raindrops are falling on my head

Clearly, raindrops are now falling outside Eve's window. Or is it a mish-mash of snow and rain? No one really knows with the swedish weather. After all isn't that how death feels like, like rain? 

sky replacement

When Eve dreams, she's definitely not in Kansas anymore! Today's work: sky replacement in AE.

bits and pieces

The production of This Too Shall Pass has admittedly come to a halt at the moment. There are some shooting dates coming up, but the time is limited and the crew's availability, and cast, as well. Meanwhile composers and dancers are working on music and choreographies. Certain scenes get a completely new face with some music, I had a sample song by my main composer Berni Law which is melancholic, piano which builds up and become a dramatic almost action-packed angsty explosion, which, when put as backdrop for the cemetery scene, was quite an interesting viewing.

On another note I'm very excited to work with a fellow swedish student from the Screen Academy, who'll be my DoP for the scenes to be shot here. One of our locations is a salt lake outside of Rockingham, which I'm very excited to have discovered.

Meanwhile, here's just a little preview of a scene and how it works out with the new voices for the characters. All dialogue in the film has been replaced with ADR of Australian actors, which is another time-consuming process. On top of that we've had the most mysterious issues with Soundtrack Pro and the computers in the voice-over suites and how they decide to distribute the saved files and the super-sexy robotic tone recorded through the microphones unless recorded in mono.

auditions

Auditions are piling up. One week-end, seventeen auditions. After the workshop with Nadia Tass back in Melbourne I have decided to use the audition as a screen/camera test and record the whole audition as well. Once two girls are picked (the one for the dream alter-ego of Eve and  one for Celia's voice) its time to put the post-production wagon behind and get back into production again!

scene ten

Scene ten - check. Scene eleven - check. Scene twelve - under progress.

Oh, don't you worry! The pants... will stay on!

While my access card is sorted out, allowing me access to the editing suites, studio, building 3 & 6 after hours and the postgrad room, I work on some more editing at home on the laptop. Not the ideal screen or built in audio, but it works. Today I'm putting together the second scene which is when Celia arrives and talks frantically about everything and nothing. I have parts of this scene re-shot at night-time, but to start with I'm cutting together a daylight-to-dusk time of the day before attempting putting together an evening scene. To match the continuity on that might take more time than expected... Meanwhile, I'm marveling at the art-direction and am quite happy with how the plasma got replaced by the budget-choice - a newspaper.

In one way the post-production phase has started. I have 60-65% of the film covered, what remains now are the dream sequences. For that I need new actors - more specifically a new girl to play the dream-version of Eve. I met up with two 3rd year students from WAAPA, but I have a feeling (since they haven't gotten back to me yet) that I'll have to continue my search.

It also hit me that I need to make up my mind about what sort of soundtrack I intend to have. On top of finding a composer to co-work with, I need a sound engineer/designer which hopefully will kick ass when coming to the ADR-phase. The guy I had in mind had relocated to Melbourne. Meanwhile, I'm hoping to get a rough cut together by the end of next week with what I've got.