First day at DuArt and NYC

I have been in New York City for 3 days now, I arrived here on Monday. Since then I have (most notably) seen Times Square, Central Park,  and a fantastic, unbelievable and amazing Broadway show called La Cage aux Folles and staring Kelsey Grammar!

This morning I started my first day at the post-production house called DuArt in Midtown Manhattan! The first thing that stuck me (floored me!) when I walked in was the Academy Award sitting in a glass case in the lobby!! That was humbling. I started the day with a quick tour of the 11 floor facility. Then started into some typical intern-ee stuff organizing boxes. The project was sorting all of the boxes of all the original Pokemon tapes/clones/dubs/masters and all of the other random tapes they have from doing (and still doing) all the english dubing for Pokemon. After a nice lunch I came back and started working with actual editing using Pro Tools. I was taught (by a great teacher) how to use Pro Tools and I started working by myself in the edit suite. What I was doing was this:

 DuArt is working on english dubing for an italian cartoon show. Each episode is 3 minutes long, and entirely in Italian. I was given the english scripts with precise time-code for when each character starts and stops speaking each line. I watched the second half of the season (about 12 episodes) and made sure that the time-code matched up with the lines, and making sure that mistakes had not been made in the accuracy of the script (like a missed line or incorrect time code). This makes sure that when the actor come in to record the english the producer know what to capture from which actor. Doing that for all of the episodes I was given took about 3 hours. After that I was given the first half of the season (another 12 episodes). These had already had the english put over them, however the theme song for the open and close of the short had yet to be added. My task was to write down the IN and OUT time-code for each song so that an editor can put it in its place. That is where I got at the end of the day, so it's where I will start tomorrow!

(Pictured above is the edit suite I used while working with ProTools. The Suite also included a one person recording room where an actor can sit and we can record them, while they look at a screen with what we see in the edit screen)

All in all I am very pleased with DuArt and what I am doing there! More posts to come!