I have adjusted my body clock lately to work during the twilight hours. Parang taga call center. Part of the reason is because I’m working with two vampires who want instant feedback and comments on their work/queries because we are rushing post-production like anything. That would be my musical scorer Diwa de Leon, and my sound mixer Mark Villena.
We text each other at midnight, 3am, 5am, and expect instant replies.
I can’t blame them. I took me a long time to put together a decent cut of the film so the two couldn’t start right away with their work. Now they’re both working under pressure. Whatever pressure Cinemalaya puts on me, I pass it on to them. Hehehe.
Diwa is making progress with the music. We weren’t quite in sync at first on what I thought the film needed, but he’s getting the hang of it now. Well, I’m used to working with him and from experience it does take a while for us to be on the same wavelength. But when he does get what I want, he’s right smack on target.
Mark, who was also our sound recordist for most of the shoot is currently being bugged. I mean it. He’s bugged by those darn kuliglig sounds in the mountains. To our naked ears, the sound of those bugs may all seem the same, but to the mics, the sound varies depending on the direction the mics are pointing. What more for those scenes that we shot on different days? Whenever we talk about a cure for some of the sounds or lines, Mark’s major concern are those darn kuligligs. Haha. I find it funny, but I’m sure he doesn’t.
- wild sound
As for me, I’m just glad that I actually have time now to go out and and socialize and attend to other things other than 24k. I’m so glad that Sheen, Kat, Jamo, Ami and Donna, students from UP who helped us during our last shoot, are helping me out in the editing suite as well. They’re toying with the trailer right now. We should have it out soon.
That said, here’s a flashback of our last shoot. Many thanks to Jamo Morales for his kick-ass photos:
- boyet (jojit lorenzo) and arturo (alchris galura)
- camera department (harry tubio, apollo anao, and anthony aranar)
- super art dep led by production designer arthur maningas
- fun times
- production interns ani gatchalian, kat cabiladas, mae calapardo, sheen seeckts
- DOP pao orendain and 1st AC apollo anao fooling around
- it’s a wrap!!! my 24k dream team
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