ADR is almost finished

Howdy

Well the ADR on Sacrifice will officially be finished on Thursday with Jamie coming in to make the final touches. I hope everything turns out good, I really would like if I had more time to spend on the sound design as I thinmk it is really important Next up will be DVD authoring. As of yet I have no idea about what is happening with my colour correction I may have to take it upon myself to finish that off.

In other news I am now in my second week on the film 'beautiful' it is fantastic best professional project I have worked on so far. Richard has been showing me some great stuff,, actually taking the time to teach me all about lighting and what to do do to achieve some great effects. Of course the technical stuff is quite hard to take on board all at once but things are slowly becoming clearer, and more understandable.

Also I am Lighting guy on an 'I can see Queerly now' film that Maxx is shooting this weekend. Should be a whole lot of fun.

regards

Dave.

Hey another blog guys, have to keep this bad boy running.

Well all picture edits are almost done with Gimmie Shelter, and Back to the dead already in post production, he he! Phil sure is busy.

All films are going good, as for Sacrifice (ex 90 mile), I am becoming much happier with how the edit is coming along, more polished and clear narrative wise. A young dude from Salisbury TAFE has already sent me through some samples of some stuff, it sounds really good although I need to listen to it a few more times before I can give any extra advice.

This thursday we are all going to be showing our films to the rest of the class, and giving feedback, hopefully this is insightful and I will get some honest feedback which will allow me to improve the film. I have high hopes at the moment. Still organising ADR (Additional Dialogue Replacement) with the actors.

Working on a feature film at the moment called: "The Resident Magician". it is being shot in a breakneck 3 weeks. I am best boy on it, assisting Storm Ashwood. Next week I start on "Beautiful" which I am in fact getting paid for, it's gonna be really great I may actually have some money in my bank account which would be great. Unfortunately that means I will not be at school to supervise the ADR, Jen however has stepped up to the bat and offered to help with that whilst I am absent.....Thanks Jen.

cheers Guys stay tuned.

Dave.

Edit time

Hey people.

Well It's been a while since I have posted anything, been busy editing with Nick. I am also editing Annie's film "Time for Tea", which is great because it is giving me a some great oppurtunities to learn to use Colour, Motion 3 and Soundtrack Pro- sometimes frustrating always fun.

90 mile desert edit is going ok, I am not as happy with it as I should be. There is also massive sound problems, and it looks like we have to re-record all of Roger's dialogue- CRAP!!! Both Peter and Leigh have given helpful suggestions. With Leigh recommending us to change the title to "Sacrifice"

On the plus side I am the lighting attachment on the film "Beautiful", Cassie and James Mellor are also working on the film in the art department cool! and Maxx in camera department. Richard Rees Jones is the Gaffer and I will be learning from him.

Plus here's some trivia- Richard was the gaffer on Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (pictured above).......Cool!

catch ya soon.

Kicking goals (ha ha yeah bad, I know)

Hello friends

thought i would post some new info, even though nothing much has happened. Went to AV Central last wednesday to dump all the XD CAM footage onto a hard drive, I bought myself a 400gb portable hard drive which will give me more than enough space for my entire project. This also means that post MAPS I can take the footage with me although MAPS keeps the XD CAM disks (dam beaucracy!) I managed to have a brief look at the footage at Low resolution, it still looks really good and I can't wait to start editing with Mr. Skeer- wonderous times ahead. Will try to work on finding a composer for my music soon, If anyone know a good composer please let me know.

Now that business is over, i will briefly mention social life as it has been busy since i moved to the city, dam it's good there is just so much more to do when you don't live out in the sticks.

Had a killer friday went to see "The Evil Dead" at the mercury with Rowan and some mates, It was wicked sick, they played a 35mm print of the film that was scratched as hell and looked like it had been in someones basement for about 30 years. They also played army of darkness, but we didn't stick around because we had other arrangements.

We then went on to Danny Steel's friday the 13th gathering, we watched friday the 13th part 3, and sat around drinking home made plonk, it was heaps fun, Rowan came dressed as Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" it was fantastic.

anyway seeya round.

dave.

After 5 days of shooting the 90 mile desert crew were growing tired of gregan's slavedriving.

Also just got this great pic from Dragan........thats right Dave keep leaning over.....

It's over! no more MAPS 07 films, boo hoo!!

Hey guys

well this is my post 90 mile desert blog. As i am currently exhausted as I write this. We also just moved to the city which means I have had no sleep on the weekend either.

anyway the shoot went great, I was tearing my hair out with stress about the weather situation. All the weather reports said we would experience rain, but no not callington believe it or not. Yep no rain all week, although it did drizzle down on Friday. However God must like me a bit since Just as we finished the very last shot of the film on friday as we started to pack up, it started to pour down. Ha HA! how lucky is that. I will now point out the good and bad points of the production, i am sure there is more but I am too tired to think.

The good: Tha actors were great. The most amazing part for me was during the dream sequence it got really heavy, and Jamie just nailed it. Seeing his performance on screen made the whole thing worth while.

Also on friday we had a big extra's days, I was worried that we would have no extra's come but believe it or not about 10 people showed up, all of them dressed the part to a tea, They looked great and definately added production value to the film.

The bad: A particular make-up artist who will remain namesless, pulled out on me at the last second. DAM!!!
Have to pay the football club $20 for use of their power, man i really am cheap.

Well really things weren't too bad at all and you must expect some things not to go right.

Lets just hope it all cuts together, and yet another adventure begins.

toodles.

p.s a big thanks to my wonderful crew. Maxx for his fabulous camera work, Jen for sound. Dan "multi-talent Vink"- for sound and lighting. Danny "hurry the fuck up" Steel, Cassie- for Unit, Dragan for his constant stills work, Tom for clapper loading, Nick Cleary, and rowan for set dressing hamilton. Jamie, Janelle, Rachel, and roger my fabulous actors. Also to cert 4's- Ben for behind the scenes, and road control, abe also for general production work, and of course to Jamie for being a great unit manager and general run around guy.

I told you I'm not Fuckin Gay! (and back tot the dead).

Hello people

Well we are currently in our second week of production. Because I am neither on jen's or annies shoot I am using the week to tie up loose ends, find props, and rehearse actors, this is happening on tuesday.

I was lighting on Dan vink's back to the dead. Everything went down smoothly and there were no major hick up's. I got to play a zombie who gets brained with a meat mallet, my head being bashed into a bloody pulp.

otherwise currently attempting to get some shelter for Jen's "the ogre" this may or may not prove easy.

p.s I am not Gay!, am I Mr. Cleary???