The Small Multiple

I was born there, lived there til I was 5, then moved to Frisco, but we were in Denton every other weekend almost through high school. My grandparents and all my aunts and uncles, best friend, etc. were there.

After high school it was it was Austin for undergrad, NY for 2 years, Seattle for grad school, New Orleans for 3 years and now NY again.

I usually tell people that Denton is where Rocky Horror Picture Show is set.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
I usually tell people that Denton is where Rocky Horror Picture Show is set.
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You're gonna give us a bad name! ;-)

Just finished listening to some of the music from Herman and the sound design from Brad. Man, it is really inspiring to see people who are so talented in the audible realm bring something to life! I know people say audio is 50% (or more) of a film. But I don't even think that does it justice!

If you watch a scene, be it romantic, horror, action whatever...and you watch it once without the sound on and once with...the "feeling" of the film is compounded! It doesn't just "add another 50%". It really makes or breaks a film!

Anyway, I was just excited about the work they are doing and wanted to share. :)
 
I'm glad that you liked the work so far. I told you that creating the sound for the Multiple entirely out of chicken clucks was a good idea! I'll see if I can add a few more instances of the Wilhelm scream in there. :)
 
I don't know Brad (I'm sure he's great), but I've had the privilege to have Herman score two of my films and he is awesome.

Knowing the script, seeing the stills, and hearing who's on the team, I am more psyched than ever to see this.
 
Couldn't agree more Brad. It is the "Chicken Cluck" approach that people will be emulating for years to come! :laugh:

A friend of mine told me the other day the opening of their song was the sound of a shoe...inside a sock...spinning in the dryer....seriously. :shocked:

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Does anyone know how I can change the Title of my thread? Right now it says "The Small Multiple - (Working Title)" and I want to update it.

I noticed the Fat Monster guys had updated theirs and I was wondering how to do the same. Do I have to ask a Mod to do it or can I change it as the author of the thread?

Thanks!
 
The beginning of the end (in a good way)

The beginning of the end (in a good way)

Hello everyone,

As many of you, I've been working to finish up this film by the deadline (along with the help of Brad and Herman).

Wanted to post some updates on the progress of the film. One of the things I enjoy most about other peoples films is watching it progress and seeing the steps they've taken.

So, I will be posting a series of images/explanations on how "The Small Multiple" came to be.

I think it will look something like:
General Editing Breakdown
Sound Design Process (with input from Brad Semenoff)
FX Shots Process
...and anything else I can think of! :)

If anyone has any specific questions/input/insight feel free to chime in.

To start with, here is the Final Cut Pro timeline of the edit:
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This is the locked edit. The first edit was around 10 minutes long. Eeek!!! :shocked:

You can see the audio mess that Brad received and had to work with! Working with a Composer and Sound Designer has been an interesting process. Being required to "lock" the edit in order to get it to them was a REALLY good discipline for me!

Normally I would spend WAY too much time tweaking something to death. Knowing I could not tweak once I sent it off really helped me to make solid decisions and just go with it.

After the locked edit was off to the Sound Designer I started working on the effects shots...
 
I think those shots in the timeline look beautiful. Love the depth of frame in both, the objects/people in the foreground, something I was really working on this time in mine.

Really looking forward to this.
 
Hey Jack,

Thanks for noticing that! I just wanted the title to simply be: The Small Multiple

(Get rid of the part that says, "(Working Title)")

If it could be bold that would be great!

I appreciate it!

Daniel
 
Honestly, all the grabs I see of your short, even the two in the timeline really make me want to see the finished product. I wouldn't say they look the coolest of all of the entries, but it's one of the very few entries I would say the grabs look very cool but not over stylized. A hard line to walk.
 
Hey Alex (I saw it on your website...I'm not stalking you, I promise!),

First of all, I'm really impressed by the number of films you have done! Keep it up man!

Thanks for the comments on the film. It is definitely not the "coolest looking" as you said. :) I totally agree in that sense! The last film I did was more in that category...big sets, big locations, epic shots etc.

Unfortunately, I was not really pleased with the acting...or the story for that matter. So in this film I really wanted to focus more on the quality of the acting as well as the telling of the story. Hopefully both will be at a level that grabs the viewers attention.

I'll be posting a few grabs for one of the effects shots in the film...probably later today. So check back!

Thanks man!

Daniel
 
In the interest of sharing…

In the interest of sharing…

Since we're sharing screenshots, I thought that I'd share a couple of mine.

The first is a screenshot of my Pro Tools Dialog edit session for "The Small Multiple." The top 8 tracks are the original OMF that Daniel gave me for the locked picture. Below that are the room tones that were recorded on set. The rest are the Dialog, production FX, VO and tracks that I don't want playing in the final mix but don't want to get rid of.

This next screenshot is my Pro Tools Backgrounds and Sound FX edit session for "The Small Multiple."

The top green(ish) tracks are the backgrounds and the bottom red tracks are the sound FX. As you can see in the screenshot, there are a fairly large amount of sound fx, especially about 3/4 of the way through the movie (hmm… I wonder what's going on there?). Anyway, I can't really talk about the sound design process without revealing too much about the film. I can at least say that I tried to make it big when it needs to be big, subtle when the story calls for that, and I try to work with Herman's score so that we're not competing.

I think that it's worked out well and I can't wait to hear what people think about the film.
 
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For the gigantic file transfers Brad was generous enough to set up a shared FTP for us to upload/download from. It worked beautifully! It helps that the finished film is only 6-minutes long....

I wanted to repost his pics embedded in the thread in case there are people like me who are sometimes too lazy to download/open documents! :D (It really showcases how much time/effort Brad has put into this project)

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pia12254 said:
For the gigantic file transfers Brad was generous enough to set up a shared FTP for us to upload/download from.
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I don't know if it was generosity but rather guilt. I'm a bit of a pain and I kept asking Daniel for different files (can I have the alts for this line, can you upload the new picture, got any free software that I can have, etc.) so it would have cost him too much and taken too long to Fed Ex everything to me.
 
How big were your files? How many pieces did you break the film into?

joe and I shared files too, but our uncompressed film was like 32 gigs. Not viable via FTP.
 
32 Gigs!! Wow!! I think altogether Daniel gave me about 2 Gigs worth of stuff. I'd email him stereo MP3s as demoes of the work in progress and I'll give him 48khz, 24 bit audio files for the final, but that won't be too big of a file size. He originally posted an H.264 Quicktime for me to work off of and the OMF was about 700 MB. OF course for audio I don't need the absolute best picture quality, I just need to see it.
 
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