Category Archives: Location Stuff

Stereo Generators and Screaming

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It’s not not the cards you’re dealt, it’s how you play the hand…

With a proper process trailer out of the question, the talent today had to drive themselves. Two Joker 800s on the hood and a Kinoflex indoors, the one genny piggybacked to the rear was huffing and puffing something fierce. Let’s slap another on back there, howbouts?

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Mom and Dad up front each had a line and then they (including the two kids in the back) all scream like banshees for several seconds. Alas, no room in the vehicle for the soundie so I had to do a set and forget on the 788t. MKH 50 up front covering Mom-n-Pop, Mom and Dad both wired (in case the gennies are really bad), and 2 Sankens in back to cover the noisy children.

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Marfa Day 4 – Staircases and Sewing Dummies

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The first half of the day was spent in the top of the Presidio County Courthouse in downtown Marfa. The elevator only went up three floors, so there was a lot of hiking up and down stairs. Afterwards we hit the popular Pizza Foundation.

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The last setup of the shoot was back at the Austin Street Cafe to shoot in a sewing room. Lisa spoiled us yet again with the best iced coffee I’ve ever run across.

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Marfa Day 3 – Valentines and Airstreams

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Shot at two remote-feeling spots today, the first being in Valentine, TX, a teeny place that most of us mailed Valentines from to get their postmark. Their PO is on the list of offices that may get whacked soon. Heartless, huh?

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We wrapped the day shooting at an Airstream trailer in a field off the highway. If I were a writer, this would be a great spot to get stuff done. We used my van as a windbreak which helped a ton. Also, the power poles have a strange hum to them out here. A lonely horse appeared seemingly out of nowhere towards the end of the shoot.

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Marfa Day 1 – Building Soundcastles

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Well, not Marfa today. Day one of a five day shoot was spent mostly driving from Austin to Monahans Sandhills State Park in West Texas. It’s for ancillary video that accompanies an author’s book. We’ll be shooting eight segments between now and Friday, the 17th. The Sandhills Park is a pretty trippy place and while it’s neat to be here, I’m glad for the gear’s sake it’s a one-day event.

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Austin Variety Show

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Nothing like a deadline. My friend Troy Dillenger needed an assist on getting some rapid post-production sound work done on two episodes of the Austin Variety Show, in time for a January 28 premiere event. I don’t think he slept more than 2 hrs a day this week.

I had basically a day to post the audio for a 40+ minute program aka Episode 14, most of which was poorly recorded narrative bits. Well, I wanted something to bang on Pro Tools 10 with… Episode 15 had less narrative to deal with and thus was cranked out faster.

While I can’t say I plan to personally showcase these rush jobs, I do support his Quixotic efforts to conquer cable TV! Go see them do their thing, the AVS venue is over at Highland Mall.

 

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