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Tropfest Film Update
The amazing thing about computers these days it that I pretty much had the project cut and sound psted in 48 hours. So we shot it on Friday, I assembled it on Saturday morning, went and played baseball, did a fine cut on Saturday night and then did the sound post-production, music and credits on Sunday. All largely painless compared to the weeks of toiling that my previous ultra-short film, 'Pizza Driver' took back in '95-'96. By Thursday, I had an approval for the whole damn thing from the Producer and that was that.
Sure it wasn't on 'proper film' (as film snobs would prefer), but the product was done in the most bloodless, painless way.

Controlling the means of production is going to change film-making forever. In the olden days you'd think up an idea and say, "Okay, let's see if we can raise money to develop it." In the future, people are going to say, "Okay, let's go make it."
This is so good. If you have not been through the development hell and the barrage of idiotic questions people ask, you don't know how good it is to be able to say, "Worse comes to worse, we'll still make it on ultra-low budget."

Key Psycho Update
Sam is working on the dialogue tracks, Terry P is working on sound effects and Sandy is assisting, but may finish up doing the mix. Yesterday, I went and recorded some baseball into glove sounds with Terry P for the punching sounds.
Last I spoke to jim, he's still beavering away composing music.
From what I can gather from my dedicated sound folk, the project is steadily moving along the sound post-production process. By our modified schedule, we're still aiming for a late January finish.

Producer Brenden is cutting a trailer to be sent out to festivals. He's doing it in the 1940s style. This ought to be fun.

- Art Neuro