OnLine - Picture

Over the last 4 days myself, Brett Smith (Colorist) and Marc Menet (DP) have Onlined the picture cut of the movie, AfterThought (Picture only). Firstly once Wendy Elford-Argent had finished her off-line edit, she handed the AFE (Avid File Exchange) to HDStudios, this is basically all the time code elements for the picture edit.

Brett Smith (making of Star Wars III) and myself looked over the film for any further changes to the edit, then we proceeded to watch the film for a look/style. Color can make a film either cold or warm, scary or romantic, you can push the blacks or make a shot during the day seem as if it was shot at night.

Marc Menet flew in from Chicago to over see the last 2 days of the color timing (correction) after 32 hours we finally agreed to print the film to tape, for the HDCAM master tape (Picture Only)

Now we must wait for the 5.1 Dolby mix to marry the sound and picture together, due end of June.

We are still waiting for most of the checks/cheques to be mailed to 30 Something Productions.

M&E

RE: Update

I am sure most of you are wondering where we are with regards to Post Production?

We finished the picture lock about 2 weeks ago, nothing can be done until the editor picture locks the film so each different department works off the same time code (edit). This film is basically one long ‘reel’ of about 83 Minutes (without end credits) a Quick Time copy was handed over to Tim Williams and Andy Hay, the QT copy was about 17GB so too big for a DVD or any other digital format.

Between Tim and Andy there is the ‘Online’ this is simply an ‘Up-Res’ going from DV to HD, back to it’s original quality, then comes ‘Color Timing’ where we match all the shots for the directors look. Titles will be added to this also.

Tim Williams is scoring the film with original music, he’s about 1/3rd the way through. Andy Hay is the Sound Designer, firstly he cuts the dialogue to take out any ‘bump’ or ‘word fumble’, then he fills in the background leveling out all dialogue. Next is the Foley Que, this is every sound you hear from, footsteps to hockey pucks to a tap dripping. The reason for all this is not only for a ‘thicker quality of sound’ but for ‘Foreign Delivery’ once the film has been sold to international markets, they need to replace the current actors dialogue with their choice of language, ‘dubbing’. When this happens, any sound recorded from the actors mic will be lost and should be replaced for M&E.

After the ‘Foley’ we will require most actors to come back and spend a day in the studio, for ADR. Replacing dialogue that is either too quiet or hard to hear, once Tim and Andy have finished there will be a 6 day mixing session for both the Music, Dialogue and Effects. (M&E)

We will finish late May with a 5.1 Dolby-E Theatrical Mix for the premiere.

Producers

$50 Donations List

The plan is to get 70 kind people to donate $50 each for our final payments on the movie, AfterThought. Each $50 gets a screen credit on the scrolling titles.

Checks and Bankers Drafts made payable to:
30 Something Productions

The Benefactors so far are:

70) John Siscel
69) Betty and Peter Argent
68-64) Tooth and Nail Productions
63-62) Anonymous Donation
61) Erin Glaus
60-47) Anonymous Donation
46) Anit Bashar
45-44) Wayne Doul
43) Deborah Elliott
42) Anonymous Donation
41) Jerry Brewington
40) Hannah Plaxen
39-38) Geno Dozier
37) Adam Rowe