Color Correction Begins on Friday

Color correction officially begins this coming Friday, July 27th at 1:00 p.m. I've been in constant touch with Gaye Lirot over at Broadway Video, and she's been very helpful in setting the whole thing up. I'm going to talk to the woman who's going to be my editor/colorist tomorrow, and I'm probably going to bring the movie materials over to Broadway on Wednesday (tentatively; it could be on a different day at this point). Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this. It should be fun. And, interestingly, Gaye was saying that she thinks it'll only take one or two sessions to color correct the entire movie. So, Matutinal Reverie could potentially be 100% done before the end of the summer. Wow. I'm speechless. But, let's wait to see what happens before breaking out the champagne. Also, Broadway can all of the mastering, which will make life very easy for me.

Not much else. Still writing. And it doesn't look like that mobile phone project is going to happen, at least not right away. My contact at the production company liked the ideas that my writing partner came up with, but thinks that they'll be too expensive to do, at least initially. I couldn't convince him that I excel at creating programming with very little money. Que sera. I'm still very interested in the idea, though. We'll see. I'm supposed to talk to him sometime this week.

And I'm still writing. Much progress is being made on that front.

And I watched season three of Deadwood. Very sorry that there won't be any more shows; what a great series.

Moving On... Slowly, But Surely

Still waiting to hear back from Maria about scheduling color correction at Broadway Video on either July 27th or August. According to Bill, it's hard to get time at Broadway and so I'm begin patient about it. I'm really eager to get started, but if I have to wait a few weeks then I have to wait a few weeks. Nothing I can do about it. I know that Maria's on top of things.

Am also trying to sync up the finalized outputted material from Bill in my Final Cut Pro timeline. For some reason, when I add the .aiff files to the timeline the audio and video don't sync up. I'm not sure why. Bill said that he'd check into everything tomorrow, but I can't figure out what could be causing this problem.

Am still working on the screenplay for my next feature. And had a really productive business meeting on Tuesday about a pitch that I'm working on. Somebody is potentially interested in hiring me to do programming for a company that produces material to be broadcast over mobile phones. So, I met with the person that I'm interested in working with as the writer for the project. This has a real budget, and we have some excellent ideas. I'll keep you posted.

And, lastly, had a wonderful time having drinks with Chris on Wednesday. I was still getting over my cold from a couple of weeks ago and had a cough that bordered on being tubercular (which was a little bit embarrassing), but it was still a lot of fun. I hope to see her often while she's still in New York. Ten years was really far too long to go without seeing each other.

I'm currently getting over a pretty bad cold. I don't know what brought it on. I think it's because I fell asleep on Friday with the air conditioning set to high. Usually, once the apartment cools down I turn the A/C to low. But I dozed off and woke up with the place colder than Dick Cheney's soul. Spent Friday feverish, sweating, with a sore throat and a headache. Luckily, it's mostly passed now. By tomorrow morning, I ought to be fine.

Anyway, on Friday I went over to MercerMedia and picked up the audio mixed materials from Bill. Tres exciting. I'm still waiting to hear back from the Standby Program about color correction. I'm going to email Broadway Video sometime this week, to check in.

That's kind of it, really. While I was sick, I watched Braveheart 2 1/2 times (I happened to come across it on the Discovery Channel; they played it two times in a row). I hate Mel Gibson, but that movie isn't bad. At the very least, it makes for good watching when you're suffering from a flu.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our color correction. Or something like that. Whatever. I think it's time I took some cold medicine and went to bed. Hope your weekend was more fun than mine.

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Audio Mixing is Now Done

Happy Independence Day!!!! I'm off to a barbecue soon, and so I'm going to keep this short. Just remember: if anybody shoots any fireworks at you, duck. They always go up. Ha.

Anyway, the big news with me is that we finished audio mixing on Monday!!!! This is huge. Bill and I have been working on this since late January / early February, and we finally agreed that we're done. We went through the entire movie again and made a few small changes, but nothing major. We also added two sound effects for when Madeleine kisses Barnard on the cheek twice when they first meet up at the beginning of the movie. For some reason, we forgot to ADR that with Andy and Melody way back when. Anyway, on Friday I'm going to go pick up the completed mix and then I'll coordinate scheduling color correction with both the Standby Program and Broadway Video. I'm very excited about this.

The only slight downside is that I got a rejection letter from the Edinburgh International Film Festival this past week. Ah well, that's their problem.

Lastly, Katya emailed me a link to the commercial that we didn't get hired to direct back in April. It's absolutely abysmal. We could've done so much better. I'd post the link, but something tells me that'd be horribly unprofessional. Anyway, if you want to waste 2 1/2 minutes of your life, email and I'll give you the link. Yawn.