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The next 9 Days are gonna be INSANE
Posted by in Journal on May 14, 2009
Ok so tomorrow starts one long stream of insanity starting with the second to the last day of shooting tomorrow. Here is what is on my list for the next 9 days starting tomorrow and ending on the 23rd of May:
- Shoot Tomorrow then come home to do ADR with Eric till night (Eric wrapped)
- Do ADR with Eric all day Saturday if we don’t finish tomorrow
- Sunday is church, then a going away potluck for me with friends and family, then hanging with friends later in the day who I probably won’t see again unless I visit (sadness…)
- Last day of shooting with Rob at church
- Go to my last Vintage night at Tuesday and cry as I say goodbye to friends.
- Shoot Pastor’s interview for the film as well as my Gaffer’s and my moms.
- Finish ADR recording with Katy and Maggie, and anything left with Aaron.
- Work on all the ADR recorded to make sure I’m not missing anything and all takes are good and fit.
- Get any shots that might be left for the film like establishing shots while I have the chance.
- Begin packing.
- Shop for a new wardrobe all day one of the days.
- Somehow work in a 40hr work week at the church (my last)
- Complete training of volunteers for the taping at church and anything needed to be worked out with the guy taking my job in ministry.
- Finalize trip details
- Visit with any other friends and family while I have the chance.
- Finish planning my Bday/Going Away party and have it!
There is probably something missing but yea you get the point. It’s going to be INSANE.
I worked on ADR with Rob today in the morning. It went pretty well and the takes seem to work good. It’s moving along a lot faster than I thought, thank goodness. After that I relaxed for a bit then headed to work with a headache. I talked to someone on Facebook for a while that really gave me a pounding headache. It was driving me nuts. Luckily it went away at work and I finished up some stuff. Some guy had his daughter on the playground at the church and he just kept letting her scream like a raving lunatic. I wanted to go give him an earful but restrained myself. It sounded like she was being murdered.
Afterwards I went home and continued to work on the post sound stuff and ADR from today to try and clean it up and get some of it actually in place and mixed. It looks like things will work well. The next week is going to have me doing a lot of sound work to make sure I don’t miss anything….should be busy.
After that I got invited to go to the gym to work out so I went. It was fun. I did some biking, some basic arm exercises, and spent most of my time on the leg press. I probably did about 50 presses working my way up from 110lbs up to the limit on the machine which was about 390. My legs are pretty big, one thing that I think is just genetic LOL. I hate what I look like in shorts…I look like a retard. I’ll sweat like crazy in CA in jeans all the time but honestly I just can’t stand the shape of my body. Maybe I’m just not a big fan of big legs, no matter how much muscle is/isn’t on them. Maybe shorts that actually fit would make that less embarrassing for me haha. I had old High School shorts on that needed to be tightened with a belt by like 4inches or so.
After that on my way out I got a call from a friend who got ripped off by someone I can’t stand. He ripped me and our film off in the past and is a big joke. I told my friend what he was, what he did, and NEVER to return his calls again. I can’t believe this guy. I’ll keep his name silent although he does deserve to be brought out into the light. I went home very upset because my buddy works hard and absolutely doesn’t deserve to be treated like that. I hope I don’t run into him in CA or I’ll give him an earful, I don’t care how old the man is. I saw right through him a few months ago when that whole nightmare happened during our trip to California…I’m just bummed my friend wasn’t so discerning. We paid him what we “owed” him out of principle and nothing more. In no way did we owe him a dime. Enough grilling of him, I’m done. I just hope someone really calls him out on how he treats people one day, I don’t have enough breath in my lungs to say what I would want to. All those who know him and work with him that know me (or know who I’m talking about)…if your reading this and you keep silent the way you do while that slim-ball rips off more people, shame on you.
I’m tired, got some prep to do before tomorrows shoot. G’night, keep me in prayer. I got a lot of crap to do in a short amount of time. *vroom vroom*
Mish Mash
Posted by in Journal on May 5, 2009
Today was unusual. I went to work at normal, and got some things done. I had to leave early today to go pick up the equipment which was left at Dave Gifford’s house in Youngstown (since we thought we would be shooting there last week we left it there). That gave me the opportunity to take that nice drive along the river I normally talk about enjoying on Sundays. It was weird because it felt like a Sunday simply because I was making that drive. I picked up the stuff and went home, passing a few school busses on the way. After I got home I rushed to get all the equipment out of my car to try and figure out where to shoot Aaron’s scene in the next hour. I tried a few places and settled on the dining room. I hadn’t really planned on being in there again since we have shot there before. Both scenes involve Aaron in the dining room and it’s supposed to be two different locations in the film. Odds are you wont tell since I’m much closer on his face in this one and at a different part of the room. It should come out fine. I also had no sound person so I clamped the boom pole into position via two stands. It held up well since he didn’t really have to move much. The scene was actually really important even though it was just a short conversation on the phone. We shot maybe 30 minutes or so of footage which is a lot considering the scene will probably be a minute.
