Dabbeling

So, as expected, after watching MH with all the color correction done there's a bit of tweeking i need to do. One scene i feel i should have never color corrected at all. There's a few shots that need to be adjusted in a few scenes but the scenes as a whole work fine. One of the scenes that i left alone, as explained in the previous post, really needs to be adjusted. I'll just have to find a mid point between the blue hall and the red room. Try to find someway to make both spaces work. Right now, with the way it is it just looks aweful. I'm sure i'll be able to fix it.

Everytime i watch the movie i have these editing urges. it's like, i want to start re-editing a scene or cut something out. grr. there will be some last minute edits at the very end once the movie is done. it's much easier to do that then to do it now and screw up the time code for the other people working on the film.

After watchign the film for color i've decided to take LOTD out of the film. There was a scene were two characters are watching it on a TV. I have it in the movie because in the script the characters were supposed to be watching a baseball game but it would be impossible for me to get rights to a real game and I never shot footage of a fake game for the TV. So what i'm going to do instead is have them watch the same news that melanie watches in the begining. I'm going to need Antonio to do the effect of transposing the image on the TV for me but that shouldnt' be a problem.

Tom sent me new stuff. Haven't synched it yet.

Nothing from the record companies yet.

I'm still debating about title cards. I'm leaning more towards time stamps  now. I think it might be able to move the film along more smoothly. We'll see.

I still need to do the Foley work but I did recently find a whole pile of royalty free sound effects that i think will work really well for the movie. Sometime in the next few days i'm going to through my list of what i need to record and see if i can find it in this pile. I'm hoping it will cut what i need to record in half. :)

I started dabbeling with the whole mixing thing. I found this really neat equalizer tool that will allow me to fix some of the ADR problems i have. The thing were part of the dialog is ADR and the other part is in camera. So far it's worked really well with one part of the double teaming is gay argument. The other it didn't work as good but i've got to play around with it. I also played around with some effects that create a "coming from behind a door" sound on dialog. I'm excited to start doing this kind of stuff.