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