THE PRODIGAL ALTAR BOY BLOG - "Chock Full o'Nuts"

THE PRODIGAL ALTAR BOY BLOG

180-DAY COUNTDOWN

T+1 DAYS AND COUNTING

Documentary Work:

Selected readings:

Shaking the Money Tree – Morrie Warshawski

Directing the Documentary – Michael Rabiger

Started charging batteries for funeral shoot

Preliminary shoot kit assembly:

• XL1s Camera
• 14X Manual lens
• 3X wide angle lens
• LCD monitor kit
• Lithium “AA” batteries X 8 (for Zoom Q3)
• 16GB memory card (for Zoom Q3)

Music Practice:

Stratocaster Warm-Ups

“So What”

Inversion Excursion work

Body Work:

Active Rest

TQ Project Updates

The Inner Circle starts tomorrow and I am excited about that.  I am equally excited about the funeral shoot on Friday.  There is a rumor going around that due to the expected turnout, the funeral may move from Holy Family to the Virginia Beach Convention Center.  I should probably call Monsignor Pitt to check the veracity of that and how that affects our agreement that I can shoot the funeral.  I will weigh that decision over the next 24 hours. 

Jesse Wieman is working on two more paintings from the Virginian-Pilot photos.  He started these before TQ’s passing and I look forward to seeing how they turn out.  Working the paintings into the film will be interesting.  While my original idea of dissolving from photo to painting will still work, I think the paintings can convey their own visual story apart from the photographs they are based on. 

Working in Sony ACID with loop idea for the score.  After the funeral, I want to start working with the BOSS Slicer pedal and eventually put together a “soundtrack” pedal board specifically to be set up to generate and capture soundtrack ideas. 

From TQ"s expanded obituary in the 29 April 2012 Virginian Pilot:

"...according to his wishes, TQ will be cremated, and his ashes poured into a jumbo "Chock-Full-O-Nuts" coffee can, which will be placed in the columbarium of St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish, Poquoson, following an Evening Prayer service, on Wednesday, May 9, at 7 p.m. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel is handling arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.hdoliver.com."

You can't make this up...stay tuned!

2011 Countdown - T-36 Days and Counting

2011 – Last 100 Days

Prodigal Altar Boy Countdown

T-36 Days to Go

25 November 2011

Goal:  1 hour per day working on the film

Details: 

Continued targeted reading in Karen Everett’s eBook , “Documentary Editing.”

Total time:  1 hour

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

Warm-up on the MojoCaster

Total time:  15 minutes

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

Active rest. (post-Turkey Day)

Goal:  15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie

Details:

 “Dies Irae” – 10X , broke down the octave and dyad climbs

“Jam Session with Garry Cooke”

Am – D7 chord progression, pulling in A and A octave bass (palm mute).   I originally intended this as the chordal accompaniment to the A Dorian intervallic riff, and now this progression has a life of its own.  Garry added a bass line to the progression.  I see a lot of places it can be used.  What this really needs now is the guitar run through the Adrenalinn III and/or the Boss Slicer.

“Granby Street” – 3-4X working with Garry.  He already had a nice bass line down for the intro/chorus, we spent this time getting a bass line for the verses.  The song is starting to hang together now.  Garry really did his homework on this one.  This will probably be ready for recording by the first of the year.

Total Time:  90 minutes