In response to a very helpful suggestion via Mike Hedge, Erica helped record and edit this production update - I talked about the opening scene of the film, as it is one of the more complicated or SFX-heavy scenes; but if, weeks from now, I’m still struggling to find help with sound design, I’ll pick one of the other more complicated scenes as a follow up.
Erica and I ate lunch yesterday under a post-studio here in Burbank that I’m excited about, I had forgotten all about it, I used to drive past it almost everyday when we still lived south of Magnolia; she’s hoping to get in touch with them tomorrow.
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Just a quick check-in about two of things I’ve been keeping busy with as of late - there’s more that I’ve been working on regarding the film, but those will have to wait for another video. One quick update to this update, the sound place in North Hollywood wrote back, so I’ll be scheduling a meeting them as soon as possible *fingers crossed*
I’m catching up on some of the 7x7 videos that Erica uploaded to Vimeo recently - this one was almost all footage of Larry visiting just before bicycling south through Mexico. Here’s a snippet from her video description:
2) Mike tries to stall Larry from watching FToM for the first time. 3) Breakfast at Franks 4) Larry rides away during pick up shots at Mugu Point. 5) Mike chews gum and waits. 6) Crazy old guys singing and karaoke at the Grove. Also, an acrobat. 7) Larry watching FToM for the first time while Mike nervously picks at his arm :P
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In the midst of moving apartments, Erica found that we still have piles and piles of stickers, plus a box full of pins, and, lastly, a Kinko’s sleeve of film flyers!
We’re making care packages and mailing them out to *anyone* who simply emails their mailing address to info@FToMfilm.com - free of charge. Help us run out of stock!
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I sound a bit under the weather in this video - but, despite my sore throat, I’ve been hard at work editing and writing for the film.
Amanda and I have been working over video-chat to work out the rough parts of the script. On top of that, we recently finished our 64 Days Production Journal and I just so happened to get it in the mail today after I started recording this update.
I’m really excited at how they turned out! We’ll be posting more on that later - for now, it’s time for me to get back to editing.
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Post Production - Week 70 - Larry shared a pretty personal and emotional letter recently - and I asked if he would mind my sharing it on the site.
I realize that many people might find his words in the letter a bit strange - but that was half the point of me reading it… I’m curious how these feelings come across to other people.
For me, the letter makes perfect sense, all the emotions seems right in line with what I went through… with what I’m still going through - but I know that won’t be the case for everyone.
post production - week 68 - We’re down to the last 24 hours of the Babelgum contest - we really have no idea where we stand at the moment, since the relaunch of their site it’s been impossible to even do a rough count of our position. So it will be as much of a surprise to us as anyone when the release their shortlist on the 3rd.
Okay, enough about the contest for now. I’ve been trying to get back into writing and editing mode, and haven’t been able to re-acclimate as fast as I’d like after spending a few weeks neck deep in html, css, js and all kinds of other initials that are mostly over my head.
Post Production - Week 65 - Big announcement for us in this update - we launched our brand spanking new film site :) It was a total re-design from the original page and I spent weeks coding it and hope that people like it.
And as of today we have 19 days left on t.minus! You’re allowed to vote for 64 Days on Babelgum once a day which could help us fund the remainder of post-production!
Post Production - Week 64 - A quick update on what I’ve been keeping myself extremely busy with the last week - keep checking back at forthousandsofmiles.com :) it won’t be long before we launch the new site.
And don’t forget there’s still a month left of voting for 64 Days in the Babelgum film fest! Winning would give us all the money needed for post-production!
Amanda and I spent the whole day editing and checking things off Pedal’s to-do list. It was also my brother’s birthday. Also, here’s Erica’s video vimeo.com/2261214
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Amanda and I had another Thursday meeting - we worked on 64 Days - Part 4, and recorded some VO for the end of Part 3. Re-wrote a large block of the 9 script to include things I’d left out. Picked out some music. And decided on the next teaser. Moving along.
We can’t wait to release the next episode. I didn’t realize how much I miss that feeling of excitement from the first few waves of reactions.
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Post Production - Week 39 - I took this a few nights ago when I came home from work to find all of the hard-drives we’d ordered waiting for me!
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Episode 1 of 5
This episode marks the beginning – the roots of Pedal’s inspiration, and its upcoming monthly video-podcast. I treated this cut as if I were starting from scratch, I wanted to explain what this project means to me, what to expect during filming, as well as after, and what I hope to achieve in the end.
I’d love to hear your feedback, your questions, comments, confusions – they will greatly help me in shaping the next episode (and in not getting ahead of myself).
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