MAY 25 - MONTREAL
BONJOUR DUDES;
I'm in Montreal working on a 2-Part MOW as the picture editor. Hence you are all gonna have to suffer less frequent blog entries.... I'm not gonna talk about this project on "THE CHAIR" blog as it just wouldn't be right. So unless people, either of you, comment or ask questions... the blog will slow down.... Perhaps take a month off...
Before I left Toronto, here is where it sat. We were on day 6 of 5 for the sound mix. We are still not done. We're VERY close and it all sounds MOST WicKeD. Thanks to the sound team.... Ronayne, Jean, David, Brent, Marilee, Randy, , Kathy-1, Mandy, Kathy-2, Steve, Joe and Dashen. Plenty of people to make a movie sound "MOST WicKeD"
But alas, this past Monday, we worked well into..... well Tuesday... and I was on a plane in a few hours. So instead of killing ourselves by rushing and possibly hurrying the quality, the quorum of 5 agreed to a happy finish when I come back.
Did I use quorum in the right context there. And by quorum, I mean the mixers, Eric and Kirk, and the Producers Doug and Michael. Overall, I think the mix may have gone smoother if ALEX TONG (seen here) was there. He is basically the backbone of Tattersall Sound and Picture. He supports the whole company. Wait, but then there's ED, and the company also rests on him, I guess Ed can be the ass then... but in a good way. Cuz really, we all need our asses. Sorry Ed... did that come out wrong? Ahhh, he doesn't read this anyway. Please admire a picture of Ed's cat, seen below. We tease because we love.
Eric and Kirk were doing a wonderful job putting up with our tomfoolery. It must be a drag to sit up at the board trying to work as a 'giggle of idiots' wax poetic behind you. But surprisingly, those two guys would even chime in with their 2 cents when you think they weren't even paying attention. Talk about multi tasking... it's like multi-listening. They must have like 'Spidey' hearing senses.
On another note, the colour correct is on day 6 of 2. It looks SPECTACULAR. Sue (the colourist (not a racial thing)) and Kiarash, his Dee Oh Penis, Director of Photography, have been burning the midnight oil making the image pretty. They are darkening areas we want dark, and vice versa. Also, thru-out the film, there is a bloody character. And they had to darken the blood in each shot as time progressed and the blood 'cured'. We are also adding a subtle vignette on most of the images, giving a more eerie and darker feel. And sometimes, different shots from the same scene are photographed at different times of day, and maybe even different days. Hence the colour quality of these different shots has to be adjusted to match. Stuff like that. So EVERY shot has to be tweaked with hue, brightness, saturation, contrast and an added vignette. It's time consuming but well worth the trouble... particularly if I can be in a different province as it happens.
To all the poor bastards mentioned in this blog... (and Gibby, and that lucky SOB EJ too)
KEEP GIV'N 'ER EH!!!
I'm in Montreal working on a 2-Part MOW as the picture editor. Hence you are all gonna have to suffer less frequent blog entries.... I'm not gonna talk about this project on "THE CHAIR" blog as it just wouldn't be right. So unless people, either of you, comment or ask questions... the blog will slow down.... Perhaps take a month off...
Before I left Toronto, here is where it sat. We were on day 6 of 5 for the sound mix. We are still not done. We're VERY close and it all sounds MOST WicKeD. Thanks to the sound team.... Ronayne, Jean, David, Brent, Marilee, Randy, , Kathy-1, Mandy, Kathy-2, Steve, Joe and Dashen. Plenty of people to make a movie sound "MOST WicKeD"
But alas, this past Monday, we worked well into..... well Tuesday... and I was on a plane in a few hours. So instead of killing ourselves by rushing and possibly hurrying the quality, the quorum of 5 agreed to a happy finish when I come back.
Did I use quorum in the right context there. And by quorum, I mean the mixers, Eric and Kirk, and the Producers Doug and Michael. Overall, I think the mix may have gone smoother if ALEX TONG (seen here) was there. He is basically the backbone of Tattersall Sound and Picture. He supports the whole company. Wait, but then there's ED, and the company also rests on him, I guess Ed can be the ass then... but in a good way. Cuz really, we all need our asses. Sorry Ed... did that come out wrong? Ahhh, he doesn't read this anyway. Please admire a picture of Ed's cat, seen below. We tease because we love.Eric and Kirk were doing a wonderful job putting up with our tomfoolery. It must be a drag to sit up at the board trying to work as a 'giggle of idiots' wax poetic behind you. But surprisingly, those two guys would even chime in with their 2 cents when you think they weren't even paying attention. Talk about multi tasking... it's like multi-listening. They must have like 'Spidey' hearing senses.
On another note, the colour correct is on day 6 of 2. It looks SPECTACULAR. Sue (the colourist (not a racial thing)) and Kiarash, his Dee Oh Penis, Director of Photography, have been burning the midnight oil making the image pretty. They are darkening areas we want dark, and vice versa. Also, thru-out the film, there is a bloody character. And they had to darken the blood in each shot as time progressed and the blood 'cured'. We are also adding a subtle vignette on most of the images, giving a more eerie and darker feel. And sometimes, different shots from the same scene are photographed at different times of day, and maybe even different days. Hence the colour quality of these different shots has to be adjusted to match. Stuff like that. So EVERY shot has to be tweaked with hue, brightness, saturation, contrast and an added vignette. It's time consuming but well worth the trouble... particularly if I can be in a different province as it happens. To all the poor bastards mentioned in this blog... (and Gibby, and that lucky SOB EJ too)
KEEP GIV'N 'ER EH!!!
PEACE and AU REVOIR
posted by Brett Sullivan at 8:34 PM
2 Comments:
"SOUNDS" like you had some fun. Montreal huh? You are one lucky son of a winchester Brett my man. After all this burning of the midnight oil, have you thought about doing a vampire movie?
cmon, you can't tell me nothin's happening in montreal... nothing happening with the chair?
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