Friday, February 09, 2007
Night at the Studio
For the first time somebody at Scrawl Studio burns the animatics for Milly and Molly in the wrong format! And we do not realise it until we load it onto Pro Tools... viola! Pro Tools cannot open it!
We perform the conversion at the studio computer. Waste of time.
Conversion fails. Mike calls Scrawl to burn another copy, this time in the correct format.
6:30pm I set off for Scrawl again. I was there in the morning for a long-distance conference call with Australia, where the head honchos for M&M are based. Before I left Scrawl, I promised, "Okay, the music tomorrow..." (i.e. Friday afternoon before I head for school)
Now Scrawl is no longer at Pagoda Street, which would have been a short, pleasant walk from Stereo Image, which is at Maxwell. They've moved to Sim Lim Towers, and Bugis/Waterloo Street is not exactly a fun place to walk about... in the rush hour crowd it takes me an hour to get there and back.
What to do? Have to stay overnight at the studio to work, die-die must hand in the music tomorrow. And I do not have the audio interface required to operate Pro Tools (I already have the software installed in my computer). So I hold the keys from Mike and camp in the studio to finish the music, not intending to sleep until I complete.
I realise air-conditioning is very effective in staying awake. If I attempt such at home, I usually conk out by 4pm, even if I have drunk coffee for supper and begin work in the most alert state. Amazingly I feel fresh tonight. I work non-stop till about 5am, when I bounce out the music and send it to Scrawl. Then across the road to Maxwell Food Centre for breakfast, and back to the studio to concuss while waiting for Mike to arrive so I can hand him back his keys.
So I've been sleeping here and there... nevertheless I'm pretty much freshened up by the time I head to school for lectures in the afternoon.
Some pictures from Stereo Image:
3:06am and still working... hell lot of music tracks on Pro Tools ready to be inserted with the animation.
For the first time somebody at Scrawl Studio burns the animatics for Milly and Molly in the wrong format! And we do not realise it until we load it onto Pro Tools... viola! Pro Tools cannot open it!
We perform the conversion at the studio computer. Waste of time.
Conversion fails. Mike calls Scrawl to burn another copy, this time in the correct format.
6:30pm I set off for Scrawl again. I was there in the morning for a long-distance conference call with Australia, where the head honchos for M&M are based. Before I left Scrawl, I promised, "Okay, the music tomorrow..." (i.e. Friday afternoon before I head for school)
Now Scrawl is no longer at Pagoda Street, which would have been a short, pleasant walk from Stereo Image, which is at Maxwell. They've moved to Sim Lim Towers, and Bugis/Waterloo Street is not exactly a fun place to walk about... in the rush hour crowd it takes me an hour to get there and back.
What to do? Have to stay overnight at the studio to work, die-die must hand in the music tomorrow. And I do not have the audio interface required to operate Pro Tools (I already have the software installed in my computer). So I hold the keys from Mike and camp in the studio to finish the music, not intending to sleep until I complete.
I realise air-conditioning is very effective in staying awake. If I attempt such at home, I usually conk out by 4pm, even if I have drunk coffee for supper and begin work in the most alert state. Amazingly I feel fresh tonight. I work non-stop till about 5am, when I bounce out the music and send it to Scrawl. Then across the road to Maxwell Food Centre for breakfast, and back to the studio to concuss while waiting for Mike to arrive so I can hand him back his keys.
So I've been sleeping here and there... nevertheless I'm pretty much freshened up by the time I head to school for lectures in the afternoon.
Some pictures from Stereo Image:
3:06am and still working... hell lot of music tracks on Pro Tools ready to be inserted with the animation.
Former live-room, now converted into arrangement room.
Multi-tasking: doing school readings while waiting for the music to be bounced out (during the bouncing process the music is played from front to back: about 10 minutes per episode)
