It’s a Wrap!

NeoZAZ wrapped up primary shooting on our latest film project, “Fan Film: The Movie” (tentative title, but that’ll probably be what it’s called). It was a marathon of Indie Guerilla film making – 23 hours over 2 and half days resulting in 5 hour and 20 minutes of great footage. All with the help of 6 friends of ours with a lot of enthusiasm, patience, and trust in that Dave and I knew what we were doing.

With everyone’s help we got everything that we wanted, and more. We even had time for a photo session to make a kick-ass poster for the project.

It was a lot of fun to film and should be just as much fun to put together.

I’d once again like to thank everyone that gave up their whole weekend – both day and night – to get this done. So thanks once again to Karen, Dave, Chris, Gregg, John and Sunday, as I might have mentioned, I truly appreciate your help on this project and can’t wait to put all the pieces together.

There’s more to say, but I unfortunately have to leave the state on business tomorrow and should probably get some sleep. Once Gregg can get me a copy of the production shots, that’ll jar some memories and stories to share.

Sound Off

Irony can be so ironic sometimes. As I mentioned here, one of the lessons I learned doing film work is “always do a sound check”. I went on to say that due to my equipment, I cannot monitor the sound as it’s being recorded, so I had to record a bit, rewind, and play it back.

Well, through the camera’s speakers, it sounded fine, but once I got home and imported all the video, I found out that the one of the mic cable connections was not connected completely, as only the left channel recorded. (That’s not entirely true – the right channel did pop in and out occasionally very noisily.)

So, the new lesson learned is: When doing a cheap-ass sound check, make sure to use headphones so you can tell if the mic is plugged in all the way. Even better, get a field mixer with monitor output.

I should be able to fix it by duplicating the audio in the right channel with GarageBand or Fission, but it just makes it that much more work, and now I really have to worry about audio sync.