Status Quo

Progress on episode is, finally, going very well. Aside from a few minor shots, potentially redoing a short scene, and the "battle scene" (which, if you didn't know, we still need some people to volunteer to help us out over X-Box Live, our gamer tags Burn the Shire (Ryan) and The Revengerer (me); just let us know that you want to help out with Marooned), the bulk of the filming is done. 11 is probably not going to be as long as I originally thought it was going to be, but it will either be tied with 9 or just a little bit longer (it's at 11:21 with a few missing shots and without the battle scene, which will be between 1 and 3 minutes), meaning it'll have to be split up into 2 parts again. I was going to post some videos about some weird glitches in Halo 3 (there's a few too many), but at the moment don't really have any way of doing that. We might do a video blog someday or something, though it's really unimportant. That's about it. Everyone have a good Christmas (and for the record, Santa Clause and all his reindeer were not there when Jesus was born, so in reality, they have nothing to do with Christmas).

Hi

Again, I'm going to apologize for the wait. I'm trying to properly balance my different projects. Sadly, this one has taken the back seat a couple times. My other project, The Restitution, consists of two parts right now: record a CD, and get a band together. Once the preparation stage is over in polishing the songs that will be going on the album (and finishing the two that aren't done yet), I'll have more time to devote to editing and such. Until then, I'll have to wrestle between the two.

I'm still working on editing, though, so don't think I've completely neglected it. We still have a couple scenes to film, so even when I'm done here, there's a bit more work to be done. I'm almost done getting together what's filmed, so there is some progress being made. Other than that, there really isn't anything at this point. So ... I'll leave you with that.

-PLAYLIST-

Thursday - A City by the Light Divided
Copeland - You are My Sunshine
August Burns Red - Messenger
Deftones

Remix the mix!

In a somewhat trifle observation, I realized I didn't like the mix of our little intro jingle. So, I decided to literally remix it. Now, I'm not talking about your typical "remix," which isn't as much a remix as a complete alteration of the song (usually going from pop rock to techno or electro or whatever the heck you call it). But since the original recording was made probably around 8 months ago or so, I've learned a bit in guitar micing techniques, not that I re-recorded, but I just cut out some unnecessary noise; I also compressed the kick drum and snare a little, make it sound a little bit more even. The guitars, sadly, don't sound quite as good as in any of my recent projects, one of which you'll be hearing as soon as it's done, a little surprise for everyone. Maybe you'll care, maybe you won't. Anyway, that's my blurb for the day. Still patching together 11. Most of it's ready to be captured and edited, though there're still 2 scenes in need of filming (one of which we can actually do over Xbox Live, so if anyone's interested in helping, let us know via Myspace\You Tube).

The Aftermath of the Beginning (aka the in-between)

So I've begun editing, officially. Usually, I wait till we have all the, for lack of a better word, filming done before I start capturing and editing, but given the circumstances, it's time for a change (not that it wasn't before, it's just that we're trying to speed this up as much as possible). We've actually got the majority of the filming done. There's two scenes left, the very first, and then the very last. We opted to make an addition, which will be the new beginning of this episode. I'm also considering (just for this episode) doing away with the normal intro and making an orchestral version for the soundtrack of the beginning scene. I may or may not. We'll see. Hopefully, this thing will be out sooner rather than later, but only time will tell.