Interesting article here about filming wrapping up.

http://nwitimes.com/articles/2008/06/15/co...466007b4153.txt

-Donna

Thanks for the link Donna. I'm not sure if I am reading this correctly, but I understood it to mean that it is just the Midwestern filming that is due to finish by the end of the month. Could this mean they will still be filming elsewhere, possibly in studios? This is the bit I mean.

Anne x

That's a good question--I would think with negotiations not going well with SAG, that there's a rush to get this finished by the 30th. I'm also wondering with the severe weather that ha occurred in the midwest if they may still finish up some scenes in LA in a studio set. I agree, that sentence is a little odd, as well as Johnny's contract stipulating 69 days of filming-------

-Donna

What I wonder about it how does a writer for the NWI Times know what the details of Johnny's contract are?

This is really a poorly worded and written sentence.

We know they are wanting to finish filming by midnight June 30, I'd also heard June 26. There should be follow up work in sound studios, but at this point? Who knows?

Yes, the sentence is very vague and you bring up a good point Karen of how someone would know the details of Johnny's contract. Hmmmm... wonder who the source is for that........

-Donna

Even after location filming wraps, usually there would need to be some ADR voice replacement in a studio, of dialog where the sound wasn't clear enough during the actual filming.

I thought this text was interesting regarding that process:

"Dialog that cannot be salvaged from production tracks must be
re-recorded in a process called looping or ADR.

Looping originally involved recording an actor who spoke lines in
sync to "loops" of the image which were played over and over along
with matching lengths of recording tape. ADR, though faster, is still
painstaking work.

An actor watches the image repeatedly while listening to the original production track on headphones as a guide. The actor then re-performs each line to match the wording and lip movements. Actors vary in their ability to achieve sync and to recapture the emotional tone of their performance.

Marion Brando likes to loop because he doesn't like to freeze a performance until he knows its final context. (People have said that one reason he mumbles is to make the production sound unusable so that he can make adjustments in looping.)

ADR is usually considered a necessary evil but there are moments when looping can be used not just for technical reasons but to add new character or interpretation to a shot. Just by altering a few key words or phrases an actor can change the emotional bent on a scene."

from Sync tanks, Vol. 21, Cineaste, 01-01-1995, pp 56
The Art and Technique of Postproduction Sound
by Elisabeth Weis

Thanks Carpediem for that info about ADR and looping.

Poor Johnny would find that an excrusciating process having to watch himself over and over :huh:

So I am going to guess JD won't be in FLA in July?

Not only that but consider that Johnny was not in every scene (Hoover and FBI scenes) so 69 days for him would not reflect the total number of days scheduled for the entire film shoot. :blink:

That would be true, but it's still odd that a "number" would be in his contract for his shooting days. Plus, who would even give out that info. from the studio? OK, do we want to go back now and count how many days he's been involved in filming?-lol

-Donna

the article also said they started shooting in Madison which we know is not true. I don't know about newspapers you would think they would try to be more accurate... maybe it is not possible. :blink:

I think it's possible Billiroo, but I think some papers just don't do their research..... :(

-Donna

FRom what we've heard? No Florida.

Do we know any filming schedule for the rest of the week?