Sound spotting

Just finished a two hour music spotting session with Geoff, the films composer.  We went through the film scene-by-scene and discussed emotional beats, story points and structure.  I really enjoy the creative process and working with Geoff is always good.  Interestingly we are working over Skype, as he is in Sydney and I am in Perth.  So long as you are working off the same files, with timecode, it is really easy to communicate and get your ideas across.

Sound spotting session has be organised for Wednesday morning and I am really looking forward to that.  We're getting close!

Larson Studios

David will be working the post sound on Kanowna at Larson Studios in Hollywood.  The gang at Larson's are highly regarded and have won around 20 Emmy's and 1 Oscar between them.  So there is a lot of knowledge and talent around the place.  I visited there when I was last in LA and they were really friendly and accommodating. 

It's mad that our little film from Perth, Australia will be mixing there, but it's exciting and I know it will lift the film to another level just by having professionals of this level involved with the film.

Kanowna (short film). Sound Post begins!

Due to a little delay we are about to go into Post Sound and Music.  LA based, Emmy nominated Sound Editor David Raines, will be leading his team for the post sound on Kanowna.  We are really excited to have David involved in the film.  His involvement eventuated when David offered to work on the project during a telephone conversation with Kanowna's Director, Chris Richards-Scully. 

The final mix is scheduled for March 5, so keep watching for updates and a few surprises.

Kanowna poster

Hello everyone and sorry for the lack of posts of late, we have been very busy and will be adding more to the blog very soon.  Here is a draft of the Kanowna film poster, Michael and I have already made suggestions for alterations to the designer, but I thought it would be nice for you all to see it anyway.

We are discussing the colour of the title's font and will be posting the options for your feedback in a future post.  If you have any comments about the poster please let us know, we'd love to hear from you.

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Kanowna website

I've been busily working on the Kanowna website, which is looking pretty funky and almost ready to go live.  Unfortunately you will all have to wait until the film is finished, before we advertise, but when we are finally ready to 'go live', we'll need everyone's help to get the web address out to everyone they know and encourage them to get it out to everyone that they know and so on...

For now, we'll keep modifying the content and wait until the official date.

The package is in the mail

Two big deadlines on the same day!  Always happens this way doesn't it?

Anyway, they weren't for the same project and Michael had to do most of the work in the final sprint to get the Screen Australia submission into the mail.

Writing a synopsis and director's statement post filming of the film was a really strange and annoying experience.  We've shot the film and just need help financing the post production, can't we just show them the film, they'll love it and want to support us? ... nice try.

Post production continues to move forward and we will finish Kanowna regardless.