"Corrado" - A production blog

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taormina said:
I never did mention this.

A Very Large Pussy (Pseudonym - name withheld to protect the parties involved) was hired on to do the part of Tommaso, which ultimately went to Frank Stallone. I sent him a deal memo which he never signed, there was always an excuse from him or his agent. He was busy, they lost the file, it would be done next week. blah blah. Then he put pressure on me to get him his airfare, which I did, to the tune of $800 worth of flights.

He acted like all was well, and truly wanted to be part of the picture. About two weeks before he was to fly out, he called and left a voice mail saying he was quitting the production because he didn't want to be in the same film as Joe Gannascoli.

I phone him up and asked what the situation was...apparently the two of them had gotten into some sort of fight.....I told him he wasn't even in the same scenes as Joe, that Joe was to fly out before he was even IN town.....nothing could convince him to be in the same movie as Joe Gannascoli - which seemed odd to me since it was Joe who originally recommended him and gave me his number!

Anyways, I told him he was reneging on his commitment, that we had airfare booked, and I wanted the money back. He then got threatening with a bunch of his goombah crap....as if he's a real gangster, and I let it go. He was a real douche bag.

In any case, Stallone replaced him.
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Thanks for telling us what happened. It sounds like he is very unprofessional. If he didn't want to be in your movie (the reason he told you is really lame to me) at least he should have returned the money for the airfare, that's only fair.

But I'm sure it worked out better with Frank Stallone.

When I make films with those "professional" actors I do hope I don't have to face something like this...
 
taormina said:
Well the latest is that Kent is able to open the .omf and all the data appears to be there!!!! The bad news is the translation program really does not like working with MXFs so I need to pull all the sound data off of the DVD RAMs my mixer gave me. It's going to take a few more days but hey, a ton of bitching multichannel audio always helps.

Thanks much to Wardo for that insightful tip - that little program saved the day!

While I'm at it, I thought I's post Kent's bio. I've worked with him before and he's a great help and resource to me in all areas Audio.

http://www.soundesign.org/company/kbio.html
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It was the least I could do considering the knowledge I have gained from your thread. I will keep Kent's info handy.

Thanks..
Wadro
AKA Wade Harrington
www.TwoPeppers.tv
 
taormina said:
I never did mention this.

A Very Large Pussy (Pseudonym - name withheld to protect the parties involved) was hired on to do the part of Tommaso, which ultimately went to Frank Stallone. I sent him a deal memo which he never signed, there was always an excuse from him or his agent. He was busy, they lost the file, it would be done next week. blah blah. Then he put pressure on me to get him his airfare, which I did, to the tune of $800 worth of flights.
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I think I know what actor you are talking about. I think I'll just walk away.
 
taormina said:
Check out the site....the media page is now up, and I'm hosting Shawneous's diligent compilation of this blog in .pdf format, among other things.

www.taorminafilms.com
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Nice Adam! I like that you have the Blogs condensed for easy reading, that's a very clever thing to do. You've been busy, well done!

One suggestion about the gallery section. Sort your images, and put your 12 most powerful images on that first page. Preferably ones with as many familiar names/faces as possible. Then on page two, the next 12. It's a bit like a demo reel in that respect, and you always want your best work seen first. There are some redundant photos that you could lose where content is the same, but the angle is different and the composition isn't quite as good. 4 pages of great photos is better than 7 pages of great and mediocre mixed together.

Cheers!

Chris
 
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djinjis said:
how about the soundtrack?
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Well at this point the composer is working on scoring the picture, and since Wadro found me that amazing program, there is hope for an easier, much easier post audio mix.

I am working to sync the Sound Mixer's audio with the picture and discarding the audio portion of the .mxf.

Recall that I hired a sound mixer who had all of his own (amazing) equipment, and recorded the entire movie on DVD RAMs, one per day in the form of .wav files numbered by scene and take. He also routed a feed back to the camera, so we captured sync sound through the HVX...the audio was embedded in the .mxf.

I cut the move together using the camera sound for simplicity's sake, but I cannot export the .mxf audio properly through any of these programs...they like .wav files.

So now I'm going back and replacing it with the much fuller and better sounding multi track audio from the DVDs. It's not hard at all, only time consuming.

It's quite easy to do in vegas...I import the .wav file, line it up below the old .mxf audio, match the curves, listen to make sure there is no echo (which would mean the audio is off) and then delete the old .mxf audio portion.

Kent asked me to get the sound close to sync and he would take it from there...I am bang on. Matching the curves frame by frame is dead accurate - the replay is flawless.

