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Well, what have we been doing since the last blog entry? You may well ask, and since you do:
LIBBY scripted the Extras films and made slide shows of original Piper works and location stills.
CHARLES made adjustments to DVD, recut parts, added new credits, titivations, then edited extras, added visual material and music, designed opening and closing credits for extras based on Piper's marbled papers (note green for GO and red for END - ultra clever this stuff!), downloaded plug-in for jolly frames on extras, sound mixed levels throughout. He also transferred music from suitable LPs, each more than 50 years old (to by-pass copyright laws) on to the computer, cleaned same of clicks etc and then extracted 5-6 minute sections for the slide shows.
At the 11th hour (literally) his negotiations with Shell came good and they allowed us not only to use parts of the film Crown of Glass (about Liverpool Met Cathedral) in our main film, but also to add the entire Shell documentary to our DVD - a HUGE bonus! Not least because it's fantastic (almost unknown) footage about an amazing project.
Once all the sections were complete Charles then built the DVD (think LEGO writ large), imported assets, 12 tracks average, marbled papers added for menu pages - for example the opening, extras, slide shows and the sub sections (Piper website and Blog [THAT'S US!]), DVD access software for non Mac users. He also had to produce and add a short Goldmark Gallery promo at the last minute.
And then the testing, the endless testing and re-jigging, which went on and ON and ON and ON and ON until 1am Sunday 27 September (each change takes about 4 hours computer processing time, so not something to be taken lightly). And when is the opening? Oh, a mere 10 hours from now! Perfection run rampant!