Journal week - day 2

Monday November 5, 2007
10:10pm

Today was a pretty fun day. I dunno, we didn't really get a whole lot of editing done for thd day. Mom and I had thrown 3 minutes worth of pictures raw down onto the timeline yesterday at the end of the day and did no editing of any kind, just stock photos down on the timeline. So, Mom and I worked and got all the pictures from there to the end all polished with moves, and screen safe, and added the gaussian blur where needed. We finished that section with the moves that we felt were right, and then we ended up having to leave to go to Andrew's house (Bro. Flint) for the re-recording session for the revised script portions. The script was great except for the portions that needed to be changed after advisory from the church about the material that we could and couldn't use. We ended up revising the script by paraphrasing certain paragraphs, adding new ones and taking out other old ones. So the revisions and all the recording/editing and even a few minutes to hear a fun song that Andrew is working on right now called "Dear John" was 4 hours at his house. We left our house around 5 to 4 or so. and got to his about 4:05-4:10 or so. We got set up, he started the project and got everything set, and begun the recording. It was a fun session tonight. It didn't take as long just because it was only the revised portions of the script rather than the entire thing. All the recording time collectively I think was about twenty five to thirty minutes or so. So it wasn't that bad. We had a couple takes, naturally, that we had to do re-takes a few times but nothing overly repetetive...except the last paragraph of the entire script. They had to re-do it about 10 times, because the way that Dad said one sentence in the script was just so funny, and it was really hard if not impossible not to laugh when you thought about it. It was quite entertaining. Mom and Andrew and Dad and I were all bursting out laughing, till Mom ended up leaving the room so that we could finish the take and get it done! It was quite the paragraph take, but alas, enjoyable to witness.

Aaaaanyway, Andrew finished the recording after we finally go enough sense to calm down and not think about Dad and the way that he said that line so many times over and over. We worked through it and Andrew finished the recording and began the editing process. It was enjoyable for us to both be there when he was doing the editing. I liked being able to hang out with him while he worked his magic with all his toys. It's pretty awesome! I had a lot of fun. We cleaned up the audio with him and got all the pops, and mouth noises, and clicks and ticks and everything. (there were a few that were annoying and were mixed right in with the rest of a word and we ended up having to just turn them down or remove them by adjusting the gain, rather than selecting and removing them) We finished that and then ran the EQ'ing that we needed to in order to get it to match the mixing, the effects, and the levels and such that he had done on the re-mastered version of the initial script recording that he gave us a new copy of. (The first one that we recorded the first time, was really heavy on the low end, so he remixed it and gave a new version to us)

So ya, we finished that and did all the other fun things we needed to do to it before exporting and saving it, and then we exported, saved and burned it to take home. He then showed us Dear John. This is a song he's been working on with his wife. It's really good! It's got a great like techno'y feel behind it, and it's mormon standards too! I'm gonna help him make a music video for it and we're going to see if we can find a way to market it on Meridian somehow maybe, I dunno. Just some fun thoughts he's/we've been tossing around.

Sooooo...ya, then I actually got a text from Carly while I was there reminding me about FHE and kindly asking me where I was. It read: 'where are you? slacker' lol. I was like oooooohhh!! So Mom and Dad and I left, and got me over to FHE where they dropped me off and I got a ride home from Colin afterwards. I got over to Carly's house and they were playing mafia. There was Carly, Colin, Niel, Leslie, Rebecca, Anne, and Nate. (Nate I didn't know and Rebecca I didn't recognize either. I just met Leslie on Sunday and we were just officially introduced tonight, while at FHE)

Sooo, we played a round of mafia then watched the Annandale Stake YSA Video that was made by the YSA's to enter in the YSA Stake Film Festival (which has it's Emmy Awards night on Saturday for a party and dance at a Marriot Hotel in D.C.) It should be a fun evening! They're having red carpets, and prized and food and a dance afterward for everyone to mix and mingle at, it should be quite fun! I'm excited!

Well, I am tired and getting a bit of a headache from laying in bed at this angle, and I'm beginning to have trouble breathing, which again is normal, at this angle whenever I'm laying down. So, I'm going to bed! I've completed my entry for the day and I'm going to sleep now. Night!