I started yesterday afternoon....as of this morning I've done a third of the movie. When I'm done Kent gets it and works his magic.
 
taormina said:
Well at this point the composer is working on scoring the picture, and since Wadro found me that amazing program, there is hope for an easier, much easier post audio mix.

I am working to sync the Sound Mixer's audio with the picture and discarding the audio portion of the .mxf.

Recall that I hired a sound mixer who had all of his own (amazing) equipment, and recorded the entire movie on DVD RAMs, one per day in the form of .wav files numbered by scene and take. He also routed a feed back to the camera, so we captured sync sound through the HVX...the audio was embedded in the .mxf.

I cut the move together using the camera sound for simplicity's sake, but I cannot export the .mxf audio properly through any of these programs...they like .wav files.

So now I'm going back and replacing it with the much fuller and better sounding multi track audio from the DVDs. It's not hard at all, only time consuming.

It's quite easy to do in vegas...I import the .wav file, line it up below the old .mxf audio, match the curves, listen to make sure there is no echo (which would mean the audio is off) and then delete the old .mxf audio portion.

Kent asked me to get the sound close to sync and he would take it from there...I am bang on. Matching the curves frame by frame is dead accurate - the replay is flawless.

I started yesterday afternoon....as of this morning I've done a third of the movie. When I'm done Kent gets it and works his magic.
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EXACTLY what I had to go through doing... and dude... a third done already? You're the man! Or else you have hardly any dialog in the movie
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haha
 
I've actually got lots of dialog...did you do it the way I did it? Because if you have the old audio you simply sync the new with the old....easy to do when matching the waveform with the frame.


Plus Vegas seems to have a "snap" feature similar to autocad where you get the audio close and it snaps it together perfectly....hard to explain, but I am doing it by waveform. If you then play the two clips together and there is NO ECHO whatsover you're bang on. An Echo suggests time delay meaning the two audio streams are off.

Trying to sync picture with audio where there previously was no audio would be onerous...timecode and slates for that job.
 
I did it the same way you're doing it, but it took me longer... also, I had to sync the file, then I used the timecode of the new file to sync the rest of the tracks (we usually recorded 3-4 tracks from different sources)
 
Well that's the difference then...I have four recorded tracks throughout the film and as many as eight from some parts of the movie.

The difference is that the way my tracks are imported, I only need to sync one track....the others are automatically synced to the first one like magic!
 
visugeek said:
Nice Adam! I like that you have the Blogs condensed for easy reading, that's a very clever thing to do. You've been busy, well done!

One suggestion about the gallery section. Sort your images, and put your 12 most powerful images on that first page. Preferably ones with as many familiar names/faces as possible. Then on page two, the next 12. It's a bit like a demo reel in that respect, and you always want your best work seen first. There are some redundant photos that you could lose where content is the same, but the angle is different and the composition isn't quite as good. 4 pages of great photos is better than 7 pages of great and mediocre mixed together.

Cheers!

Chris
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I would even go so far as to cut them down to one page, having pages and pages of behind the scene photos makes this feel like a low budget project. Also it might be worth grading the photos darker and more close to what the actual film will look like.
 
taormina said:
Well that's the difference then...I have four recorded tracks throughout the film and as many as eight from some parts of the movie.

The difference is that the way my tracks are imported, I only need to sync one track....the others are automatically synced to the first one like magic!
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Nice!

Yeah, I searched forever to find a way to do that, but never could... maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough.
 
HVX2006 said:
I would even go so far as to cut them down to one page, having pages and pages of behind the scene photos makes this feel like a low budget project. Also it might be worth grading the photos darker and more close to what the actual film will look like.
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Nope, sorry, they ARE BTS photos, not screen shots.
 
taormina said:
Well that's the difference then...I have four recorded tracks throughout the film and as many as eight from some parts of the movie.

The difference is that the way my tracks are imported, I only need to sync one track....the others are automatically synced to the first one like magic!
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Thats called a polyphonic wav.
multiple tracks of audio tied together as one.
Simpliest ex: a stereo track. In reality its 2 mono's but it's only one file.

The other way of delivering audio is monophonic where every track would have been its own file.

Poly's are for the most part the way you deliver these days.


Have you been keeping track of which takes you used for each cut?
labeled in vegas perhaps?

I'd hate to have to sift through 8 takes of an angle to figure out which track to use.

Glad its working out for ya though.
I came to this thread very late so I look forward to seeing a trailer or flick.

Future reference: if anyone is doing double system. Treat your video like film, meaning sync everything before you edit the first moment in the movie.
 
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