Christian Filmmakers

Edit is locked Scoring starts beginning of next week, time to start breaking down the timeline and getting the delivery files ready, then Color-Correction begins!

The beginning of this upcoming week composer Jurgen Beck starts working Standing Firm

He just posted a little snippet about the film here: http://www.jurgenbeck.com/archives/466

Congratulations on having a locked film.  That’s awesome!    Look forward to seeing it when it’s complete.

Blessings,
Tom

Segment from my personal blog entry:

“So lots going on in the “life of kyle.”  Today specifically showed much getting done with Standing Firm.  The past few days has had me conversing with my composer a little bit and my sound-mixer but today things really progressed quite a bit in my opinion.  It took me a day or so but I now have the entire films audio separated into a more logical order throughout the cut.  This means I was able to finally render out the OMF files for my sound-mixer to get started on the film.  OMF is basically a file that he can open and see all the individual files in a given track or number of tracks.  They’re relatively large since all the audio is 48khz, 24bit.

I also had a pretty lengthy discussion with my composer Jurgen Beck today via Skype.  We talked about the score, where to go from here, what kind of themes I might want and associated with what elements of the film, etc.  A score is like telling your story all over again, but with music.  How many different keys are we going to have, how many specific themes will we create and callback at which moments of the film.  Standing Firm has a lot of relationships in it, and each is a different kind but some can be grouped by kind and therefore might have a common thread of music.  As a filmmaker you need to think about these things.  Working with a composer is like working with an actor, they need direction and insight into their “character” in the film, but in this case they’re taking on the entire film, not just a specific moment, line, scene, etc.  That’s why they’re so important because they bring it all together emotionally.  This film is highly visual and will need a powerful score to compliment the camera work.  If we get it right, it should be something very special…especially at this budget range.  Who knows!

I got a quote for what it might cost to subtitle the film into English and Spanish.  It’ll be a couple thousand easy…so I gotta think about that.  I don’t think I can really afford it, but I’ll give it thought.  It really might depend on making a deal for the film before release to a vendor.  The money we get from that might be enough to get that completed for the film before release time.  Some might say it’s overkill, especially if we added a few other languages, but part of my reasoning is I don’t know where the film could go and I would much rather get a single edition of the film done, and not have to make a completely different format to go into the market…it would be nice to have one.  We’ll see though, there are options and ways to probably get this done.  Color correction is also moving along as I’m about 17 minutes into the film. (first pass not final, I’ll look through it again to check everything).”

SOURCE: http://lifeofkyle.com/2010/02/18/busy-body/

Post-Production progress and prayer requests for Standing Firm can be found in my latest post on LifeofKyle.com

http://lifeofkyle.com/2010/02/24/jesus-fights-for-me/

I’ll be posting frequent updates for the film here that aren’t as “business” oriented as the official updates I send to everyone.  You’ll see more tech talk in these.

Delicious. Looking forward to… everything.

I’m glad your excited Dallas Lord Willing everyone enjoys it…despite it’s flaws.

Kyle Prohaska wrote:

I’m glad your excited Dallas Lord Willing everyone enjoys it…despite it’s flaws.

What flaws? The film is perfect!

Blessings,

Jurgen Beck || composer
http://www.jurgenbeck.com
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  aw shucks Jurgen…

New Newsletter (mostly for newer fans/supporters): http://www.standingfirmmovie.com/newsletter/022610_new.html

Moving towards that 10,000 fan mark on Facebook…very exciting There aren’t a lot of films in this budget range that get that kind of support.  Hopefully this keeps on building towards the release date and by then we’ll have something truly special on our hands I hope!