What’s a THROAT CHAKRA? Happy New Year! TID Update time…

Good Afternoon, Internet Community!

I trust that everyone is well and had a lovely new year! Mine was quite lovely – I went up north to visit my family and our fearless director, Ryan Pomeranz (btw, the fearless part – not true… i’ve seen him scream at spiders). Ryan and I got to sit down and watch a new whole cut of the film together and start to pare down the 3 hr cut into something less resembling Ben Hur (4 hours) and more like Disney’s Aladdin (90 minutes). For those who follow our Twitter – you may have seen this photo of us clearly working diligently. If you didn’t see that picture, you should consider following us on twitter.

The type of gem you're missing out by not following us on twitter!

Anyways it was great to get to work in the same location as Ryan for a bit- and we are continuing this new year with this good momentum that I imparted upon you in December and carrying over with the new work that I have already seen and the good things that are coming.

Summarizing our plan of attack:

Ryan is in NYC editing.

Dan is in Indiana editing.

Scott is in California color correcting.

Jason is in Orlando beginning to compose music.

And Allie is in Miami working on TID post and trying to figure out where the rest of the people are.

Thank god for the internet or else none of this would be possible. FTP servers, Dropbox, and Google Docs are powering this operation and making this incredible feat possible. Without these things, we would never be able to sync different copies of these all over the country without shipping drives with gigs of files back and forth. Plus it is much faster and cheaper (see: nearly free) to use these instead of multiple cloned hard drives.

 

OK, more about TID in a sec…

but now is the time of the month when I visit Dharma Studio Yoga and learn about aligning your personal energies through focus on the 7 chakras with Veronica Vidal in her workshops. Last month’s focus was on the Heart Chakras which I was working on this past month as part of the workshop. As part of our lesson – Veronica had talked about doing things with love, but also guides in understanding, acceptance, respect and all kinds of good ideals along that vein. Continuing my pattern of applying this to our TID progress, it was nice to actually get a chance to talk with Ryan about the scenes, characters, and dialogue that have evaded us in prior conversations because we have not physically been in the same place to watch the full cut. Sure, we go through and talk about these things satellitely but it is an entirely different thing to be physically able to look at a scene together and decide that even though we may like something or that it may have been tremendously difficult to do, that it may get cut or that character may get less screen time, or we can’t use the beauty shots all the time just cause they look nice.

Sooo now, this month, our lesson focuses on the Throat Chakra. It was another lovely lesson led by Veronica, reviewing last month’s chakra, introducing us to the Throat Chakra its relation to the other chakras, its effects when imbalanced, and how to stimulate our Throat Chakras. As usual, I shall decline to cheapen the lessen here, but I still strongly encourage anyone with an interest in personal energies to come out for the next chakra workshop focusing on the Third Eye Chakra on February 18th. And you can apply them not just to the self – but to something like, I don’t know – a MOVIE – or something….

The Throat Chakra as you may have guessed has a lot to do with your abilities to articulate and understand as well as understating and using non-verbal communications. We shall check back and see how these truths can help us to progress with editing as we are making tough decisions about overall structure, trying to keep within a shorter total running time and in general continue with the progress.

We shall see if this can help us tell a better story – or to help us find the best story.

 

Namaste,

Allie

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