Friday, July 3, 2009

Wild Track, Wild Sound, Wild Lines

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Wild track
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Wild track, also known as wild sound and wild lines, is an audio recording intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately. Generally, the term "wild track" refers to sound recorded on location, such as sound effects gathered when the cameras were not rolling or extra takes of lines performed for audio only.

[edit] Reasons to record wild track

* When only the sound is needed, not the image; for example, recording a scream that will be heard off-camera.
* When it is impossible to get good sound and video in the same take; for example, when actors are in a situation (such as the middle of a field in wide shot) that makes boom recording impractical and no wireless mics are available.
* When a take was good visually but there was a sound disturbance, and repeating the entire take is impractical.
* To obtain room tone (the background noise of a location) which is necessary for post-production sound editing.

Note that wild track is considered something of a "cheapie" solution to these problems, and a big-budget production is more likely to use studio-recorded sound in these situations, as its quality is more controllable and predictable than wild track.

[edit] Procedures related to wild track

* Dubbing, Automated Dialogue Replacement, in which actors read their lines in a studio setting to match lip movements already filmed.
* Voiceover, in which a voice track is used but not synchronized with onscreen action.
* Foley, in which sound effects are created in a studio.
* Scratch track, a temporary sound recording intended to be replaced later

Sailor gunned down on sentry duty, Navy says

THERE'S SOMETHING MORE TO THIS STORY!!!

Sailor gunned down on sentry duty, Navy says

* Story Highlights
* Fire was set to cover up shooting, U.S. Navy says
* Seaman August Provost's death being investigated as homicide
* Congressman calls for investigation of possible hate crime
* Body was discovered at 3:30 a.m., during Provost's shift on sentry duty

By Taylor Gandossy
CNN

(CNN) -- A sailor found dead earlier this week at California's Camp Pendleton was shot while standing sentry, and a fire was set in an attempt to cover up evidence, the U.S. Navy said.

The death of Seaman August Provost of Houston, Texas, is being investigated as a homicide, Capt. Matt Brown told reporters on Thursday. A sailor is in custody in the case, Brown said.

Although at least one of Provost's relatives said she believes he was killed because of his sexual orientation and his race, Brown said there was no indication the killing was a hate crime. A U.S. congressman also said on Friday there are indications Provost may have been killed because of his sexual orientation.

Provost was killed while he was standing guard as a sentry for the Assault Craft Unit 5 compound at Camp Pendleton, Brown said. He had begun the shift at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, and his body was discovered by his replacement around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"Preliminarily, it appears that Seaman Provost suffered gunshot wounds and it appears that someone attempted to destroy evidence by lighting a fire at Seaman Provost's assigned place of duty," Brown said.

Provost's aunt, Rose Roy, of Beaumont, Texas, said by telephone on Friday that her nephew had told her he was being harassed because of his sexual orientation and because he was African-American. She described him as bisexual.

"He mentioned it to me and a couple other family members," she said of the harassment, and said he had first told her about it sometime last year.

"He was frustrated by it," she said. She said she had advised him to speak to someone of higher rank, but said she wasn't sure if he had done so.

"He went to serve and protect, but he didn't get the protection," she said. Brown said Thursday that he had no information on claims of harassment.

Asked whether she believed her nephew was killed because of race and sexual orientation, she said, "In my heart, I do." She added, "it was like an execution-style killing, and nobody does that unless you have that kind of hatred in your heart."

The Navy has one sailor in custody who "has been linked to the commission of this crime through both physical evidence and his own statement," Brown said.

He did not identify the sailor, who has not been charged with wrongdoing. It is unclear if the sailor served with Provost in the same unit.

A second sailor whom authorities initially questioned has since been released, Brown said.

He said the Navy has no indication that Provost's death is a hate crime, although he emphasized the investigation is ongoing.

"What I can tell you, unequivocally at this point, based on the preliminary information that we have, is that regardless of the person standing watch in that sentry station, this crime would have most likely been carried out in the same way," he said.

"In other words, another sailor could have been on that post and would have been the victim of this crime."

Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, has called for a full and transparent investigation. Asked Friday if Provost was killed because of his sexual orientation, he said, "There are indications that that's the case. His family says he was harassed."

Filner said he was on Camp Pendleton hours after Provost's body was found, although no one told him of the killing.

"When I was on the base for another event, the commander of the base was sitting next to me and never mentioned a word, which I find very strange," he said.

He said he was asking for the "truth of what happened."

"We're going to ask, if I may coin a phrase, and we hope that they tell," he said.

Roy said her nephew was "a good kid," who didn't have a "bad bone in his body" and had loved the Navy. He joined the service in March 2008, according to Brown.

