Looking to 2009

If you go back to Lawson: The Force, the precursor to White Heat, you can say this movie is going on 3 and a half years in the making. Ideally in our perfect world we laid out, this wouldve been done Spring '07 like initial teasers well... teased. Now however, I am still hard at work on everything post production. Recently due to the holidays and my constant sickness since early November, my post production has been less productive than one of the coughs I'm having. I've gotten a fair amount done, but nothing like I'd hoped.

I'm sure the anticipation, and moreso the frustration is killing our four fans, but believe me, it's killing me too. Since I'm editing it all and all than crap I have seen everything from start to finish. There's some scenes I've seen a hundred times by now. To say I'm sick of them is an understatement, but I'm still impressed with them when all is said and done. It's going to be great to see it all in action all together and with a huge group of people to witness what hardwork and no cash can accomplish.

I've held off making bloopers since the one I did ages ago. There are two others out there as well, but my time is better spent with the actual movie. I'll save bloopers for the ending credits so people will stay and sit through them and stock around for what is hopefuly going to be a cool q&a session and after party at the premiere. Soon enough.

I hope to have an update again soon with new still shots, and maybe there will finally be a video tour of my editing shit and maybe a running commentary from me regarding a certain actors behavior on the set of the movie. What kind of jerk demands a trailer, catering, and girls when we have no money?

Keeping Busy

Hello!

While Barry is glued to his editing computers there are still a great many things to be done in the world of Lawson. We have a lot of little things we want to shoot either for the DVD or the big premiere we plan on having. There are some awesome things in the works and if they pan out you are all in for a treat.

I've been trying to get into the swing of recording some more music lately. Most of what I've been doing isn't specifically for the movie but I am using as practice for the Lawson Theme Song, for which I already have a finished demo. I want to polish it up and I have some more terrifically cheesy lyrics to go with it. I'm trying to get a little more skilled with my recording and editing before tackling my final take on the theme.

John, Barry and I have all been interested in taking a crack at scoring the movie but we can't really do that until we can see the scenes and how they are paced. Hopefully we can deliver some quality sounds to go with the already impressive-beyond-our-means sights. Maybe we'll just hire John Williams.

Thanks for reading and keeping up with your Lawson news!

-Tommy

TODAY'S LAWSON FUN FACT: Frank Stallone is jealous of the Lawson Theme Song.

Slow and steady

I've been holed up in my sweet office, staring at the screen, going through footage and just cutting the movie together. I am working on a gun fight/maze at the moment. My hope was to have it finished this weekend but I've got half done. The upside of it is the first half I have done, is chock full of effects and a ton of the post work is done for the gunfire, explosions, blood and all that stuff. These things add so much to the scene it's crazy.

I wish I had vacation time from work because I'd literally take two weeks and just sit there all day and try to get the rest of this done. It's happening at a steady pace, but man am I getting antsy. I need a new comfortable chair as well. That might help me too because I can only sit there for so long before needing a break and watching the celtics or csi or something. I will try to give an editing update every couple days or so and possibly put up new still images and if you two are lucky, maybe a nice ten second snippet of action

Barry

Don't FUCK with the babysitter!