The official release in Spain of Antonio de la Malena´s double CD took place on Feb. 23, 2013, as an official part of the annual Flamenco Festival of Jerez de la Frontera. The festival presented it in the city´s second to largest theater, Sala la Compañía.
Antonio de la Malena decided to make the event a form of thanking all those who participated in creating his flamenco album (most especially, in the bulerias fin de fiesta in which over eight people, including of course de la Malena, took turns singing). In addition, he wanted to recognize his brother-in-law, singer Mateo Solea, who helped de la Malena´s career at a critical juncture when de la Malena was a child.
So he gave all these people a public role in his presentation, inviting them to sing a little, or give rhythm (palmas, or nudos, or jaleo).
And he wanted to include the dancer María del Mar Moreno, in recognition of all the years he has worked with her, so she danced near the end of the presentation.
Palomino Productions and yours truly were the official producers of this event, so of course I was there. In the excitement, I forgot to bring my camera. SORRY!!!
But not to worry. The local press and TV caught it all, and here is one of the reviews with a video at the bottom taken from the presentation. If you don´t read Spanish, just skip to the bottom and watch the trailer.
The old man you see sitting next to de la Malena at the beginning, and dancing a little at the end, is his father, who can hardly walk (and so his dance isn´t really a dance). It was a very emotional moment for him, especially since one thing de la Malena sang about was his mother, who died not too long ago...and his father still misses her tremendously.
So click on the link below, and enjoy.
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If you are interested in learning more about the double CD, or in purchasing it, if you live in Europe go HERE, and if you live in America, go HERE.
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And more post-production: Sound sweetening and adding sound
FYI: If you´re interested in the situation about which Domino is based, you should check out my blog on PalominoPro.blogspot.com, in which I spill the beans about the recent, shocking (shocking to me) garbage strike in Jerez. You can also go to this LINK to read a summary of the situation.
Now, back to Domino: Caught in the Crisis:
We have very little left to go on Domino before it´s officially presentable, and I´m able to start submitting it to festivals.
Most of that work is sound work. On the one hand, in the private screening I held in California a few weeks back, it was clear that I needed to add a few more words of dialogue to make it clear that our hero, Luis, is a very sympathetic character. That has been done even though we didn´t shoot any more film, and the actor is in one country while I, the director and editor, am in another one.
Ah, the magic of film.
The rest of the sound work is tedious and technical. It´s a question of making the sound come out of the left speaker if the character is on the left hand side of the screen, and on the right if s/he is on the right, etc. PLUS perfecting the sound levels, making telephone conversations sound like they are coming over a telephone wire, etc., etc., etc.
A very nice sound person, Jeff Kimmich, is working on all this for me. He expects to be done in a week or so. I´ve never used him before but am hopeful that he will do a great job.
Assuming he does a brilliant job and it´s done in the time frame he expects, the last thing will be to ask an image correction person to make a change in one 6 second segment, in which (SIGH) a microphone is visible on screen. I have a person who I think can do the job, and so, well,
...WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
When all the work is done and I´m ready to submit to festivals, I´m going to stop posting here and instead, ask people to check out the main Palomino Productions blog, where I´ll consolidate all my posts about all my projects.
OUR NEXT POST will be to confirm that the final, technical work on Domino is completed.
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We have very little left to go on Domino before it´s officially presentable, and I´m able to start submitting it to festivals.
Most of that work is sound work. On the one hand, in the private screening I held in California a few weeks back, it was clear that I needed to add a few more words of dialogue to make it clear that our hero, Luis, is a very sympathetic character. That has been done even though we didn´t shoot any more film, and the actor is in one country while I, the director and editor, am in another one.
Ah, the magic of film.
The rest of the sound work is tedious and technical. It´s a question of making the sound come out of the left speaker if the character is on the left hand side of the screen, and on the right if s/he is on the right, etc. PLUS perfecting the sound levels, making telephone conversations sound like they are coming over a telephone wire, etc., etc., etc.
A very nice sound person, Jeff Kimmich, is working on all this for me. He expects to be done in a week or so. I´ve never used him before but am hopeful that he will do a great job.
Assuming he does a brilliant job and it´s done in the time frame he expects, the last thing will be to ask an image correction person to make a change in one 6 second segment, in which (SIGH) a microphone is visible on screen. I have a person who I think can do the job, and so, well,
...WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
When all the work is done and I´m ready to submit to festivals, I´m going to stop posting here and instead, ask people to check out the main Palomino Productions blog, where I´ll consolidate all my posts about all my projects.
OUR NEXT POST will be to confirm that the final, technical work on Domino is completed.
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