2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-30
Days to Go
1
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Watched
Karen Everett’s Story Doctor Kit video #3, “Musical & Cinematic Solutions”
- Parallel, Contrary and Oblique music
- Designing a Sound scape with Sound FX
- Adding Cinematic Dimension
- Fixing Interviews
- Revealing Character Traits
Total time: 1 Hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
MojoCaster
warm-up
Pat
Metheny – Etude #1 bars 1-4 30X
“It’s
Your Thing” – Isley Brothers
“Talkin’ Loud and Sayin’ Nothing” – Living
Colour version
“So What”
- Miles Davis
Grace City songs
“I
Give Myself Away”
“Forever”
“Lord,
You Are Awesome”
“Revelation
Song”
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Viking
Warrior Conditioning
36:36
Protocol – 18 Reps per set – 16kg kettlebell
20
sets
Total time: 24:04
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
Details:
“Dies
Irae” – 25X in groups of five, allowing
me to focus on execution
“Dies
Irae” – Focus work on octaves and dyad climbs
“Granby
Street” – played on the MojoCaster and slowed the tempo waaaaay down (experiment)
A
Dorian intervallic riff - this riff was
where the Am –D7 riff came from. Need to
multitrack this with the chords to see if it works.
Am
– D7 chord progression, pulling in palm mute A and A octave and D bass.
R&B
riff work from Gospel Skillz DVD
E
– B/D# - C#min – A R&B chordal riff
work. Focus on smooth transitions and
tone.
Total Time: 30 minutes
Notes:
Okay,
I am down to the last thirty days. A
list of“Lessons Learned” is not only appropriate, but mandatory! (Mandatory,
hah)
Lessons
Learned for today:
Goals are just that. Make the effort and if you hit the goal,
fine, if not, learn from the effort.
Most importantly, avoid beating yourself up about not hitting the goal if
you made the effort. If you do not make
the effort, your chances of hitting the goal is ZERO. Celebrate effort, any
effort.
Make the effort. To quote Dan Duchaine, “Explore the limits of
slackness.” Many days, I nearly talked
myself out of making an effort in some area, but every time I pushed and made
the effort, I was rewarded.
Return to center. Know why you are doing what you are
doing. I started and stopped digitizing
the footage. I resumed working on the
film after watching one of Karen Everett’s videos on organizing footage clips
and bins. In addition to getting a
workng capture strategy, I was able to dig deep into the computer configuration
and NLE settings to optimized the capture. Had I pressed on with what was not
working, there would have been trouble down the road.
Program in mindless tasks. When I do my
guitar warm-ups and some of the R&B riffs like “It’s Your Thing” and “Talkin’
Loud and Sayin’ Nothing,” I am not
putting a lot a mental effort into those tasks.
It is all muscle memory and letting my mind wander. I am engaged enough to make sure executiuon
is on point, but it’s mostly a trick to let my mind wander and settle down for
other tasks coming up. For score work, I
am in the moment, working on the pieces, testing variations of tempo, tone and
technique to see how they would work in the film.
