True Color

As of this evening I have finished all of the Color correction for the film. At least I went through the entire film and color corrected.It took me roughly 4x the length of the film. As i was working i was figuring out ways to move faster through the film. It was interesting how some parts i didn't expect to be correcting i ended up making adjustments, and others i wanted to correct but ended up leaving the way they were. I decided to leave all the tunnels  stuff natural, the same way we left the sound. I think it's an interesting choice and adds something to the film. There was 2 scenes that i desperatly wanted the change the color tempature but couldn't because i door was open to another room in the scene that was lite with different temperature then the foreground. Both scenes are redish orange and the hall ways are blue so when i bring down the red the hallway turns into a windex blue that just looks aweful :( oh well. live and learn. it doesn't hurt the film to leave it red, it's just now what i wanted. Now i'm going to burn a DVD and take it home and watch it on my TV some time this weekend. I'm excited. This is another large milestone. I may have a few tweeks to do but over all it's done so that means that All that's left for picture is just finalizing credits, then only sound work left! :) wahoo!

Still need to do the Foley work.

Tom keeps sending stuff and it's great.

I spent roughly 4 hours over the past couple days on the phone and on the internet trying to track down who to talk to about purchasing the rights to the two major songs i want. Christina Auguilera's All i want is you and Faith Hill's Breathe. Each is owned by a different company so i have to deal with two seperate entities. No one seems to want to help me either. They keep telling me i called the wrong place or to email some else. I don't really knwo what i'm doing and am not 100% sure which kind of rights i want. i just want to talk to someone who will have some patients and go through all the details with me. I'll keep trying. 

I've been watching hero's lately and all the text has made me wonder about what MH would be like if i did a bunch of title cards through out the film. i might through some in for the time being to see what they look like.

I've been spending some time on myspace looking for music that could work in case i don't get the big music i wanted. i'm actually thinking it might be better not to use it because it would be so rare. i mean, most of the music in the film will be written for the film and local indie bands, so the popular music might stick out too much. i mean, imagine if in Lord of the Rings Coolio's Gangsta's paradise started playing in mordor? it woudl be really out of place right? obviously nothing would be that bad in MH but you get my drift. we'll see.