Tristan

In the last two weeks i was half as productive as i wanted to be. Tristan, one of the exec producers, and one of my best friends, is left town for good. There were a few events that i just had to go to so yeah. I also was asked to PA on a shoot that Stephanie was ADing. Steph was one of our gaffer's on MH. So all in all I probably worked only part time for the last two weeks. Hopefully back to full time after thanks giving.

I finished adding all the roomtones and effects that we have and i have to say i'm fairly pleased. Right now Grady and I are screening the movie for additional recording. It's taking about 1/4th to 1/5th time to do it. What i mean by that is for every minute of the film we're spending 4 or 5 going over it and over it looking for what needs to be added. it took us 3 hours to do 30min so yeah.... we're about a third the way through right now. 

I'm also about 30min through now with frame correction. I knew it would make a difference but it's making a much bigger difference than i anticipated. Which i think is great!

Kristin has informed me that her internship is over after thanksgiving. So she'll have a lot more time. I'm calling her on Friday.

Music is at a stand still as i haven't found time to spot. I'm going to try to have something for tom to work on by tonight.

Normalized

I seem to have started this habbit of posting on wednesdays. not sure why. So my first week went of full time work on the movie went fairly well. It was a little difficult to get up early in the morning and get down to tapias but it seems to be getting easier.

I have finished normalizing all of the dialog and I feel great about it. There are only maybe 2 or 3 real concerns i have in terms of quality and continuity. there's a point at which we where ADRing a light coversation between vic and steve (ashton and price) and then they have scripted lines. well we didn't adr the scripted lines, only the conversation, and the jump from the ADR to the in camera sound is really jaring there and doesn't match. I was afraid things like this would happen but i was also prepared for it and i'm sooooo happy that there are so few places where that accured.

i've started putting in the roomtones and sound effects and it's going pretty well. the foley we did worked out well but i'm finding that there's a lot more that i have to do. I did a lot of foley and even though i know i didn't get it all i didn't reallize that i barely did half. owe well. i plan on renting equipment sometime in the next two week so or so. The roomtones are 50/50. Half the time they work and half the time they don't. the only reason they don't work though is because they were recorded to low. we need to record room tones at a higher volume level and turn it down, rather than the oposit. kind of like taking a high quality picture and scaling it down to a thmb as apposed to taking a thmb and scaling it up. get my drift?

i did hear from kristin and she said she's trying to find time.

i got a bunch of responses from the craigs list add. i'll respond to some of them tonight.

i also posted an add for a VO artist for a new trailer. i got a bunch of responses which is good. i'm not going to approach anyone until i have something to work with though.

Tom liked some of the music i sent him but some of it he didn't think worked for the movie. which made me sad but that's alright. he did have a good suggestion about moving some placements of songs and that got me really excited. he also sent me some original work for the film that Molly really liked. i'm still undecided but i have yet to hear it and see the picture at the same time. That's the next step. He also said he's anxious to get working on some other stuff and wanted me to spot the film out for him. I'm going to try to do that either tomorrow or friday.

That's about it. I know nobody reads these things but if anyone has any questions feel free to post them and i'll do my best to answer them. Except you Dan. Don't post a thing. i'll just delete your comments.

Late Start

So my last day at work was last thursday. i ended up staying at the theatre from 10pm-6am. it was a long night. mostly i was just hanging with the employee's and talking seeing as it was my last day. there was a cleaning crew that we had to stay and supervise. whatever, then halloween was friday night. I had to hang with family sunday night and today i spent 5 hours driving around phoenix trying to get finger printed so i can apply for a job as a substitue teacher. so in short, i'm not as far along as i'd like to be after my first few days of only working on the movie. 

so far i've normalized about half of the movie. well, i've normalized half the dialog. it's going pretty well. haven't found any problems since i changed all those file names. which is good.

I sent a few of the songs i'm thinking of using in MH to Tom in  england to start editing them to the movie. i'm anxiuos to see what he does with them.

i've started going through footage picking shots for the new trailer. i'm excited about some of my new ideas. 

i had to let frankie go as the cartoonist. he just hasn't shown me anything in 4 months and i need something really soon. i posted an add to craigs list. we'll see what comes of it.

i've been working on framing the picture. it's coming along nicely. i'm about 10 min into the film. i've gone shot by shot and i'm surprised how much i'm moving the frame around. i'm also doing some motion and zoom effects to get rid of canted angles and lessen the effect of shakieness some hand held shots have. it's working very nicely.

i finally was able to talk to janaki about the kind of equipment they have. he was fairly rude to me. lied to me and said he never got my phone calls. what a load of crap.

I have yet to hear from kristin again. but i'm calling her every day.