Final steps.

Yes, last weekend we did the final sound design and mixin for the movie. I must say, I didn´t have a nice weekend at Kotka, just chilling and doing some sounds. No. On friday we recorded some final sounds for the film, and sat in Arttus apartment ´till 00.00 a.m. There was a lot to do and we did some desperate choices there. On saturday arttu moved the project and files to the studio of Kotka citytheater, where we on sunday did the mixing. Sunday was a hard day, we struggled with the fact that there wasn´t just enough sounds recorded for the movie. Especially for the party scene, there was no sound.
At around nine o´clock in the evening we stopped and thought that this was it. I drove home (to my parents place ) and ate a bit and drove back to Helsinki. There I put the sound to avid, where I found out that there was something wrong with it. Arttu told me that he forgot to normalize the track, I tried to do it put it didn´t help. Sound were missing, changes in the sound and so on. I was shocked. I looked at the film and though "this supposed to be the finished film..this is shit! I must burn everything and cancel the premiere!" I was catatonic. Somehow I fell asleep and in the morning I took the tape with me and started to digitize it..but then I called to arttu and told him that things must be done again. Arttu was ready to do the changes and did the whole monday things to the track. By the way, while I digitized the material, this one guy who works at our school "Kössi" looked at the first scene and said "Is this filmed in Ruisrock, in year 1967?" I looked at him and didn´t know what to say but "No.." then he just replied "well, it looked like that back then. those kind of long haired weirdos all around"
At thispoint I must tell you, I ordered a MacBookPro from apple.fi, the have a home delivery service. On friday when I was at arttus place the delivery guy phoned and wondered if I would be home. Well I wasn´t and told him that on monday after 4 p.m. would be nice. On monday another guy called at around 10 a.m. and asked if he could deliver tha package to me. I said no and was a bit frustradet cause I knew that I wouldn´t be home in the afternoon. Then I asked the guy if he could deliver the computer to my school, and he did! How nice! so now I have a new computer! how cool is that!
So anyway after school I drove back to Karhula, to Arttus place, where we checked the audiottrack. Then I went to my parents place, and showed them the posters, (which have also arrived!) 3 posters were clued together from one part of the poster, and the color ripped of from the surface, Im in the middle of an e-mail conversation what should be done about the fact.
On friday this guy contacted me, about an sportstraining video for some sports thingie. They said that they have a good offer, but the price is 6000 euros, so they are asking for other people for the job. ! so I said that I am interested, but just not sure how much work it would include. Put im sure that it isn´t so big thing that I couldn´t do it for, lets say a 1500 euros. great!
Well see what happens.
Now I am at the dvd producin place at our school. I have already digitized the film for 2 times, but something has gone wrong each time. Lets see if I am able to finish the dvd today. If I do finish it, Ill go and buy some sparkling wine! Then I´ll send the dvd to the printing place on thursday trough somekind of fastmail! yeah!
But today I thought all the hours I have spend on making this shortfilm. It sickens me. But, what else is there to do? Musicvideos maybe? I don´t know. I have done other things too, but all the things, chestbuttons, posters and this dvd printing thingie and the premiere is just something to nibble on cause I´ve done this thing..this shortfilm. The shortfilm is almost secondary now. And that is terribly wrong. Well, I could not have done anything about the shortfilm while it was at arttus hands, so maybe I just passed the time by doing all this crap material around the shortfilm..
But, today might be the final day!