"He was a people person," Roy said. "If he could give you the shirt off his back, he would."

A funeral has been planned for July 10 in Houston, she said.

"We loved him dearly," she said.

All AboutMurder and Homicide • Camp Pendleton

Michael Jackson Public Memorial Service

Michael Jackson Public Memorial Service
Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 10:00 a.m.
STAPLES Center, Los Angeles, California

The Michael Jackson Public Memorial Service will take place on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. at STAPLES Center in downtown Los Angeles, California and simulcast inside to Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE across the street. A limited number of free tickets to both venues will be made available for Michael Jackson's fans to attend.

Due to the expected overwhelming demand, the following procedures have been set to accommodate registration for the tickets. Please note that by registering for tickets to attend the Public Memorial Service, it does NOT guarantee the registrant tickets.

The opportunity to register for tickets begins at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, July 3, 2009 and ends at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, July 4, 2009.

Please enter your information below for your chance to receive two tickets, that will be randomly distributed for either STAPLES Center or Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE to attend the Michael Jackson Public Memorial Service. Only one entry per individual will be accepted. Registering to attend the Public Memorial Service is NOT a guarantee of tickets. Two tickets will be issued to each randomly selected attendee.

http://staplescenter.com/memorial.php

"THIS IS IT!" - MICHAEL JACKSON'S FINAL REHEARSAL FOOTAGE!!

Here it is!!! WOW!!! Michael Jackson's Final Rehearsal Footage!!! AMAZING, THRILLING, AWESOME!!!

Michael Jackson's "This Is It" Auditions

OMG - I saw footage on Nancy Grace's show from last night of Michael Jackson's Rehearsal two days before his death for his "This Is It" Tour.

SERIOUSLY - I GOT CHILLS!!! HE IS AWESOME!!!

The footage is not available on YouTube yet BUT the auditions ARE!!!

They are equally as thrilling to watch!!!

Leather Jacket Love Story

This is a clip from the first movie I ever did. Someone posted the ENTIRE movie on YouTube and it's still up. I'm surprised because there's a LOT of nudity in this movie.

I edited the clip I was in and made it PG-13 so I can post.



http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie980521-4,0,5481853.story
MOVIE REVIEW
Leather Jacket Love Story
Genuine Characters Inhabit Outrageous 'Leather' World
By KEVIN THOMAS
LA TIMES STAFF WRITER

May 21, 1998


Friday May 22, 1998

David DeCoteau's "Leather Jacket Love Story" could well be the sunniest gay movie ever made, yet it is also genuinely poignant. It's campy, raunchy and funny as well, glowing with an unabashed gay sensibility. It's no less perceptive for having been made with a light touch and an ear for broad humor and has an easy, graceful style heightened by Howard Wexler's beautifully modulated black-and-white cinematography.
An aspiring 18-year-old poet, a towheaded Valley boy named Kyle (Sean Tataryn), decides to take an apartment in Silver Lake for the summer before enrolling in UCLA in the fall. He's gotten tired of hanging out with his best friend Ian (Geoffrey Moody), a determined hedonist with a house in the hills with a pool populated by a revolving door of "Chads and Brads," well-built guys who swim in the nude. Ian thinks Kyle is crazy to forsake West Hollywood sex and glitz for Silver Lake bohemia, but Kyle is serious about his poetry.
Kyle is drawn to a local coffee shop, a magnet for drag divas and a site for poetry readings hosted by none other than "Pink Flamingos' " Mink Stole. One day Kyle is transfixed when in walks a good-looking man in a leather jacket, having arrived on a motorcycle, natch. The newcomer spots Kyle staring at him, and in turn likes what he sees.
He's Mike (Christopher Bradley), a 29-year-old carpenter and roofer in a seven-year partnership, now more professional than romantic, with Sam (Hector Mercado). Mike is a hunky, easygoing guy who effortlessly sweeps Kyle off his feet.
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Writer Rondo Mieczkowski and DeCoteau know exactly what they're doing and where they're going with their blithe romantic fantasy. Their romance is as tender as it is hot, and the filmmakers could not be more deft in steering it in a credible direction. They know how to camp it up and take sex right to the edge of hard core, but they also know how to be subtle and sensitive in depicting Kyle and Mike's relationship.
Most important, perhaps, is that the filmmakers are inclusive. In their gay world there's room for young guys like Kyle, older guys like Sam (about to celebrate his 40th birthday) and leather types like Mike. At a poetry reading there's pioneer gay rights activist Morris Kight, amusing as a grumpy poet. And then there are the local divas--Madame Dish (Stephen J. McCarthy), Erin Krystle, Craig Olsen, Momma (Worthie Meacham), Daniel Escobar, Ruby Tuesday and Moist Towelette--on hand to dispatch gay bashers, dispense bitchy humor and not a little wisdom besides.
The best advice to Kyle comes from a middle-aged poet (Nicholas Worth, in a stylishly theatrical turn) who reminds the youth that he needs to write about what he knows--and what he needs to know most is love.
Amid much that's deliberately and delightfully outrageous, DeCoteau directs Tataryn and Bradley toward giving legitimate, winning portrayals. "Leather Jacket Love Story" may be a fantasy, a crowd-pleaser with lots of laughs, but Kyle and Mike are for real.

