Life of Kyle Prohaska

I locked the Standing Firm edit yesterday…woo Seems like a small woo but seriously I’m happy.  The edit of Standing Firm has been in progress for (seriously…I mean it) almost 2 years.  I started editing on Day 1 of shooting, after I got home each day logging and putting together the footage.  It’s taken a long time to get to this point for various reasons I won’t mention but I’m just glad the time is here.  I’m working on getting the deliverable files to my composer Jurgen.  The computer has been rendering for a long time as I get the full HD files ready for him, and organize the music/sound so he can have no-music and temp-music versions of the soundtrack.  This is going to be fun

Color-correction starts pretty much as soon as I feel like it.  I’ve already color-corrected pieces of the film as time has gone on, but now it’ll be legitimately started.  This will probably take a few weeks to complete with some diligent work every day.  I’m glad I bought that Blackmagic Intensity Card recently for output to my monitors, it’s going to help a lot.  I have a 15in CRT production monitor to monitor critical color on, and I can see it on my Plasma at the same time as well as my canvas in FCP.  That combined with my scopes should give me a good gauge on where to push the levels of color/contrast/balance, etc.

I’ll also be working on organizing the timeline and getting it streamlined as I go.  Some audio can be thrown away, other shots that are disabled and under other footage can now be discarded, and other things of that sort.  It’ll make the process that much better.  The greatest challenge I have right now is securing the rights to use a song I want for the end credits, and getting a song for two places in the film.  One of which really needs to be original (not score but vocals).  The song we original had in there was a Third Day song that would’ve cost tens of thousands to use (because of the publishing rights).  For those of you who don’t know, that’s close to our budget for the whole film LOL…so unfortunately it has to go.  I’m really bummed to see that as it fits perfectly in content/lyrics/etc., but I guess we can’t.  Finding somebody who can give me something good is going to be a big challenge, and one I’m concerned about the most I think.  We’ll see how God helps us out there, pray about that if you could.

I’m going to be finishing up some other projects from Jan soon here like the Sperry menus.  I’m looking forward to getting all the dough from the side jobs the past two months into the bank account.  I suspect I’ll see a number there I never have before so Praise God for that.  That’s going to give me some ease about finishing the film on a financial level and taking care of myself too.  He’s really providing here, and it’s awesome to see.

There isn’t a ton else going on, just work/friends/Denise really…and that’s enough busy-ness for one guy.  I hope this year flies by…it is already to some degree!