A Press Release has been published online about Binky Prod’s new Fantasy web series, ‘Sapphire Prophecies.’
“Montreal based Binky Productions has recently launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo for their all new Fantasy web series entitled ‘Sapphire Prophecies’. This original project is not only Non-Union, but will potentially be Montreal’s first Independent web series completely funded through crowd sourcing.
This current campaign covers Pre-Production. The team will need to raise $15 000 CAD in order to be able to go forward with Pre-production, and this mostly to acquire medieval style weapons and armour, costumes, props, and magical artefacts.
The campaign not only has Achievement videos in store and a neat selection of perks, it will also be featured at this year’s Mascara and Popcorn short film festival, here in Montreal, with an interactive booth which will include other nice surprises. And let’s not forget the music, specially composed, that inspires success.”
The day has come, noble folk of the many lands, for the Launch of the Pre-Production Fundraiser for the original Fantasy Web-Series entitled ‘Sapphire Prophecies’.
The Sapphire Prophet seeks to raise $15 000.00 CAD on Indiegogo. With your pledges (meaning you are only charged once the goal is reached) this goal can become reality.
Today on Binky’s Blog, Binky talks about ADR. What to do if you HAVE to do it, how best to save time and money, and shares how it can be avoided with two simple tricks that can be applied on set.
“Ah, the joys of Audio Post-Production. And what is ADR exactly? Automatic Dialogue Replacement. Also referred to (though rarely) as Additional Dialogue Recording. However you say it, ADR means long and tedious hours and it can be very costly. It’s something, when you’ve done it, you want to avoid. And it you HAVE to do it, then you want to do it in as little time possible. Let me tell you how you can save time doing ADR and how you can avoid having to do it in the first place, just with two simple tricks on set.
First, let’s begin with why and when. ADR is part of the Audio Post-Production process. So you got your person cleaning audio, making things “seamless”, adding sound effects. But sometimes, the audio is just not good enough and cleaning it doesn’t help it sound better. The reasons? 1) Could be your audio recording device was malfunctioning (this is the worst case scenario and happened to me) and it messed up your sound and it all sounds…bad. 2) There’s a buzz in the audio or a whistling (another sort of malfunction, sometimes sporadic, sometimes constant). 3) The line was whispered and was not loud enough. 4) The line was said too far from the mic or the actor was turned away from the mic and the sound did not get picked up. 5) Something unexpected came in and added a noise at one precise moment (tractor, truck, thunder). 6) One word from the line is shouted and the audio peeks at that place. 7) There’s a lot of wind. Usually, if the reason is 5, you can retake the shot, but sometimes sounds are recorded and unheard by anyone except for the Sound Recordist. So trust your person to notice these things. But long days can mean missing some of the sounds sometimes and it’s only normal, since the human brain can’t register everything at once. So don’t fire your sound person just yet.
This week on Binky’s Blog, Binky shows us how to write a proper script using nothing more than Microsoft Word. A video accompanies this blog.
“You don’t need an expensive or special software to write a proper script with the proper font and formatting. Of course, some of these software format the script for you, so you save time, but you can easily format it while proof reading it and you don’t spend that much more time than necessary on formatting it. It also saves you money as it can easily be done with Microsoft Word.
Font. The most commonly used font is COURRIER. Not Courrier New, there’s a difference. I used to gets mixed up with the two at first. Size 12. A good trick is to keep your alignment to LEFT, select COURRIER 12 and write out your rough/working script from here.”
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