Jeremy Sarka\’s Media Work

At last, the final version of Letters in the Sand, which will be screened on Wednesday, is available to the public at my website.  The flash video encoding may not be of the highest possible quality, but I think it looks pretty good.  I’ve also got three of my projects from last quarter on there, and four of my projects from Fall quarter (well not quite yet, they aren’t all finished encoding, but I’ll have all four up by the end of the day).  I’m hoping to get the rest of the projects I’ve done over the past two quarters uploaded by the end of the week, once I get my 16mm film back from AlphaCine.

You can check out what I’ve got so far at www.estimatedprophet.org/mediaworks/

OK, here it is…  the final cut.  Well, probably.  Tell me what you think of the changes I’ve made.  I think it’s all pretty good, but I’m not sure how reliable my judgement is at this late stage.  If there’s anything that really doesn’t work I’ll probably have time to change it tomorrow.

I can’t post such a large video on my blog, but you can see it here at my website:

http://www.estimatedprophet.org/mediaworks/letters_final_cut.mov

Here’s another two versions of the song to consider:

californiasunset10a

californiasunset10b

Tell me which one you like better.

I finally figured out how to post media files to my blog again: so here’s the latest cut of Letters in the Sand.  This one isn’t entirely complete–as you can see, there are some images towards the end that I decided to change, but haven’t decided what to change them to yet.  And I didn’t include the credits at all (to save space.)

Tell me what you think of these changes…

letters_cut_8

I just recorded two new acapella takes of “California Sunset”.

Which one do you think is better?

(There both in the same file)

californiasunset8_9

Here’s the final mix of the theme song:

californiasunset_final

Here’s the drum track and the (very rough) temp vocal track:

californiasunset6_tempvox

I’m working on the new mix of the theme song for my film.  I’m basically starting from the ground up.  First I recorded a temp drum track, and then converted that into a midi drum track in Digital Performer.  Here is the midi drum track (it doesn’t sound like much, but there’s more to come):

californiasunset_drums

Next I’m going to record a new vocal temp track, then a synth-bass track, then a synth-organ track, and then (at last) the final vocal track, and if I have time, a synth-guitar track and a second drum track.

For those who would like to see it:

http://www.estimatedprophet.org/mediaworks/letters_rough_edit5.mov

Just a little something to give you an idea of what it’s going to be like.  The titles are there to indicate what narration will go with which images.  First partial rough edit of Letters in the Sand (about 4 min, 5.3 MB): letters_rough_edit1