Monday, February 27, 2012

Another Update

Just trying to remember to update this thing with my progress - easier said than done, but here I am.

Not much to write about other than sound editing on 'Preservation' still. Slowly coming along. I am by no means a sound person, so this part of the film is the hardest for me to work on. Also the most tedious. But it has to get done, so here I sit. As I mentioned before, I'm working in passes. The first pass (editing in all the ADR and making sure that all the dialogue is clean) is getting close to being finished. The total running time of the film at the moment is 1 hour and 35 minutes. I am 1 hour and 10 minutes into my first sound pass! Just finished a pretty long, intricate scene today with lots of screaming and crying. I was about to call it a day after that, but I decided to push myself to do one more scene. I really didn't want to, but it's done now and I feel pretty good about that.

That's about it for now. I'll be plugging away at this again tomorrow....and the day after....and the day after....and the day af--- well, you get it.

The funny part is - after all this work - who the hell is even going to care? I'm pretty sure everyone who worked on it has written it off as one of those projects that they'll never see, and even after I'm finished, they'll probably look at it and say "we waited five years for THAT?"

Oh well. At least the monkey will be off my back and I can move forward.

Later!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Quick Update

Just a quick update. Still cutting dialogue for 'Preservation'. Finally over halfway through the film with that. Still a lot of ADR to cut in, but I'm plugging away at it.

That's about it for now. Had some good meetings lately regarding a couple of other projects that could hopefully be on the horizon - but more on that at another time.

Later!

Friday, February 10, 2012

Preservation - WTF?

Quick update on Preservation for anyone who 1) may still care, and 2) stumbles upon this blog...

The visuals are all done and locked. Been done for a few months, but I'm terrible at progress updates. Anyway, the VFX are finished and I've moved on to sound editing - which I hate....but it needs to get done, so I'm plugging away at it.

So far I've been working on it for about two days. The first pass is editing the dialogue - making sure that everything flows correctly - no clicks, pops, etc....adding in all the re-recorded dialogue, yadda yadda. I'm 30 minutes into the movie.

After that I'll go back and start cutting in all the sound effects and foley sound. Then the music (some of which still needs to be written) will get cut in, and then I go back and do one final sound pass to mix all the levels. After that, I just need to go through and color correct everything and slap some credits on the end.

Well, better get back to it. If the Mayans are correct I only have until December to wrap this up. Work has been pretty slow the last two months which has proved to be conducive to the process, but a pain in the ass to my bank account.

More as I finish.