Theatre Fall shoot

Hello everyone,

Today I had the good fortune to film in a pub, AND to film with band Theatre Fall for a new episode. A drunken man kicked milk paton and talked about cargo nets for 20 minutes, and we managed to film a pretty long scene and record voices in just 3 hours.

Here are some screen captures from the raw footage:









Work continues!

Dates Confirmed for Final Episode Shoot

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The dates for the bulk of shooting the final episode; "Milk Paton and Jarvis Island", have been confirmed. Wednesday 25th June through Wednesday 2nd July.

This finale episode will involve explosions, gunfighting and Terrorist Arrows! The first draft of the script was finished last night.

Milk Paton Game

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Whilst editing work continues at a respectable pace and I plan for more shoots, I have been working on a game based in the Milk Paton universe.

Here is a screenshot:

Music

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Today I secured the background music for Milk Paton's song in the revised version of Milk Paton and QWERTY. The music is included in the video below and should be credited to Blair Stewart. Thanks Blair!

More Voices and Recording Studios

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Today I added William's voices to a new QWERTY episode, bringing said' episode to around the 4 minute mark.

I also enquired about using the "Rise 2 Red" local recording studio facilities; not for recording voices, but to serve as a "radio station" in an episode. Their rates are most reasonable and of course, they are local.

Worms Armageddon

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Today editing work continued on the new Terrorist Arrows episode. William is left in a room with Milk Paton, and breaks the awquard silence with an unorthodox impression.

The following video is a draft of the scene to serve as proof of concept. The voices will be redone, and some editing work is uncomplete. Red mattes take the place of Milk Paton's shots.

Editing work was extensive and included capturing of Worms Armageddon gameplay / loading footage using the Fraps tool, available at www.fraps.com

Work continues.

Adding Voices to an Episode

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Here is a screenshot taken during editing of an episode.



My previous post mentioned recording of William's voices. Much of today's editing time was spent arranging his voices into an in progress episode and subtitling them. In the screenshot above, you can see an episode in the editing program Studio. William's voices are boxed in red, with the subtitles above each sound clip.

Placing subtitles and voices can be suprisingly time consuming.

The above screenshot shows how an episode typically comes together. Scenes to be shot appear as red areas, and the Geometric Story Teller's parts can be seen throughout. These are the first to be laid out and subtitled but the very last to be recorded; allowing for changes in the structure of the episode, this is logical - as the Geometric Story Teller's parts obviously refer to the plot of the episode - something that evolves during the course of editing.

The above episode has been edited to a rough time of 5 minutes / 21 - making it a roughly 25% complete draft of the episode.

Recording Williams Voices

Hello everyone,

This blog is to tell everyone that work continues on the show. Tonight I sent across William's lines for 2 episodes for him to record and e-mail back to me.

Work continues this week as Robert is up from University, available for filming.

First Terrorist Arrows shot

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Here is a screen capture taken from one of the 8 upcoming Milk Paton episodes, showing the new Terrorist Arrow.



Editing work on this shot was extensive and included addition of 3D arrow, shadow, animation of William and changing his t-shirt to red.