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last "added to"  1/20//05

Tom Jones and Alice Jones meet with Larry and Lois Bobbert to create script ideas - January 2003

White Hall chosen as primary location

Mayor Agrees to Cameo

Presentations Exchange Club Toastmasters Kiwanis

Script 80% completed 3/17/03

Turpin Funeral Home location secured
Hairline Barbershop Location secured
Galaxy Location arranged

RAT project approval pending revisions

Read Through 3/19 Committee
 Adult TRYOUTS 3/21&22

CASTING begun 3/22

Major Cast Read through  3/27/03
First Rehearsal Major Cast 3/28
Richmond Register Sunday Article on MOVIE 3/30

Logo created--suggested by Lois B  3/30

Shirts with logo to Crew and principals
Shooting begins at Turpin Funeral Home
Shooting begins at White Hall 4 evenings a week April-May

Kid Auditions 4-19 - 10AM-2PM
CAST CALL  for minor cast members 3:00

Kids CAST 4-24-03
Minor Roles reassigned and some expanded
Number of Kid roles reduced
Kids roles consolidated into Roles CAST

Danforth Funeral Scene  5- 
Berea College Chapel

Golf Scene at Arlington Shot

 White Hall Phase one completed  5-27

New ideas for Act 2 - metaphors

Principals Cast Party at Tom and Alice's after 5-27 White Hall shoot

Larry start's rewrite of Act one with new metaphor that can encompass all shot footage - will conference with Tom     6-1-03

Battlefield Scene - shot-missing audio - requires VO

Funeral Home hunt completed  6-5-03

Interrogation of Principals begun    (Each principal tells the camera who he thinks is guilty and why they did it - then confesses)    6-6-10

KID fight scene - rained out at Danforth 6-10-03

Kids scenes - shot 6--03

BAR scene Cancelled--too many talent schedule conflicts

Planning begins for October CAST party at Ledford's (Elizabeth Stocker) farm

First 5 character CARDS for game and movie opening created 6-16-03

Tom Parish Scene shot Boone Tavern 7-8

Ledford added to card characters 7-14
HAIRLINE Barber Shop Scene shot.

TRAILER Version 1 completed 7/18 dumped to DVD

Trailer DVD played at Clay reunion at White Hall 7/19
Mayor "very creative"

Maid - Spy Character Card added to Web 7-21

Shooting  Library, Galaxy Bowling completed by 7-28

New Richmond Register article 7-30-03

8-1-03 Lisa Curtsinger (Office manager) and
 Randy Wilson (Cinematographer) graduated

Woody's Bar scene shot 8-2-03 - may need VO 

Mayor's Cameo shot  8-19-03
No crew - Lois "crewed"
  
Purchased new Adobe Video package
Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Encore DV

  Special Trailer designed to be shown at the Herndon House reenactment Sat 8-30-03 with RAT production shown to Kiwanis 8-19-03

Cast Picnic at the Stotlers  October 4^th
 Pat & Elizabeth Stotler invited all cast, crew & extras for a picnic -  the Movie Trailer and some other edited scenes were previewed

Director in Hawaii (Oct 31-Nov4) creating the Music Score
 with Dr. Arthur Harvey who is currently at the University of Hawaii - Ohou and formerly of Eastern Kentucky University where the director and Dr. Harvey created the video series 
 Music and the Brain

Richmond Register article Nov 24 - that was the day I had just wiped out all computer files on the movie and re installed programs and in a sense - had nothing done- well still had what was on tape.

Added another 250 gig hard drive

December 30 - had about 26 minutes in can with audio problems.  Trying to use the location audio so i won't have to loop in a studio.

Jan30 have about 30 minutes in can - better audio some corrections on matching color from scene to scene and music added. 

Premiere target changed to June or July with the news that we will
 include a Movie production workshop on the day of the premiere.

Problems with DVD burner - Purchased New Dell computer with large storage capacity and tested DVD burner - Feb

No real progress since 1/27 when we had 39 minutes in can - consultant suggested changes - script partially rewritten by 3/17.

Directed TV portion of annual Kiwanis Auction 3/6

Director spending a lot of time at Aikido-earned yellow belt 3/18.

May 31st burned first successful DVD of the first 34 minutes  --  Scenes 1-62 which include the kids opening fight, the funeral and 2 songs in the chapel and arrival and blackmail of principals at White Hall

Director teaching Adult Computer Classes at EKU 
Funds used to increase Technology for Movie.

Director having difficulty getting ADOBE products 
record finished footage to  DVD.

July 4th 

Scenes 65 - 58 sans music  successfully exported to AVI.
Scenes 1-85c edited -- total movie about 45 minutes.  Maid and Rascal murdered and hunt for brief case continues.

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July 13, 04

Burned Scenes 1 through 85 onto DVD.  Have 48 minutes of nearly finished movie completed.  The scenes cover the kids outside the church, the funeral, some of the side room, and most of the White Hall
except the visiting motorist. 

Kathleen White is now the "chief dude" at White Hall.  She's working very hard and was even mowing the lawn when i saw her.  That is a story you'll have to get from her.

July 27

Been revising scenes 1-85 cutting down the music which was too loud once burned to DVD.  Reedited a few scenes to cover some errors that had crept into the video. Enhanced the cast audio that was low once burned.  Tried to export and burn - as usual after 4 hours - computer burped.