Leather Jacket Love Story, 1998. Unrated. A Goldeco Pictures presentation. Director David DeCoteau. Producer Jerry Goldberg. Executive producer Bruce Baker. Screenplay by Rondo Mieczkowski. Cinematographer Howard Wexler. Editor Jeffrey Schwarz. Music Jeremy Jordan. Costumes Edward Hibbs. Production designer Jeannie Lomma. Art director Brian Virwani. Set decorator Jeffrey Morris. Running time: 1 hour, 25 minutes. Sean Tataryn as Kyle. Christopher Bradley as Mike. Geoffrey Moody as Ian. Hector Mercado as Sam.

NY TIMES
February 20, 1998
'Leather Jacket Love Story'; Directed by David DeCoteau; Not rated; 85 minutes
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: February 20, 1998

Can Kyle (Sean Tataryn), a dewy and tow-headed 18-year-old poet from Sherman Oaks, find true love in the arms of Mike (Christopher Bradley), a well-traveled 30-year-old carpenter in a black leather jacket who scorns what he calls ''vanilla sex'' (any coupling not involving handcuffs and other heavy-duty hardware)? That's the question hanging breathlessly over ''Leather Jacket Love Story,'' the movie equivalent of a gay romance novel that opens today at the Quad Cinemas (13th Street, west of Fifth Avenue, in Greenwich Village).

Filmed in gay clubs and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, the black-and-white film has moments that border on hard-core pornography without actually going over the edge. Under Mike's affectionate guidance, Kyle buys his first black leather jacket and has one of his nipples pierced. The movie, directed by David DeCoteau from a screenplay by Rondo Mieczkowski that strains for its jokes, includes a sassy Greek chorus of wisecracking drag queens, three of whom band together to rescue Kyle when he is menaced on the street by a gang of gay bashers.

By the end of the amateurish but energetically frothy movie, Kyle has grown significantly as a poet. Instead of churning out tortured images of the pitiless stars looking down from heaven, he makes his poetry-reading debut in a coffee house with verses exalting the aroma of Mike's leather jacket. And Mike seems to reform his wayward ways, at least temporarily. He ostentatiously tears up the telephone number of a man he has just picked up on the street and takes Kyle in his arms for some very vanilla-flavored smooches. STEPHEN HOLDEN

`Leather' Doesn't Fit in Places

Bob Graham, Chronicle Staff Critic

Friday, December 18, 1998

ALERT VIEWER LEATHER JACKET LOVE STORY: Romantic comedy. Starring Sean Tataryn and Christopher Bradley. Directed by David DeCoteau. (Not rated. 85 minutes. At the Lumiere.)
The contrasting worlds of drag queens and leather queens in L.A.'s Silverlake district form the background for ``Leather Jacket Love Story,'' a lightweight -- not the same thing as lighthearted -- gay comedy that opens today at the Lumiere.

The drag performances in particular run hot and cold, which pretty much sums up the film. It is by no means the romp the bouncy soundtrack intends to signal it as.

The tone of the comedy has a slight satirical edge that doesn't go far enough in this story of a good- hearted 18-year-old innocent named Kyle (Sean Tataryn) who desires a life of monogamous bliss after an all-night stand with a 30ish biker (Christopher Bradley).

Kyle calls himself a poet but is so sappy, as his poetry confirms, that it's hard to imagine him holding anyone's attention for long, either Mike the biker's (Bradley) or the audience's.

A couple of unfunny drag queens stop the action cold every time they open their mouths, but another trio of cross-dressers (Erin Krystle, Craig Olsen and Mink Stole) shows up regularly as a kind of Greek chorus, if you catch my drift, and make up for their sisters.

There is a lot more nudity than anyone might expect in a film like this, an otherwise modest affair in black and white. Bradley has presence and can deliver a line and benefits from the exposure he gets.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/12/18/DD9951.DTL

Top 100 Hits of 1999/Top 100 Songs of 1999

Someone on Twitter asked what song we would like to hear from 10 years ago. I had to look back and see what I was listening to. I DEFINITELY was a fan of Cher's "Believe."

I just can't believe some of these songs are 10 years old like Britney's "Baby One More Time."

