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.