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Though I have not fully absorbed a lot of the info in the Udemy on-line course, "Music Production in Logic Pro X," with Tomas George, I have, nevertheless, began the new mix for "Just One Shadow." I'm taking my time, though it's not going too terribly slowly. I started last night and I'd say I'm approaching maybe around half-way through the remix. The goal is to have it mixed and mastered by this coming weekend.

All the work, of course, is and will be in Logic Pro X. I am already finding it far more musically friendly than Final Cut Pro X, which is as it should be, since FCPX isn't specifically for mixing and mastering audio music files, despite that it has many attributes that lend themselves to such.

This evening will mark the second round of mixing, though maybe not the last. I have a lot of other creative irons in the fire and an almost intimdating to-do list, but I am taking my time with this mix, yet sticking with it with that intent to finish it, along with the mastering, before Saturday.

The only further preproduction for the "Just One Shadow" music video has been adding more photos to the library of options for the montages. Some are new ones provided by those responding to my calls, plus some more that I've again curated from the Creative Commons website. In terms of other preproduction, I have given a lot of mental thought to what I want to do. I'd say I have even created some storyboards in my head, if not on paper. I also have a decent idea of the image flow for the DV movie which is why I went back to Creative Commons, to look for specific sorts of images for specific spots in the song. If possible, I'll shoot some live footage this weekend. There are a couple different concepts that can be shot easily after the song is mastered. So, if the mastering is done by the weekend, which seems pretty likely, then I can shoot some of the live action footage Saturday.


ISO 2FS, MID-50S, RACE/ETHNICITY OPEN:

Auditions for The Roommate are just a week away. Once again, for those in the back, we're looking for two women who can play mid-fifties, and race and ethnicity is open. Might I add that these are two really good, strong female roles for middle-aged women -- an often overlooked demographic, even on stage. Also, I hope greatly that we do not have to cast this as an all-white cast. It all depends on who shows up and what their auditions are like. Until after April 13 passes, there are details for the audition just below.

In general preproduction for the show, I met this past week with our Covid Protocol Officer, Heather Atkinson, and our Production Stage Manager/First AD, Deirdre Root, to discuss the overall plan for out Covid safety protocols for auditions and all in-person work during production. I also met with Set Designer Jeff Sams to discuss what the show needs.

In specific DV movie preproduction I shot a little bit of test footage in the theatre space, specifically to see if I can have some sound cues played at low levels that I can then superimpose the same cues over at a higher volume in the movie editing process. I also shot the video at 60 frames per second (fps) to see if I can shoot at this higher quality then convert it down to 30 fps for the final cut, without getting something hinky. As yet I haven't loaded the clips into Final Cut Pro X to finish the testing, but that will happen soon.

Setting the DV camcorder to 60 fps.

Playing the sound cue at a low level in the theatre space through Show Cue Systems.

TEXT YADDA YADDAStriking the tripod.

Meanwhile, the renovations at The Guild are moving along. We're ticking a lot of things off our To-Do list. We have received shipment of our new box office counter, which will be up and running and sitting there all pretty when the audience members are back at the end of the summer.


ONCE MORE FROM THE HOME OFFICE:

Finally, after a week of frigid temperatures, it was a nice day today to do my work-at-home on the outside patio. As I stated before in another blog post, this remote working set-up is winding to its ending. By mid-summer, if not earlier, I, as well as my co-workers, will be back in the office, five days a week. I can't say that I am 100% enthused about that development. This remote-working set-up was one of the few things about this year of covid-pandemic happenstance that I could give an exuberant thumbs up to. Well, as George Harrison once sang: "All things must pass."

Not sure if there are any new angles left from which to shoot these "working on my patio" pics.

EASTER SUNDAY AT THE GLEN:

Most things point to there being a light at the end of this covid tunnel. But, we are still in the tunnel, so I have missed my second Easter dinner in a row with my family. Instead, I spent some time Easter Sunday at the Glen Helen Nature Preserve in Yellow Springs, Ohio, not too terribly far from my home. I'm still not making that multiple hikes in a week goal that I need to accomplish. But, I get my second vaccination shot tomorrow, (some referring to them as the "Fauci Ouchie"), so I may, in a few weeks, start going back into the gym, which, though I have had the opportunity to do for a few months now, I have not trusted as a safe, smart move. I still want to hit the forests as much as I can, but some work on the elliptical machine, as well as getting back to some weight lifting and other resistance training will be welcome as soon as I feel safe about it.

At the actual "Yellow Springs" inside the preserve, from which the village derives its name.
	The portion of the Miami Valley Bike Trails going through Yellow Springs. I trekked a few hundred yards of it at the end of my hike to get back to the parking lot where my car was.	The Glen Helen building, which a few years ago, was the last place I saw and spoke to the great Marsha Hanna, before her passing. We were there to see a special presentation of the one-person play, Underneath the Lintel, starring the incomparable Bruce Cromer.