Today was an interesting work day.  I essentially downloaded and uploaded files all day, moving things to a new server from our churches current server.  That isn’t very exciting, just a loading progress bar most of the day.  Luckily the internet at home was working well enough today that I had no issues, something that has plagued me since January.  I talked to some folks and worked on the Standing Firm edit some more.  I think I’m starting to lock certain small scenes.  From what I can tell the film is about 1/7th Locked or somewhere around there.

I’m so thankful that we were able to reshoot some scenes for the film.  They were for story reasons and other problems but in the end we knocked out a lot of back audio in our film, things that would’ve taken lots of work to sweeten.  We still have some ADR to do however, a lot of it on outdoors audio.  Our shotgun/mixer setup really beat us up during production, and very rarely did it give us clean sound.  Most of the audio that is problematic sounds canned and covered and is absolutely unusable.  We will need to do some work to get things into a better arena and be up to par with the rest of the film.  Tomorrow Eric Stevenson (playing Steven) will be over to shoot his behind the scenes interview and start his part of the ADR.  I’m hoping things go well since neither he or I have done Dialog Dubbing.  It is relatively simple but I know it’ll take some elbow grease to get used to.  We have a time clock slowly ticking on this film, because Eric will be leaving us soon.  He will be in Korea to teach for a full year.  That means he’ll likely miss the premiere and many other things but just to finish the film I need to get whatever is needed with him done ASAP.  This makes me nervous and that’s exactly why although shooting tomorrow (for the film itself) fell through, we still decided to at least check something off the list.  Even if we only get 1 line of ADR done and his BTS Interview, that’s one more thing completed and off the list for him.

I finally got to ride my bike today, first time in well over a year.  I didn’t do anything last summer, it was all the movie and work.  No hockey, no biking, no vacations, nothing…just working.  It was nice to go riding and my mom was with me so we chatted as we rode.  Later on I went to our churches youth group to see some people and sat in on their study.  It was more conversational so we all had a good time talking about God’s Word (Colossians 3).  Afterwards I loaded up my car and came home to make sure I have what I need for tomorrow.

Also someone I know will have his new music video posted tonight at midnight CST.  Marc Scibilia used to live around here and I’ve had the chance to talk with him a few times.  I know his brother Matt much better than him but he is a great guy with a fantastic voice and a heart for God.  He also helped Devan Golda record a song that we plan to use for our film.  Thanks Marc!  To check out the music video go to Julian Smith’s YouTube Channel!