Lots of Exciting News – Sound

Over the past few weeks, Erin and I have been very busy as we bring “Abbie” closer to it’s finish. Since our last post we have had several more rough-cut screenings before locking off the cut apart from the animation.

We were both very pleased that both Tony Vaccher and Geri Green liked the cut enough to attach themselves to Abbie. Yay! Tony to do the sound mix and Geri to be our Music Composer. Since that time we’ve had several sound meetings with Xavier and Geri, both of whom have had some really exciting ideas.

- Taylor

Sound Screening

On Wednesday evening we had our first sound screening with myself, Erin, Fiona (our editor) and Xavier (our sound designer) the evening was a really great opportunity for us to evaluate how much work we really have ahead of us, and it's a lot! Xavier is now going away to create a test scene of sound design and music composition so we can better determine how much time we need to spend in the sound design process. Realising all the possibilities we have with sound made the evening exciting yet simultaneously daunting. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I am so grateful for the amazing ability Erin and I have harnessed by bringing both Xavier & Fiona on board on the project.

- Taylor.

1st Screening

Yesterday Erin and I had our first rough cut screening with our Editor Fiona Strain, our Executive Producer from Metro Screen David Opitz and a special guest Ian Brown from AFTRS.

The day went really well: David said it reaffirmed that he had made the right decision in choosing to give "Abbie" funding and Ian said it was a charming, sweet film, very slick. Aside from niceties, we had some really good constructive comments which are going to help us move forward in terms of refining the cut and the pace.

Bring on sound!

- Taylor.

THAT'S A WRAP!

2nd and final shoot day complete

We wrapped for the final time last night and I am so happy with what we have! Our actors, Jacinta and Franc were fantastic and the marvelous production design was certainly the talking point amongst extras.

Thank you so much to everyone involved, I couldn't have asked for a better team!

- Erin

1st Day Down, 1 More To Go

We concluded the first day of shooting for "Abbie" at 8.30pm yesterday night, amidst mixed feelings of exhaustion and exhilaration. I reviewed the rushes with the Editor and they look amazing! Time to start Day 2!

- Taylor.

Supporting Actor

We now have our supporting actor - Franc Violi who will be playing the role of The Boss! We had a number of people audition for the part many of whom were great but no one really stood out as being perfect for the role. We eventually came across Franc's showreel and called him in for an audition straight away. He impressed us immensely and we were very excited to cast him, so congratulations and welcome Franc.