Shot the Kitchen scene at my house and showed the principals the July 13 DVD version.  They seemed reservedly acceptant of the product. 

February Premier looks possible now.  It took from February 2003 until July 13, 2004 to get the first 46 minutes in Beta and a good copy in August.  Today, September 9 2004,  I burned the First Hour successfully. 

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September  04

68 minutes successfully burned to DVD

October 12, 04

First 68 minutes were shown to test group of 42 adults - ages 45 - 83 on a bus traveling from Utah to Las Vegas, Nev.   The group gave many nice comments.  How did this happen?  While on vacation the director mentioned the movie and was requested to show it.  He just happened to have a copy with him.
  Some comments were a bit confusing.  One man said "delete all the kids scenes ... irrelevant" and another said "the kids scenes were the best part"--??

Only two of the 42 guessed correctly "Who dun it."

Hairline Barbershop scene edited.    11/04
Reporter scene at White Hall edited
Woody's Restaurant scene edited.
Woody's Bar Song scene edited.    11/19/04
Galaxy Bowling  2 Scenes edited.   11/24/04
Library-Computer Scene in process        11/26

December 09, 2004   GOSSiP Scenes   burned to DVD
      Movie  -  86 minutes long to date

Gossip scenes include:  Greg Stotlemeyer Reporter at White Hall,  Hairline Barbershop,  Woody's Restaurant  and  Bar Song,  Galaxy Bowling  2 Scenes,   Library-Computers.  Battlefield Cannon   

Bell Brezing page and links addes 12-10-04

All Scenes  Edited/RoughCut  and successfully burned to DVD

Premiere activities cancelled
plans included a seminar at EKU conducted in association with Eastern Kentucky University Department of Mass Communications but we missed the deadline for  successfully advertising and scheduling the event.  Director too busy with technological glitches and editing.

Jan 06,2005   scheduled
                             PREMIERE
    scheduled MARCH   5, 2005
                    Brock Auditorium
    at EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

Jan 18, 2005 Successfully burned all action shots including surprise ending to DVD with Beta DVD interface

February 19 showed Final Ver 3 to Dr. Janet Kenney in Moorehead.  On her player the opening 1/3 of the movie has music too loud.  So back to editor.

February 22  WKYT aired a short feature on the "Director's Dream."  Reporter Bobby Harrison interviewed Dr. Alice Jones, Tom Jones and the Larry Bobbert for the excellently produced piece.  He included excerpts from parts of the movie. It aired Tuesday evening about 5:50PM.
Piece produced by  "Bobby Harrison" <Bobby.Harrison@WKYT.com>

Kentucky Theatre
The director met with Fred Mills, Manager of the Kentucky Theatre.  Mr. Mills is trying to find a date in April to show the movie.

Contacted Duplicating services for DVDs.

Feb  26  Decision - DVD will not be ready at Premiere due to the 2 weeks the director lost going to Texas on a family crisis which included the death of his step father and the installing of his mother in a nursing home.-- and the daily calls from Kentucky to Texas trying to finalize the arrangements.

The following copied from prjt Log used by the director to keep track of where he was--had been - and what was lost

News Items along the journey
JULY
Kathleen White is now the director at White Hall.

March

Rusty,  "Got out of the hospital on Monday, and ...is doing great and ...test results... benign."  This note is  for anyone  "who needs to know" according to my source.
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Our Butler, Bob Eager,  drove his pickup truck into a creek roof down - wheels up.  He is back at the library working, but in a bit of pain..
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Max and Barbara -- I think- have twin grandchildren.
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Jason, our sheriff, was shot in the head Friday, but seemed ok at rehearsal Friday-- just a grazing shot.

Larry won the Area Toastmasters Evaluation contest--came in 3rd at district--"guess you can't win 'em all" he was heard to mutter.

Elizabeth (Ledford) Grandma 5-25?

Lisa Curtsinger (Office manager) &  Randy Wilson (Cinematographer) graduated 8-1-03 

Director goes to Hawaii to produce music for score

Rusty goes to Europe

Mayor and RAT looking at Herndon Barn as "theatre."

Mayor suggested possible use of the new community center for RAT's  spring/summer production by Dane.

Work to begin on ROSE BARN THEATRE--photo shoot Sat July 31, 2004.  The Battle of Richmond group will provide RAT with a new permanent home.

Director played John Miller in Pond Church's PIONEER CHRISTMAS dinner theatre production. Dec 10 and 11, 2004

Director cast as Mayor Shine in upcoming Music Man to be performed in the Rose Barn Theater.

Director's step father died and mother was installed in a nursing home.

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The following are providing locations for scenes

TURPIN FUNERAL HOME

GALAXY BOWLING

HAIRLINE

WOODIES

Cynthia Ondrias & Dillard's Fayette Mall 
formal dresses and suits

Paul Ramsey
Equipment Loan

EKU
Lights

Matt Crum 
Media Equipment consulting

March 5 - Premiere - over 200 attended - nice review in the Register by Mason Smith (click here to read it) 

March 12,13, 18 & 19   Movie played in EKU's Hummel planetarium. Small but appreciative audiences with many compliments on the writing and production of the movie.

March 21   Director Taking a hiatus from movie work (except the web site) and doing the DVD in May

April 12  planned Lexington Premiere - Wrote to ACE to see if they will carry it.  Delivered copy to Lexington Herald Leader in February - hoping for a review before April 12

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