She has had a VERY LONG 15 minutes of fame!!!

Top 100 Hits of 1999/Top 100 Songs of 1999

1. Believe, Cher
2. No Scrubs, TLC
3. Angel Of Mine, Monica
4. Heartbreak Hotel, Whitney Houston
5. ...Baby One More Time, Britney Spears
6. Kiss Me, Sixpence None The Richer
7. Genie In A Bottle, Christina Aguilera
8. Every Morning, Sugar Ray
9. Nobody's Supposed To Be Here, Deborah Cox
10. Livin' La Vida Loca, Ricky Martin
11. Where My Girls At?, 702
12. If You Had My Love, Jennifer Lopez
13. Slide, Goo Goo Dolls
14. Have You Ever?, Brandy
15. I Want It That Way, Backstreet Boys
16. I'm Your Angel, R. Kelly and Celine Dion
17. All Star, Smash Mouth
18. Angel, Sarah McLachlan
19. Smooth, Santana Featuring Rob Thomas
20. Unpretty, TLC
21. Bills, Bills, Bills, Destiny's Child
22. Save Tonight, Eagle-Eye Cherry
23. Last Kiss, Pearl Jam
24. Fortunate, Maxwell
25. All I Have To Give, Backstreet Boys
26. Bailamos, Enrique Iglesias
27. What's It Gonna Be?!, Busta Rhymes Featuring Janet
28. What It's Like, Everlast
29. Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz
30. Someday, Sugar Ray
31. Lately, Divine
32. That Don't Impress Me Much, Shania Twain
33. Wild Wild West, Will Smith Featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee
34. Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers
35. Heartbreaker, Mariah Carey Featuring Jay-Z
36. I Still Believe, Mariah Carey
37. The Hardest Thing, 98 Degrees
38. Summer Girls, LFO
39. Can I Get A..., Jay-Z Featuring Amil (Of Major Coinz) and Ja
40. Jumper, Third Eye Blind
41. Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn Hill
42. Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...), Lou Bega
43. Sweet Lady, Tyrese
44. It's Not Right But It's Okay, Whitney Houston
45. (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You, 'N Sync
46. Lullaby, Shawn Mullins
47. Anywhere, 112 Featuring Lil'Z
48. Tell Me It's Real, K-Ci and JoJo
49. Back 2 Good, Matchbox 20
50. 808, Blaque
51. She's So High, Tal Bachman
52. She's All I Ever Had, Ricky Martin
53. Miami, Will Smith
54. Hands, Jewel
55. Who Dat, JT Money Featuring Sole
56. Please Remember Me, Tim McGraw
57. From This Moment On, Shania Twain
58. Love Like This, Faith Evans
59. You, Jesse Powell
60. Trippin', Total Featuring Missy Elliott
61. If You (Lovin' Me), Silk
62. Ex-Factor, Lauryn Hill
63. Give It To You, Jordan Knight
64. Black Balloon, Goo Goo Dolls
65. Spend My Life With You, Eric Benet Featuring Tamia
66. These Are The Times, Dru Hill
67. I Don't Want To Miss A Thing, Mark Chesnutt
68. I Do (Cherish You), 98 Degrees
69. Because Of You, 98 Degrees
70. I Will Remember You (Live), Sarah McLachlan
71. Chante's Got A Man, Chante Moore
72. Happily Ever After, Case
73. My Love Is Your Love, Whitney Houston
74. All Night Long, Faith Evans Featuring Puff Daddy
75. Back That Thang Up, Juvenile Featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil' Wayne
76. Almost Doesn't Count, Brandy
77. Man! I Feel Like A Woman!, Shania Twain
78. Steal My Sunshine, Len
79. I Need To Know, Marc Anthony
80. So Anxious, Ginuwine
81. Faded Pictures, Case and Joe
82. Back At One, Brian McKnight
83. When A Woman's Fed Up, R. Kelly
84. How Forever Feels, Kenny Chesney
85. Amazed, Lonestar
86. Sometimes, Britney Spears
87. Ghetto Cowboy, Mo Thugs Family Featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
88. Out Of My Head, Fastball
89. Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem), Jay-Z
90. Jamboree, Naughty By Nature Featuring Zhane
91. Take Me There, BLACKstreet and Mya Featuring Mase and Blinky Blink
92. Stay The Same, Joey McIntyre
93. Lesson In Leavin', Jo Dee Messina
94. Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
95. Satisfy You, Puff Daddy Featuring R. Kelly
96. Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out), Citizen King
97. Music Of My Heart, 'N Sync and Gloria Estefan
98. Write This Down, George Strait
99. When You Believe, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
100. God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, Alabama Featuring 'N Sync