Range and Readings

Greetings, one and all! As predicted, we did get the Foley session done at the start of the blog week. While the integration of the audio from that day was fairly straightforward, the video we captured was less so, as there was some challenge getting the colors to match what we shot a couple years ago, despite matching camera settings as accurately as possible.

But beyond that, we worked on more edit and pacing revisions, including using one of the perks of digital recording: The fact that Gigabytes are relatively cheap, so you have lots of reaction footage from when the character isn’t talking to better sell a moment. My personal favorite was using a reaction from earlier in the conversation to make a guard look even more like a sleazy used car salesman than he already did.

Sunday the team met and ran a drill session with spears, followed by a free form session where they tried a series of increasingly interesting weapons...

After that, things stepped down a bit, and our more dramatically inclined team members read for parts in our summer short.

It’s a fair bit more humorously inclined than usual, but it seemed like the right tone, especially for the actors in question. Some revisions are in order, but I look forward to seeing how it pans out.

Well, that’s about all for this week. Until next time!