Dubbing and trimming and organising and worrying
Happy New Year!
In the first week of the month Craig Holroyd came round the record some guitar for the soundtrack. I’ve ended up only using parts of it, but we have an awesome opening track and had (read further down) an awesome end credits track.
Last Sunday I met up with Matt, Nathan and Dom to do some dubbing work for the film. I hadn’t seen Dom since the wrap party but we only had a few minutes to record his lines in town before he had to leave. Matt and Nathan came over to my house and recorded their bits and got a quick glimpse at how the film is panning out. I’ve edited in most of the dubs now and they sound okay, although I may just revert to correcting the original recordings (removing hums is a nightmare!) We attempted to record the vocals for the end credits song but a mixture of lack of time and tiredness meant I decided we should just give up. I’ll be using the original end credits song I wanted to use. It’s copyrighted and I emailed the record label, who didn’t reply. If they haven’t even read the email I can’t see them finding out about the film so I’ll just risk using the song.
I am still trimming and snipping the film to make it perfect. I have a huge, long list of problems to fix, so that’s taking a while. The good news is that the Leeds Young Film-Makers Competition replied to tell me that I can still enter if I get them the film ASAP. Hopefully I’ll have a 10 minute segment of the film fully completed before the end of the week to send to them.
I’m also in talks, and have been for a few weeks, with the National Media Museum in Bradford to organise a premiere for the film. I had contacted a few other cinemas but the NMM is definitely the most prestigious, and has a lovely cinema. I’m trying to find a date in late February when we can hold a premiere, selling tickets to friends, family etc.
Now, back to work.
