After a meeting the other day with both satsuma and guardian, Satsuma have sent me their latest up to date rough cut, this gives me just over a week to complete the post-production process, the film itself is still in it’s very rough stages, most of the scenes still haven’t been fully drawn, so it’s going to take me a fair bit longer than anticipated the synchronise the sound with the visuals, or the visuals that should be there, but arn’t. For this I’m going to have to use the cue sheet that the team gave me to place all the correct sounds in their respected places. In this stage it’s going to mean more creative control on my end, I can shape and form the environments that you should see fully on screen with sound. This takes the edge off a little bit as there’s not actually that much to make sure in synchronised perfectly at this stage except from the main character and his wife.
Most of the work that I can do on this project is constructing the atmosphere within sound, such as the park and the cafe.
I think at this late a stage in the project as I stated in the contract between myself and Satsuma that the final cut should be no later than the 25th April due to time constraints, but I may have been a bit naive, although with the project in this limited amount doesn’t really allow me much to do that is instantly noticeable and can be graded accordingly.
I will continue to construct the post sound and synchronise it to whats on screen and place other sound effects accordingly to whats stated in the Cue sheet.
The music however has been composed to a different edit that I was given, which is rather annoying as it means the music’s timing needs altering, as the timings have changed within the film. Now that the music is composed, I’m going to edit the music within pro tools so that it fit correctly with the up to date rough cut… this how ever will leave the music sounding rather ‘choppy’ so I”m going to have to mix it within pro tools with the use of automation to blend it in with the SFX so that it flows nicely and sounds clean.
It would have been a lot easier to compose the piece to the rough cut, but this was not possible due to all the cue’s for the changes in music on screen we’re not yet drawn … so knew I was going into run into some timing issues, but I believe I can overcome this issue in the mixing process.