Time for a quick update: During the last two weeks we basicly finished the synchronisation in Leipzig but for my part because after only three minutes in the country I got allergies big time. Anyway, the Korg of our chief of sound Tom paid itself, it fits in a suitcase and gives you studio quality.

The podium discussion of the re:publica conference did no go so well for me, the few sceptics present I could have met with more eloquence. Afterwards, you always know better. I wonder if we can wipe away the smug „Your movies cost 25 grand? Keep playing undisturbed, kids“- grin from their faces with the publishing of “The Last Drug“..We will see!

Gerald is working already on the "3D-Stack", which contains all shots modelled virtually or which require for example the horizon rendered in later. At the moment there are 30 shots between 0.5 and 10 seconds partly with panning or a moving camera. Lots of wood.

Matze is starting with the compositing. There is a "Compositing-Stack": on top go the ready-cut scenes from me as Premiere-project-data and at the bottom the clips pimped and rendered loss-free by Matze come out. By then all flaws (power cords, continuity mistakes etc.) in the pictures are removed, they are colour corrected, some are illuminated artificially, blurs are added if necessary and backgrounds or objects are constructed virtually by Gerald and rendered in. This "Compositing-Stack" consists of pretty much all shots of the movie (ca. 2000 at the moment), since at least a colour correction is always due. That means for the next months any walk in the park is out of the question for Matze :/

Tom is still waiting for a somewhat final raw cut, so he can add the thousands of O-sounds, monologues, dialogues, programmed sounds, atmos and songs he created meanwhile to the timeline. We are dying to see how the raw cut will appear like. What I heard so far is fat as expected.

Martin is beginning to organize the premiere in Leipzig which will take place with the support of the crew of Heil Automobil AG At the same time the movie will go online. As soon as we know a date you will hear from us!

I myself am finishing a few administrative things and then continue with the cutting on which everything depends at the moment- thats why I ask you to excuse me if I am not blogging as much right now.

In June there will be a Route 66-Special in Spiegel Online where we will contribute a relevant part. For that we will publish some new Route 66-material here as well!