Presenting Music & Film

Diana at "pre-sales" table

 Last night in Lewisville: Amazing! What support and enthusiasm!

Lisa & Stan (from Australia) flew in & the focus of our program was on the music for our film & how it had been created.  Here's a glimpse. Tonight: another program!  What a life we lead (when we're not knocking ourselves out in post production).

Sophia & daughter, assembly CDs

Dawn & Marjie at CD table

Lisa, performing with Arman & Natasha

Lisa, at intermission, with young fans

Anne & Tim, speaking

Events THIS weekend!

Our composer is coming from Australia! If you are in the Dallas area, come to one of the events below! 

Perry Productions Presents:

An Evening of Film & Music from Luminous Journey: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in America, 1912

 

See excerpts from the soon-to-be released film

and hear stories from the film's creators, Anne & Tim Perry, 

and executive producer Bahram Jalalizadeh

 

Meet the composer of the original music from Luminous Journey,

Lisa Haese Smith of Perth, Western Australia,

who will play piano compositions, accompanied by violin

Friday, March 29, 7:30 PM 

Lewisville Baha'i Center

103 Kathryn Dr  Lewisville, TX 75067

&

Saturday, March 30, 7:30 PM

 

Dallas Baha'i Center

9400 Plano Road, Dallas

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Refreshments will be served

 

CDs will be available for sale

Advance orders for Luminous Journey can be taken

 

Don't miss this stellar opportunity!

 All are welcome.

 

See http://LuminousJourney.org

Audio Post Production

There's something to be said for specializing--using one's talents in precise and specific ways.  This past weekend we had a very special houseguest--Eric Johnson of Trailblazer Studios in Raleigh, NC. He is the executive producer in charge of music and sound there.

Eric will be doing our final audio "sweetening"--the mix of narration and music, with some sound effects embellishment.

We are so very, very lucky to have him on our team! And the film will be better for it!  While Tim is an excellent audio producer, the project will benefit from having another set of ears/hands on it.  We are learning so much about the stages of professionalism. And Eric has a great perspective on the scope of our project, as he feels it will be significant and around for a long time. . . .

The fact that he took the time & effort to come to us is just unbelievable!  But then, we've experienced a number of unbelievable things on this journey!

CD of Monologues Available!

 We have a new product for sale, a CD of Monologues about people (real and fictitious) who met 'Abdu'l-Baha. 

We will be SELLING the CD for $15 to help finalize our film project.

To PURCHASE a CD, go to: www.LuminousJourney.org and use the "donation" button to make a PayPal donation. 

Then, send us an email saying you either need the password to the "download" site ($15) OR wish to receive one in the mail ($20) and give either an email or snail-mail address. 

Or, a check can be sent to us: 702 Keywe Place, Duncanville, TX 75116

YEA for bringing things to full fruition! 

The World of Color

Working with our colorist,
Omar Godinez

 I thought our film looked pretty good. But when we took it to a professional colorist to see what he would do with it, wonders of wonders, it looked much better! Tim could do the color correction work, but it would take him lots longer.

Omar is a professional colorist--that's what he does. So, we've had several sessions with him to compare our footage to what he can do with it. Amazing! And sometimes he takes it a bit too far and we have to pull him back.  

Omar, our colorist

Omar says he's been telling people about our project. It's really interesting for us to work with someone this much into color.

While the work is expensive (for us) it will make a huge difference in the quality of the film.

Weld

Omar has his studio in a new cooperative space called "Weld." Artists buy memberships and can go there to edit, shoot, collaborate, meet clients. Omar has his own office--which is important because he really has to work in the dark and show clients the work in the dark.

Omar has just been featured in the WELD blog: http://weld.co/blog

Compare this color . . . 

to this color . . . 

Yea for color!!!!

Advancement on All Fronts!

We are advancing toward completion! ah! We can dimly perceive an "end" to our project--or at least the making of a DVD. (There will always be things we want to change.)

Day and night, we move forward with the film. Here's An indication: Compare the old chart (a list of segments) with the new chart (final post production stages).

We are fortunate to have helpers. 

Intern Brad (now working on final stages of a CD project of monologues) . . . 

Brad 

Rebekah, in one editing suite . . .

Tara

Rebekah

And Tara, in the other . . . 

Tim, creating tracks for dolly shot
(enlarge to see Anne in mirror)

Rebekah & Anne

As we work on editing the last remaining segments, we also prepare files for the colorist and consult with a possible distributor and our audio sweetening person. AND we just shot another scene, for our Montreal segment.  (I love the production part: creativity & chaos. I got to be a PA, gaffer, costumer, hair & makeup person, prop assistant, foley artist for sound effects . . . )

Brad & Tim, creating a set 

Brad imaging himself as a Toronto reporter

Brad as the Toronto reporter

Tara, doing double duty as lighting helper

  

Brad, sanding pvc pipes for dolly shot 

Anne being foley artist for typewriter sound effects 

and doing hair 

Reporter in the monitor

another angle, dolly shot

Tim on dolly shot

 Another day in the Perry home studio, ending at 4 am!  And what a great little scene we've added!