The movie is done, long live "The Nail."

Today is Wednesday evening September 17th and last night was the first true good nights sleep I've had in quite a while. Unfortunately is was not all that great because we both tossed and turned knowing that the house painters were going to be here at 8:30 this morning. But at least we were both home together. It has been a long three weeks.

I started working on "The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone", back on August 18th. I started by editing the production dialogue. It was supposed to take 40 hours, but ended up over 70. Then it was off to Oahu with Dan until the 31st. It was a great break. Six days of kiting.

Upon returning to L.A. it was right back to the movie. I started by walking the Foley, which is making sound effects to the picture. Punches, foot steps, hand pats, etc. Then we went into the pre-mix of all the sounds with my co-mixer Charles Dayton. We finished the mix on Tuesday morning at about 3 A.M. at Sony Pictures in Culver City.

I took this picture as Charles and I were driving home at about 2 A.M. Tuesday morning.

We were in this room all day Friday, all day Saturday, and all day Monday. We left Tuesday morning in the wee hours.

This is the mixing console we used to finish the movie. The sound was in 5.1 surround sound.

There were five of us that were the post sound team. From l-r Jamie Quattrochi (director), Tony Luke, jr.(lead actor, writer and producer), Charles Dayton (Supervising Sound Editor/Mixer), myself (Dialogue editor/mixer and music editor/mixer) and Mason Cooper the camera person as well as music supervisor.

Here is Mason Cooper with Tony and Jamie.

At one point on Monday Leo Rossi (center) visited the mix stage. Leo played "Petey" in the film. He was also one of the producers of the film. He is also a long time friend of Tony's, and he was his acting mentor on the set.

Charles and I play all of the sounds and try to blend all to the dialogue, music, sound effects, Foley and backgrounds to make the scenes fell natural and "real" even though many of the scenes are actually on sets.

After all those hours of massaging the various sounds there are very small "tweaks" that are done to make it sound even better. Adding reverb to this sound, taking out the high end of that sound, adding bass to some of the punches. All little touches that will make the view get pulled into the movie so you feel it's really happening....on the screen.

There is supposed to be a screening tomorrow for the executives and an invitation only screening on Monday the 22nd. At this point the show is "DONE" but you never know about movies, very often they come back to do little fixes to this and that.

Regarding SOUNDS CONTRIBUTION to this movie. I personally think our sound track took a moderate budget movie and made it sound like a much BIGGER movie. To me it seems like the sound, because it's big and bold, and all around you, it makes you stay in the moment and draws you into the film. Of course I could be a little bias. You can check out "The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone" on imdb.com. also check on the director James "Jamie" Quattrochi. He is being considered for a 5 picture deal. Click on Tony Luke, Jr. He's the lead actor, writer and producer (http://www.tonylukes.com/tlj.htm). Tony was fantastic to work with. What a great guy. A real rags to riches story, and he runs a very successful sandwich business in Philadelphia,

Yesterday was also the first day home for Ruth. She's been in Portland Oregon with her pack of girl friends for four days and basically we are both recuperating......until yesterday afternoon when she reminded me that painters were coming this morning to repaint the two bathrooms. Since moving in and after the house was completely re-painted, she was never satisfied with the bathrooms. Her decorator friend Bruce came over last week and they selected colors and a paint crew. Today we are all making her happy with new wall colors. Coral for the guest powder room on the first floor and aqua for the Master bathroom.

The Powder Room.

The Master Bathroom.

That's all for now.