“Where are we now?” is a question I’ve been getting a lot lately. Well, we’re a week or two out from finishing the film altogether. We recorded the orchestral score all last week with our composer, Kenny Wood, and a 24 piece orchestra (which we recorded over a few days). Some instruments, such as the tuba and the harp, were recorded separately, others, like the 16 string instruments, were recorded together. Kenny and our music mixer are working on mixing all the music together as we speak. They’ll be done with that in a day or two. Ben Starkey, our colorist, is just about done doing the primary color correction, then I’ll go in this week and we’ll finesse it and make any creative decisions we might want to make.

Mark Williams and our sound design team are working on the sound. Mark’s finished editing the sound, our foley editor and artist will be recording the foley tomorrow (for those that don’t know, foley is the sound effects that are created in a recording studio to match the action on screen. You’ve probably seen something like it on DVD special features or if you’ve ever been somewhere like Universal Studios). Then, Alexey, our sound mixer, will mix all that together. Finally, we’ll sit down with the music, dialogue, foley and sound effects and have a final mix session, where we’ll decide how loud music should be versus effects, dialogue, etc...

Sounds like a lot, huh? It kind of is, but we should be all done with that in the next week or two. Then, we’ll get the title and end credits all ready, we’ll export the film and put it on DVD (which we’ll be having someone design the cover, as well as the poster for the film, etc...) and start sending it out to festivals. As some point during all of this, we’ll also be recording the vocals for the song that will go over the end credits.

After the film is totally done, at some point it will be available to purchase on this site (probably sometime in July... which will also be when we’ll probably start shipping the DVDs out to the people that donated $25 or more... but it could be August, so don’t hold me to that). Then, we ride the festival circuit for a while. Hopefully at some point in there, we’ll get representation and sell the feature script (which is 2 drafts in now, by the way), but that’s another story.

And that’s where we are now. We’re getting really close and really excited to show people the result of about a year and a half of hard work.