Foul Water, Fiery Serpent update
We’re getting closer and closer to finishing up the film. Ron Anderson did a tremendous job with the Color Grade, particularly some really REALLY difficult scenes. He just shows how far I still have to go as a Colorist. I’m pretty good, but man, nothing compares to 30 years of experience doing nothing but color. WOW! I will post some images when I’m allowed to show some before / after.
Sound design from Patrick Belden just simply ROCKS! If you watch “Good Eats” on the Food Network, you know his work, he’s been the sound designer for every episode of the series. He’s also one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet with two super great dogs that hang out in the studio. Over the course of the edit, we used placeholder music to give Patrick an idea of what were looking for. He took those concepts and came up with what we think is a very unique soundtrack for an African based film. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything quite like what he’s created for this type of film.
At this point we are really tweaking the graphics. Lots of a super fine tuning to make sure we’re all happy with the way they look and work with the final image.
Unexpectedly we also are making an edit for timing. This can be pretty tricky once the sound design is essentially completed. So the first thing I did was to call Patrick to describe what we were going to do and asked for his guidance to ensure we can do this in the most painless way possible. If I simply make the edits in the timeline and don’t keep track of what I’m doing, it can create a huge headache for Patrick on the sound design. I ended up removing about 35 seconds of the film and made a paper EDL for Patrick. Very specific timecodes of what was removed, at what time on the timeline, and exactly where it was moved to. Then I provide a quicktime movie that he can use for visual reference. It should all work out that we can pull all the audio up and not cause too much of an issue.
So we’re getting there. A long road since March of 2009 when we started Post on the feature and June 2006 when we delivered the short version of the story to The Carter Center. Definitely keep your eye on the film’s website as it will be rolling out to film festivals worldwide in the near future. I’ll update you guys as information becomes available!
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