Production Notes: Storyboard and misc.

Here is an updated on what has been happening these past couple of weeks:

I re-worked one of the club's Amiga 1200 so that it is now usable: Zip Drives, CD-ROM and such. I used this during a Novice SIG meeting to show how you could use an Amiga as a sound recorder by using an audio digitizer and a sound sampling program ( Applied Visions Future Sound audio digitizer and Aegis' Audio Master II).

I have a version of LINUX running on my schizophrenic main computer. It now run THREE different operating systems: LINUX Fedora Core 3, MS WindowsME and AmigaOS 3.1. The last operating system is run using a packaged version of WinUAE, AmigaForever 6.x distributed by Cloanto, running on top of Windows.

I am updating my old storyboard to include the new material and have did a rough draft (pen and paper) version and I am now entering the segments into web type pages and as postscript files, for printing and inclusion in our Users Group's Journal - Northwest Amiga Journal. I have gotten as far as to the point where the kid makes it into Innsmouth. I am using WebPlug, by Esteve Boix, to edit the HTML files, Personal Paint, from Cloanto, for graphics and Professional Page, from Gold Disk, to do the DTP files. All three Amiga programs run under WinUAE.

I had trouble trying to figure out the melody of the song, it no longer sounds so much like superbeast, so I used Audacity, a very good and free, sound editor to record a rough draft of the song, with narration, so that I could figure out what the notes for the song where. My fellow cow-orkers at Jake's Famous Crawfish Restaurant got a chance to hear it. Now that I have to tune down, it will be much easier to compose and record the instrumental tracks, using OctaMED SoundStudio, another Amiga program but also available for Windows.

Next things to do:

Record instumental tracks, add vocals, complete storyboard, rough draft of Video using pictures from the storyboard.