Stalked the Waving Monk and Got 'im

Right away you know ... this ain't yer wine-makin' kinda monk.

The bubbles weren't part of the shoot tonight but rather they're part of the on-the-road clip dissolving into this one in the master video.  The new clip is merged into it already and this gives an immediate improvement to the focus on the timing.

While Mondo Monk is waving, the solo piano has to start and now the clip tells me how long to do it.  Maybe you think that's a brutal way to make music ... and it is ... but ... there's enough 'headroom' in the story to give a fair degree of flexibility.  If that doesn't work and I think the piano intro needs to go longer then there may be another clip in which I have a bizarro way I want to show someone approaching the Rockhouse from across the lawn.

The way the above flows for recording is to shoot the main scene with the piano intro leading up to the first phrase of the loop.  Record the whole thing and fit that to the video.  It will come in as a video and an audio track so the way it will go is to disable the video for the first segment of it and use that audio for the preceding clip, whether it's the monk or someone coming across the lawn.  The dissolve from that to inside the Sanctuary has to come down on the first phrase from the looper because it is almost a fanfare.  Big chords, lights, lasers - let's ride.


You don't need to know how much of a bitch it was to do it ... but it was ... yet ... maybe there wasn't enough smoke.  It's ok to leave that hanging for now because this clip either works as a keeper or a placeholder for doing it again.  Either way, the campaign keeps moving forward.

The breeze fooled me.  It was incredibly light but it takes almost nothing to clear out the smoke.  I set things up and it was good because the breeze was tiny and the hang time for the smoke was what I wanted.  In the short time it took to shoot the clip, the breeze shifted to the other direction.  Pfft!

This fogger is powerful but outdoors for anything needs zooks more power no matter what you're doing.  There is not any thought to getting another fogger; it would be cool ... but ... stupid.  Ideal for this would be, at a minimum, one on each side but there is only one other circumstance I envision for that and almost certainly there is a better (i.e. no cost) way to do it.

So ... all this hassle to get between seven and ten seconds of video (larfs).  You will see in the final it needs to be there.

Thanks to Yevette for helping out with it and not once saying, dayum, you are one strange sumbitch.  That's partly because she knows that already.  I told her after how the clip fits into the video and she was enthusiastic with, sure, that works.  It's difficult to get it from words but it is coming and, even though she is here, she hasn't seen the whole thing because the last chunk isn't recorded.  That's a big chunk but it will happen in one shot and, by its nature, it has to be one take.  A 'do over' has all kinds of problems from physical to technical, emotional, artistic, blah de blah.

Thanks to Yevette and thanks to everyone else for putting up with the teases.  When Yevette heard what the clip will do she saw it really is necessary and hopefully you will as well when this finally rolls out.