Mary, Mallory, Wilhemina and I drove out to Glendale to monitor the final audio mix of episode 1 yesterday.  This step involves watching dialogue against lip-synch, approving foley art, (which was great), and checking to make the score (beautifully composed by Rotem Moav) allows the dialogue to proceed clearly.   We felt less than contributive because Tom Boykin, the young mixing engineer had done such a good job, there wasn’t much to catch.

Early on in the “filming,” I purchased a field mixer and four fairly expensive lavalor microphone sets (expensive by our standards).  We put three young teenagers in charge of monitoring the dialogue sound, and a lot of production professionals expressed reservations about that, since sound is usually the first give-away in an independent production, but we’re proud to say we had hardly any ADR looping to do and the dialogue is crisp, clean, and even 5.1 now, thanks to Tom’s work.

After the mixing session, we took in lunch at a entertainment eatery, the Alcove in Los Feliz, where producer Jonathan Wilson showed everyone the real star of the day — Wilhemina Drazin.

That finished, we headed back up to Oak Glen and only had to briefly debate the DVD cover, by Sarah Bond, since it looks so cool.   I keep looking at it and thinking — “we should be able to sell a million of those.”

Okay, right, I’ve got to stop being so pessimistic.  Worldwide, I’m thinking at least 100 million — that’s a paltry 1/60th of the world’s liberty-loving people.