Wingmen Incorporated: Bringing You up to Speed!

Dear Whomever is Bored Enough to Read This,

I've had several people asking me how post production for my upcoming feature, Wingmen Incorporated, is going.  So I thought I would make take a moment and bring everyone up to speed.

This is straight from the horse's mouth: Wingmen Incorporated co-writer, co-director, co-star and editor Ken Gayton (some of it is also from my mouth as well). This is basically a combination of Ken's thoughts as well as my own.  But since I'm telling the story I'll change some of the "I's" to he's" when referring to Ken.

After all the sound files are renamed, we'll need to sync all the sound files.  Which Ken has been doing already. After the clips are labeled and sync'd .  Then he'll send me a DVD of the movie.  We can tweak it and fine tune it.  Once it's at a picture lock then we can send off the film to get sound corrected.

While that's happening we can decide on music.  Where it needs to go and what parts need it.  We'll need to decide which parts need songs (from bands) and which parts just need scored (just music). Can use Shockwave.com again as they have an entire library of great music to use that is very affordable.  Also, since we've been contacted by several musicians that score films, it might be a good idea to check some of them out as well. 

We also need to find someone to do special effects in the movie.  The bullet shots are the main thing. Ken is going to try and learn how to do that on his own, but it's pretty tricky.  Although he thinks he may have found some good videos though so hopefully he'll be able to do it.

Once the sound correction is all done which entails evening the levels, putting filters on scenes, sound effects, etc.  We'll know what scenes need to have ADR. Then we'll have to do ADR. Ken will fly back to Chicago for a week to do that and schedule it with whoever needs to come in.  We're going to do it differently than we've done it in the past. We're going to do it on site and not in a studio because in a studio it feels too forced and sounds unrealistic. Which I totally agree with. I've done ADR before and it felt like a total waste.  It was hard to replicate the performance 6 month later in a studio.  (for those of you that don't know, ADR means "Automated Dialogue Replacement" and/or "Additional Dialogue Recording".  Basically means the dialogue from the original recording on set wasn't quite good enough and we need to go into a studio and re-record the dialogue. There is a clip of the scene playing on the monitor.  You can hear the audio from the scene in your headphones and you have to try to say the line EXACTLY how you did it on set.  Same tone, same performance.  It sucks.  I hate doing ADR.)

Once the ADR is done, we put in the music that we decided upon. and we'll set up a screening for the cast, crew, family, etc.  Not sure how that's going to work because Ken will have just been out in Chicago and it would be very expensive to have him come out here twice in a short period of time.  But we'll figure something out.

So we don't know for sure if we'll be done by April 1st as some of this is out of our control, like sound correction for example.  However, it should be no later than May.  It will still be in time to submit to the Sundance Early Bird Deadline, which is the goal.

Hope this brings you all up to speed!

Jason W. Schaver
Moped Jones Entertainment

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