No, it's not
done...just everything I can do until we know about
our guest star. After a week of incredible highs and
great discoveries and creations, I now get to sit for
probably close to a month and hope to hear from
Charlotte before I can complete the show. But let's
cheer up shall we? Because this was a SPECTACULAR
week. And let me tell you - 4tvs is magic. Magic like
Copperfield baby. I feel as a chemist would I guess. I
know the elements that go into it, I know how much of
each element and how to time it...but when it all
comes together, I'm still amazed at the result.
POOF!
What a week. I put
over 60 hours of work into The Trinitrons in only 4
days. I'm finding that my work ethic is just above and
beyond a normal human. To put it in perspective,
I turned down meeting Stevie Wonder, Magic
Johnson (both came to Callendar's within a week of
each other), and a free trip to Disneyland to work on
this project. My rationale? I'll be meeting those
people on "my terms" if this baby turns out
right...
And sweet JESUS is
it turning out right. I, Adam Kontras, do hereby SWEAR
TO YOU, that this will "stun" everyone who sees
it. Shock...amaze...you name it. You've never,
EVER seen anything like this. And why am
I saying this?
Well I set-up an
overnight render so I could watch the opening act
(9 minutes) fully rendered in 4 screens when
I woke up Thursday morning. The reason it's taken
so long just to get to this point, is because each one
of these tvs has a multitude of special effects within
them that have to be rendered, synced and completed
individually - then mastered to tape - before
I can scrunch them down into 4 corners of the
screen. I'm saving them all full screen just in case
I have the opportunity to do this in High
Definition one day... That basically quadruples my
normal workload - but in the long run will be worth
it. Well I had the opening act done but had to wait to
finish Spencer's TV because of the legalities of
showing a TV show in one of the TVs for a minute.
Spencer needs privacy while he changes and we flip to
"Full House" for a few moments. It's a nice set-up to
a joke and a perfect foreshadowing of the end. ;-)
Anyway, so I sat on the first act and moved
on...finished close to 20 minutes worth until finally
last night I could go ahead with the Full House
bit and then FINALLY rendered the 1st act
overnight.
What I awoke
to was slightly reminiscent to November of '98 when
I thought of 4tvs. I was still half asleep
when I sat down to the computer to press play - and it
took about 2 minutes...but then it hit me. This
overwhelming feeling of awe. As if I hadn't done 17
4tvs sets before, right? But this was much different.
The second the TVs open their curtains and start
parading around their sets - you can't help but smile.
Remember in Roger Rabbit when at the end of the
opening cartoon - Baby Herman just walks off the set
and into the real world? It feels like that. Then as
you watch each TV say their lines to each other
SO PERFECTLY TIMED you'd swear to
GOD this is 4 different people, that smile starts
to turn into an open jawed GAPE. Then the kicker of
all kickers...it's not edited. These are one-takes
done in every sense LIVE. It's like great theater. It
works on such a professional level that network
television seems wholly approachable - if not
"changeable". By that I mean, this could be one of
those TRULY unique concepts that grabs everybody's
attention nationwide. How it translates to the small
screen still escapes me but honestly, these first 9
minutes (even without seeing/hearing
LIVE ADAM interract), is SO much more
entertaining than most of the shit on TV right
now. Granted I'm a weeeee bit biased here, but I'm
also logical to my CORE. This is it. This is
special.
Bottom line, and
I'll stop babbling about this, is that I am
THE most self-critical person I know - and
I am in complete and utter awe. It's becoming
increasingly difficult for me to sleep. It's also been
really difficult to not bring every single person I
know at this apartment building into my apartment to
watch this shit. As you may have guessed (ahem 136
entries later), I'm not one to keep things to myself.
But I'm trying oh so desperately to hold off here, so
when I actually perform this - people will have
the same sense of SHOCK I had yesterday when I
saw it all work. Incredible.
Back to
reality...I've finished the show all the way up to the
point in which the guest star enters. This is where I
absolutely dreaded to be. I have a feeling the
weeks will just start to slip away, and I can do
nothing to help further this process. I am growing my
goatee back for Cameron (which we need to shoot the
guest star's part), but in order to finish the rest of
the show I need to be LIVE ADAM who has a sort've
van dyke-ish goatee. He appears in the opening bit as
well as a special sequence during the final song. I
can't shoot THAT footage without shaving some of
"Cameron's" goatee - which I obviously can't do
because of the guest star. GRRR.
So now
I just sit, hope, and pray. Ticky,
ticky, ticky, tocky... but you can
enjoy
the
video.
It's a clip of Spencer's fantasy set. I
was trying to put together part of the
dialogue, but it just doesn't come off
online very well. Too much missing
scrunched down so far. It's just as well
though...it'll be a great suprise when you
all finally see it.
