Holy Foley!

After i posted last week i sat down and started to watch the movie and take more notes on what needs to be done for sound. I got about 15 minutes into the movie when i realized...what the hell am i doing this for? i mean, i know i put all the sound effects from Soundtrack in and whatnot, but why do i need to watch it again? I was just looking at my notes constantly and confirming what i already had down. sure i'd add something or realize something every 5 min or so. But why waste time doing that now? i'm going to have to screen the film when i have everything done that i've already got notes for now so why not wait till then. yeah. so I did just let the rest of the movie play. but i didn't take notes. i watched it for color. everything looked good. i'm sure i'll see something i want to change at some point but for right now, good.

I haven't found music yet for the 2 scene i need music for. I haven't really been looking either. i'll get on it this week when i have down time. 

I had a very very busy week with foley. I ended up staying over at Tapia's for 2 nights working on foley stuff. I was able to find about 200 effects on sound track and so i had about 240ish effects to record. I think that's right. i could check but i don't want too. it's something liek that. anyway, we started doingn recording on wednesday night and did maybe 15 recordings. we decided to quit early because we werent' doing thing effeciantly. I had my notes that i had taken with grady a few months ago, but they were in chronological order so i kept having to go get props again and stuff. So we ended early and first thing in the morning on thursday i set about to rearranging my notes into a more efficiant schedule. doing all the effects in one location, with all the props i need, and doing one prop at a time and getting all the effects i need with that prop all at once. That sort of thing. It took me about 3 hours to rearrange everything. i was able to condense that 240 down to about 150. you know, because a foot step is a foot step, even though it occurs at 10 different places in the movie. See, in my notes, i had 10 different footstep effects writtine down. that would be a waste of time. So then we started recording again. Johny Murphy came and helped us out too. we got about 45 effects recorded that night so it was very productive. Molly helped me do effects Saturday night and we got about 20 effects done. Friday i imported the effects and played around with them. Today i did some syncing and the recorded effects are going to work great. which is so funny cause our recording method is so ghetto. highend microphone xlr to mini converter into a soccermom mini dv cam. we can record at 16bit audio though which is good enough for this. So right now i have about 70 our to 150 done. not bad. i'm going to be doing some myself tongiht. i've got a mic stand so it should be fine. a little awkward but fine. 

I finished the credits friday. Finished. All done. I've decided not to do the Where are they nows. i just don't think it will fit with the film. no opening credits either. Just the company logos and the main title. all the credits will be at the end.

I'm meeting with Jason this Thursday. I'm hoping i can do the importing of the old footage at Randy's this Friday.

Tom did a few of the other Spy ques and they're great. He went on vacation this weekend so nothing new from him for a couple days now. but almost done!

So, i think, if i kick it in the ass, and i mean REALLY kick it in the ass... I could have the movie done by Sunday...

...I know right? it's unlikely, but possible. Wish me luck.