Audio and whatnot

I think one of my favorite parts of the editing process is figuring out how the music can fit in.  I got some songs off of first com and I'm kind of cutting them up to fit in with the action...it's kind of fun I guess.  We did ADR on Thursday and it went really quickly.  They only had a few lines to do and even though Liz was sick (and you could tell) I still think she did a good job trying to sound upbeat.  Desiree went out and recorded some foley so we should be adding that in the next few days.

For some reason, I'm having a lot of trouble getting onto the server. I don't know if it's the server's problem or mine, but I hope it gets fixed soon since I haven't started the poster and I kind of need the logos and stuff to do that.  Does anyone already have the logos that they could send to me so Brad and I can finish up our poster?

Early blog

I'm going to go ahead and blog early since I won't be around this weekend/early next week.

Our ADR went great, and we pretty much "fixed" the car scene. While the audio team mixes, Sean and I will be doing color correction and effects to fix this thing up. Should be a good product with very limited snags!

Okay, going to Vegas now.

P2 ADR

So Al and I had our ADR sessions last night with our group. All I can say is that Meg and Alli saved our project from our goof with the location audio. Both sessions went very smoothly, and have many great takes for the audio team to work with. We still need to work on color correction, but other than that, I think the final product will be great. We originally had a MusTech major interested in composing a piece for us, but unfortunately his schedule didn't allow for that. We did find music that fits great though. Hope everyone else's projects turn out great.

Last Blog

Well this is the last blog I need to do to get my points for the class so I don't flunk out with about 8 weeks left. Well, Cyrus and I are in the process of getting our poster designed. I'm a little upset that I didn't get to see the movies last week but I guess I'll live. Hopefully no one had any problems getting them turned in and everything. Well I guess that's about all I have to say. I bid you farewell.

CTT & ADR

Well CTT is done and it looks really good. We have a lot of ADR to do, but we were able to schedule everything in so as long as nothing catestrophic happens with scheduling I think we'll end up with a great final product.

Post

Finally, we are ready to begin post production. We have allotted some extra time in the audio studios for ADR - as I understand it this is a big week for actors and call backs. Overall, I am very excited to see all of this come together. Kelly and I made some crucial cuts to the opening of the film. To be most democratic, we showed our rough cut to our actors and tried to incorporate their suggestions into the CTT.

P2 Progress

Well Jeff and I finished the CTT last night to put on some finishing touches. I am very happy with how the film turned out. We were in an awkward position because we were at 13:30 with the rough cut, and we had to cut the first scene. Its sad to do, but I think with the pacing and style of the film, it should work better. We are going to need plenty of time with ADR and color correction. I trust the audio team, they worked on my Tattle Tail film so I've had a chance to become familiar with them. I am very anxious to see the final product.

Hurray for CTT!

We finished shooting the transition scenes. For some reason, part of the footage that turned out is in this strobe looking effect, whereas, the rest of the half is fine. The logical answer is that either the camera was dirty, or the tape deck was messed up. Either way, we'll try to recapture the tape later within the week. Everything is looking spiffy. Tori is pretty kickass. Short, but kickass. 

Bummer

Well...I don't need to say anything regarding this class and what's happenend. As for project 2, I've done everything I'm going to do on it. I'm looking forward to seeing how everyone else's turned out. I have high hopes for the Galilean. I think that was the lone good script in the selection and I think JD and Kathleen will do a great job on it.

Cut to Time is finished

After a week of reshoots and editing, we have finally finished our CTT. It turned out really well and I am anxious to see what other people will think of it in class. We are over on time which is not what we planned, but we think audio wise, it will be a fairly easy mix and hopefully we can get it figured out with our audio team.

We are doing ADR on Thursday and luckily there isn't much that needs to be done in that session. We have a lot of time blocked out, so either way we are safe. We still need to do color correction, but I am confident that we are certainly heading in the right direction and we will have an awesome final project when all is said and done.

CUT TO TIME IS FINISHED and over 10 mins

I am just now turning in the cut to time. I have to say it is one of the best products I have made here at Ball State. I think it turned out much better than project 1. I am really worried about the time, though. The final cut is 14 mins 45 secs. -- 45 seconds is the credits. I watched this thing a bunch of times and tried different things, but I couldn't make much sense out it without these scenes. Some of the scenes are drawn out but I was trying to show off the actors. Our nat sound turned out fairly decent. I don't think that this mix would be especially hard. If I am being graded on my storytelling ability, then there's no way that this movie could 10 mins. I am sorry. To tell the story, it had to be longer.

Cut to time

Just finished the cut to time. Once the music gets on there, I think it will be pretty alright.   We filmed a few transition scenes right before we went to finish up editing tonight and for some reason, something funky is going on with the frame rate for some of it. I don't know.  

Filming went okay this week. Kind of sucks that we don't have an audio group anymore and I'm not exactly sure what that's going to mean for us, but it's not too hard to do foley and at least now we know exactly what we'll be getting.  

We're supposed to do ADR on Thursday, but there's not much to be done I don't think.  Most of the audio came out okay and there's not really a ton of dialogue.  There's a little tiny part of a scene that will definitely need it, but besides that I think it's okay.

Audio Week

Not much to report on the CEC front. Cut To Time is finished and uploaded; we've got a ton of color corrections and effect corrections to go through this week, and we need to get started on our poster. I'm sure we'll be busting our ass off with ADR this week as well, but that's the way it goes.

I'm very excited to check out NAB next weekend too. Very excited.

Almost Done

For the most part it appears the film is going well. I've emailed our main actors to try and schedule possible ADR just in case, although right now Andy and I don't think we'll need it. Andy's been getting B-roll this week to fill in some transitional gaps, so he's actually done most of the work this week. Also, the Star of David necklace is MIA, but he's worked around it.

I'm a bit concerned about some of the audio team members. I trust Kelly because he knows how both sides work, but Andy was supposed to meet with some other members earlier this week and was blown off essentially. I'm hoping this will not be a pattern during the post-production process, since there's not a lot of time to get everything done and we want to bang out the best film we can.

Is anyone else just kind of ready to be done? This has been a long semester and I'm kind of glad we're now passing the films onto the audio team and we can be finished with it.

P2:Director's Cut

Nothing to report on much this week. Things are going well. I am excited to start working on audio this week. We have scheduled our ADR sessions to hopefully cover up our audio goof. I hope everyone else is progressing. I enjoyed watching the rough cuts finally coming together.