Sunday Night

We're finishing up some last minute things with audio tonight. Strangely no foley sounds were recorded for our film. I'll also say the mixing work was a bit loped sided as well with one person doing most of the work. It would be nice to pick our post audio crew for the next project. Besides all that I am excited to see it all come together.

Project two should be a fun shoot. Kelly and I are meeting this week with our actors to film them in a read through. Right now we are planning a late week night in Fishers for filming. Communication during Spring Break will be huge here. We are tossing around some ideas for filming in a car. Anyone have any ideas?

Hey -- guess what? All done!

I just finished the audio mix with Kelly and Amy, and I really think it's good. Also just finished up the last of the color correction -- uploaded it to the server, made all the files in compressor (including a DVD file). I haven't heard from the second group working on the audio for my project. They never emailed me back after I offered my help. I won't go after it... We'll just see how it turns out.

As far as my second project, Sean and I are meeting tomorrow to story board, later this week with the cast, and then shooting the weekend after spring break plus a quick edit. Should be pretty crazy, but we'll be able to do it. Very excited for that one.

Still Behind

I wish I wasn't so behind still.   I really appreciate getting this extra time.  You never know what will happen.  I think I could have caught up if I was able to do ADR this week, but Stan had it reserved so we're going to have to do it next week.  This upcoming week.  No problem. I'll just get everything else ready and when I get my ADR, I'll be good to go.

I got some songs off First Com on Friday.  I wish I could have gotten just one more, but the ones I got, I'm excited about them.  I think they'll fit nicely.  I like figuring out how music will fit in.  It should be interesting.  

I e-mailed the actors for the new project on Friday and I haven't gotten any responses back.  We forgot to show up to pick our actors (still don't know how that happened) and so we were assigned people.   I actually like the people we were assigned.  One of them is a good friend of mine and I've spoken to him in person. The other two...I don't know what they're doing.  I'm looking for office locations right now.  That, to me, seems like it'll be the toughest part.  After that, it'll be okay, I think.

Oops, I just realized I didn't post for last week...

Anyways, I am so excited about how the casting for P2 turned out! JD and I were able to get our first choice for all of the leads and nearly all of the other parts as well! I hope things turned out well for the rest of you!

I am also very impressed with Jillian in how her ADR turned out. We ended up ADRing the entire scene of dialogue between the two actors, but Jillian was amazing with it, and got nearly all of the lines on the first take.

Finishing P1 and Preparing for P2

We did ADR last night for almost an hour and a half. It went really well. My audio team is excellent and Lindsey was able to ADR a scene that we had no original audio for. Of course, that was my mistake on location, but with a little time, her voice syncs up perfectly. I am excited for P2 and trying to make arrangements for shooting locations in my hometown of Fishers. I had always envisioned the setting of this film being a "suburban bubble." Fishers is the blue print of suburbs. I'm going to see how expensive getting the rights to The Who's "Baba O'Reily," which mentions Teenage Wasteland through out the song. I will also have a better chance of getting the local police to participate in the film. Tonight after auditions I will be able to picture the scenes a little better, knowing who's face will become each character. I really want to put in a lot of effort for P2, and hopefully, send it into some contests.

Project #2- the Beginnings

So project two seems to have potential. I am looking forward to auditions this week; being able to cast our own characters will be a new challenge. I don't have much to say about this week's blog so I will end saying this. The purpose of this blog forum is to benefit the rest of us as readers and to trouble shoot our technical and time problems. If someone has an issue with a group member or a professor, be professional, and contact them in person and do not use this resource as a bitch-session. This class is about collaboration, and preparing us as directors and producers. Directing is about leadership and teamwork. If you are only in it for self-benefit, and not willing to take the time to help others, then you need to step down. Be professional, or get out.

Capt'n "Time" Crunch

So ADR went very smoothly, I overbooked time, and only took about 45 minutes. I am still worried about the FOLEY work. I haven't been able to contact my 330 group members, and haven't heard of their progress yet. I am hoping to wrap things up Friday since I have a wedding this weekend. I hope everything works out.