‘You Send It’ has just belled in my in-box to alert me that Elliott has masterfully completed all the audio and sound post-production on our film, Sea Things. What would Red Room do without his skills? I imagine we’d be silent more often and I may have had multiple heart attacks, since our inception, trying to edit the hours and hours of audio material Red Room has gathered. Thank you, Elliott. Now you can return to making your music and winning awards!
Now, it’s up to Tyler to complete our creation and then, tomorrow evening, we shall screen it for all of you who make our event. Compared to the experiences I’ve had editing our previous films, this time I have been amazed that in three days we can weave together a ten minute piece. Part of that comes from paying people professional wages (okay, excluding Elliott who works pro-bono for us) and not depending on favours or mates’ rates. The other reason is that a deadline, as we all know, can prevent us from procrastinating or from indulging our creative fantasies.
I have a zippingly high level of epinephrine when doing these projects (perhaps all things) and today’s mantra is that others need to sleep and eat, even if I do not, quite so much. Having said that, my eyes refused to open this morning and when they did they were so heavy they remained alert for under thirty seconds, shut and then lifted an hour later. Now I’m writing about eyes, they can sense it, and I feel them weighing down, trying to take me to sleep.
Listen eyes, I don’t think so. Open!
