The Begining

This week I finally started my recording sessions for the ADR for my capstone project. I spent most of the week getting ready for the recording session on Thursday night. There were several things I had to do in order to get ready for this. First of all I had to schedule all of the talent for the record. The characters with speaking lines in the movies are: Captain Tomorrow, Reese Ridgeback, Lamar, Viper, The Chief, Renee, Russian drug dealer #1, lady cop, young cop #1, and Henchman. The first obstacle I faced was coordinating time slots for all of these people. I also didn't realize quite how long the process would take, and as such slightly over booked the recording session. For example, the movie is about 25 minutes long, and much of that is action sequences, with little to no dialogue, and as such I had planned that Captain Tomorrow, (the main character, and character with the most speaking lines), would take about an hour. And I thought that would be a generous amount of time, and I would have a little extra time afterwords to start picking out takes and syncing dialogue. It ended up taking over two hours to get his part done. Despite this set back I still finished recording all of the characters I had planned to record last night, with 1 exception. So as of this moment, the chief, lady cop, young cop #1, Russian drug dealer #1, Lamar, and Captain Tomorrow are finished with their lines. This leaves Reese, Viper, the henchmen and Renee. Viper, the henchmen, and Reese should be done by this weekend. Renee is hard to get a hold of and I need to get her to commit to a time to record her lines. She only has 2 scenes, and doesn't say much, so I am not too worried about getting her lines done.

I also did a fair amount of work on my paper in the form of research. I have 6 books from the library and another on its way and have spent a great deal of time reading and taking copious notes on them. My plan for the paper has deviated slightly. I have decided to pick a composer from each of the historical eras of film to focus on in each heading for my paper instead of just doing a single heading highlighting several composers from various generations. By focusing on a single composer from each era, I can illustrate points through real examples. An example of this is in my section on silent film music, as I am recounting the history of silent film i will use the work and techniques of Edmund Meisel to illustrate my points with concrete examples and or the 1035-1950 section I will focus on composer Max Steiner's work ect. All in all I am ready to start flushing out my notes and writing my paper.