film that i had gone up to the reservation to work on. turned out pretty well considering the circumstances. Saturday i spent the day with molly ( we bought an African Spurred Tortoise. ) Sunday i spent roughly 9 hours scheduling Randy's capstone with Stephanie. She signed on as the 1st AD. So ANYWAY.... i didn't get a lot done over the weekend. Then to top it all off, it has rained all week, which means i can't do my sound recording. I could do some interior stuff, but if it rains hard enough it'll pick up on the mic. So we'll just wait till it calms down. hopefully this weekend it'll clear up.

ASU Graduation is tomorrow so i'll be going to that.

I blitzed Kristin on Tuesday after noon and I got contacted by Kristin on Tuesday night. We texted back and forth for a bit. now it's been 8 days and nothing. i called her again today. i'll guess i'll just keep trying.

Antonio and I are getting together Friday about noon to go over some of the effects.

Haven't heard from Tom. I think he's in town. I'm going to email him tonight and try to call him tomorrow.

I spent last night working on the credits and fonts and stuff. I spent a few hours today trying to place some things into the movie. It's not working out too well. Not sure what i'm going to do. I had a drastic idea for a major edit. I'll do it and see what it looks like. It shouldn't interfere with tom's work. We'll see.

Productivity

I had a very productive week last week.

I'm over halfway through adjusting the framing for the film.

Grady and I finished going through the film for a list of foley work to be done. we're going to start recording this friday. i may get equipment from a friend, Randy, to do the recordings that way i wont have to rent anything. yay.

I've decided to put all the marketing stuff aside until i finish teh film. so no poster or website or trailer work until the movie is done. that's what i'm doing.

i also decided a while back not to cut my hair till i finish the movie. it's getting pretty long. i figure more incentive to keep working hard.

I had a hard time getting a hold of antiono about some effects stuff but he finally got back to me late last week. we need to get together because aperently some of his files got curropted.

Grady and I spent 3.5 hours spotting MH for tom. I emailed him the list and he's going to take a look at it. He's actually coming home for the holidays. He'll be here on the 16th. wow. i just realized that's next week. i'm going to try to get together with him to discuss the scoreing further.

Kristin is proving hard to contact again. i blitzed her today. Facebook, email, myspace. hopefully she'll contact me....

Giving Thanks

I am thankful for the all my friends and family that have supported me through this project. I am also thankful for the oportunity to do such a thing. That said, i didn't do a thing over Thanksgiving.