more music

tis the season as they say, and turkey day was very cool and relaxing. though, the weekend was still quite busy as ever. bob massey sent me a couple more tracks of music for the all important apt/park bench sequence and the black limbo w/filipino man sequence. so, i synched up the scenes with the lo-res versions and ftp them back to him so he had a idea of what everything sounds like all together. this is just meant to be a thematic reference, and not meant to be perfect in timing and levels and such. so far, i really dig what bob has brought to the project, and i'm extremely excited to see the final product when it's all said and done. there's just one more track to produce, then it's refining all to tracks that have been produced thus far.

since i was able to finish tom's actor reel last week, and also since i had the short promo interview of him from the last time we were in new york, i offered to author the dvd reel. still waiting to hear back from him, but it really shouldn't be that much more to do with it. i think as an actor demo reel, it looks really short and sweet, and very polished. so hopefully he'll get more gigs as a result.

so, i found a place locally that i can rent a digital betacam deck and i'm currently filing out all the paper work to get that going. it's mainly getting a certificate of insurance faxed over to the main office, and for them to approve everything. if all of it works out, i will prolly start to digitize the film at hi-res in a couple of weeks. six and half hours of footage is a lot to digitize. over the weekend, i tested out the the avid deck configuration that i planned to use with the digibeta deck with a dvd player with component outs, and everything worked out solid. so hopefully, the digibeta deck should be no prob.

so me and paul are heading back up to new york for x-mas, which will be really cool. i'm also planning to head out to l.a. in january for a couple of days to meet up with bob. i'll prolly shoot some stuff out there as well.

chipping away

over the past couple of weekends, i've mainly been focusing on getting up to speed on the avid system and also concentrating on working on the music for the film. i'm also putting together tom's demo reel on the side. soon, i'll sub rent a digibeta deck and digitize all of the footage to work on the final on-line of the film. so, i'm basically chipping away at different aspects of the film,slowly but surely...

me and bob massey have been ftp-ing files back and forth to work on all the different music themes for the film. so far, i think everything that bob has composed has been absolutely beautiful, and it's so cool to see all these different scenes finally come together. i think it's really cool that even though bob is in l.a. and i'm here in d.c., that we can still work together on this. i'm looking forward to my trip out there as well.

tom sent me a bunch of other short films that he had been in, and he asked me if i could edit his demo reel for him. tom doesn't have a whole lot to work with, but i think that there are some really strong sections that can be edited together to make a pretty decent reel. i've also had to think about what scenes from PRAXIS i am comfortable with including on tom's reel. anyhoo, i'll prolly put something together by this weekend.

on a more technical note, i'm planning to sub-rent a digibeta deck, and i've been reading up on how to properly configure everything so that it's all kosher. avid is not as straight forward on this stuff, but i have roughly six and a half hours of footage that needs to be digitized, and i'm giving myself ample time to be sure that i can do this properly, just in case something comes up. proper planning....yadda yadda yadda...

i think it'll all work out... :P