After that we got the sound equipment upstairs to try out the ADR process. Aaron only has a few lines so it was a good test run. However, the scene he had to dub had him way far back in frame, making it really hard to see his lips. I had to zoom into the footage 200% to see his lines. This was a scene because of weather I needed to quickly film and get it over with. It’s something you would have a lav mic on the actor for since they are well out of boom range. We’ve known we needed to dub this for months (we shot it summer last year for Pete’s sake) and just now have the time to start the ADR. It went pretty well and we’ll see how it mixes together. I’m trying to get a feel for this and so was Aaron. It’s one of the rare scenes I need to totally recreate everything and throw out the production track. Dialog, footsteps, clothing, background noise, and in this case car doors, car starting, pulling away, etc. Even a few folks walking in the background will probably need a thing or two. LOTS of work to be done on scenes like that…luckily there is only three. That isn’t good but isn’t bad considering what we thought it was going to be just a few short months ago. We finished his lines in about an hour and we both left.
I went to Vintage (which I was late for) and hung with some friends afterwards at Applebees (as is the norm). It’s a fun time, and I’ll miss it. I have three Vintage outings left, and three Sunday mornings left. Hopefully my last Sunday I’ll be able to actually sit in a pew (something I’ve only done maybe 3 times since Spring 2006). It’ll be weird but I’ll love not having anything to worry about on a Sunday. Just come and be a church goer…what a concept!
After I got home I took a bike ride. Three times around the block, hustling all the way lol. I gotta get rid of this chin I got, it drives me nuts. I think this new haircut has actually made me even more conscious of my face. The haircut is kinda roundish so my face looks more round to me in the mirror. I gotta get the face off my face, yuck. Honestly, I normally lose it there before anywhere else so hopefully I can actually get some sort of jawline showing a little easier in the near future. Yea I’m body conscious…sue me.
G’night, I’m bushed and gotta get up at 7:30am to shoot at 9am. Here’s hoping for a good shoot!
Sundays, Suits, & Madness
Posted by in Journal on May 3, 2009
Today was a Sunday so obviously I was getting up for church. I arose at 9am ready to start the day but alas, no clothes to wear. I’ve been rotating shirts for 2 weeks now, I run out of clothes QUICK. Luckily I found a nice new dress shirt in my closet I don’t think I’ve worn before and put it with the suit and outfit from the wedding yesterday…instant snazziness. 
I taped the service as usual. This was my 2nd to last time filming Pastor Billy. Over 230 sermons later, my time is almost over. I’ve taped every service besides 2 or 3 since April 30th, 2006 (Pastor Billy’s first sermon at NFBC). Two more to tape (a guest next week), and his last one I’ll do on the 17th. It’ll be bittersweet I’m sure but I’m glad to be rid of it. Time to move on, and leave the Media Ministry to thrive on its own steam
Brad & Jen
When church was ending I ran a little ways up the aisle to get some shots of people in pews I need for the film. They give you funny looks (who wouldn’t) when they have a camera near them. I wasn’t really pointing at any of them, but using their bodies as pillars I guess you could say. I was shooting through them zoomed in on others across the sanctuary. I got a shot or two I think I can use…thank goodness. I only have a few to get it right!
I went out to eat with Jen & Brad after church. We went to the Brickyard (my favorite place to eat as of late) and we had a great time. They are such awesome friends, and I’m jealous of them haha. They love each other so much. It’s all over their faces, in every glance and smirk. I’m always staring at them and they always catch me doing so, haha. I can’t help it…it’s just too cool to watch them interact. I tease Brad every once in a while when his wedding day is. They are PB&J, and they know it! 
After that I took my the long way home again, enjoying the drive and the weather along the river. I’ll miss that drive I think, although I may find another I enjoy even more! After I got home I worked on our edit a little bit and called Kevin to come and meet. I sorta edited with him sitting next to me and we actually got some good stuff done. I get motivated when Kevin is around so I’m glad he was there. I probably got more done with him just sitting there and me commentating than I have in a long time by myself. After he left I got even more done tightening up some edits and getting some scene transitions done. Later came the big one, when I got an email from Bill Ebel (editor of Fireproof) with a new edit of a scene I had been waiting for. It had been a long time since I had heard from him so I wasn’t sure what was going on. I was relieved to get the email. He explained he was overloaded which I figured so that was no problem. The scene was good and I did some tweaking and some color correction and other things to get it more refined. After that I tackled some audio problems. That scene worried me a lot but surprisingly I pulled a rabbit out of the hat and smoothed it out pretty well I think. I didn’t know I could do that LOL…and it was one of the scenes I was worried about the most. Woo! I’m glad to have that behind me. The scene isn’t done by any means, it needs lots more work, but the worry for it is pretty much gone.
Well that’s about it, 3 days of shooting this week coming up. The way things worked out it’ll be Tuesday here at my house with Aaron for a scene he has alone, Rob by himself again on Wednesday, and lots of people on Thursday in our last huge day. Beyond this week we’ll have 2 small things to do at Kevin’s house and the day at Dave Giffords that got rained out. Many more days (as always) then we thought or planned for but hey…you can’t control the weather OR people schedules. It’ll be fine. Also Tuesday will be a day we start tackling ADR. Aaron ironically will be the first to give it a real try. That is funny since he is normally the last one shot, the hardest to schedule, etc. I hope we get all of his stuff done that day in a few hours. He doesn’t have a lot, just a few lines. Here’s hoping! What a great week it’ll be if we knock all that out of the park!
