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  Date Time Subject 31st Aug 2000 15:28:34 GHOSTHUNTER The first grading session at Technicolor took place this morning. Simon (Director) and Gavin (DoP) watched a mute 35mm print in Technicolor's screening room. Martin Walsh (Grader) will now re-grade a second print for the next session at Technicolor on Monday morning.

  Date Time Subject 24th Aug 2000 19:46:43 GHOSTHUNTER Meeting today with Barrington Pheloung (Composer), Simon (Director) and Alison (Producer) for a run through of the film with the soundtrack. The meeting went extremely well, after a few minor modifications to the score all were happy that arrangements could now begin for the recording session. Barrington will now make the changes as necessary, orchestrate and print the music ready for the musicians to record, sometime next week.

  Date Time Subject 22nd Aug 2000 11:41:34 GHOSTHUNTER PNC started the neg cut today, which should take three days. All being well the cut negative will be handed over to Technicolor on Thursday evening for the first mute trial print to be processed - ready for the first grading session on the 31st August.

  Date Time Subject 18th Aug 2000 15:21:14 THE BOOK Today we were delighted to receive the foreword to our book, written by David Parfitt. David was kind enough to meet with us last year just before we went into pre-production with Ghosthunter - he was very helpful and gave us some much needed advice and encouragement. Having him write the foreword brings his involvement full circle, the book is due for publication in November. Having now received the telecined negative of all the effects work and tiles - the various sequences were cut back into the film to produce the final EDL prior to the neg cut next week.

  Date Time Subject 14th Aug 2000 17:51:14 GHOSTHUNTER CFC screened all the Visual effects and opening titles for Ghosthunter today in their preview theatre. This is the first time that any part of Ghosthunter has been viewed on a projected print. The prints are still ungraded but it was lovely to see parts of the film at maximum resolution after spending so long with it in an off line format. All being well the neg cut should commence next week.

  Date Time Subject 8th Aug 2000 16:39:21 GHOSTHUNTER The art work for our end credits have been fully approved, CFC have been busy scanning all the VFX shots, the opening titles have also been output and by the end of this week we should have all the elements of Ghosthunter in place and ready to edit back into the film, so as to produce our final EDL for PNC to begin the neg cut.

  Date Time Subject 7th Aug 2000 10:16:37 GHOSTHUNTER We obtained our Dolby license for a Dolby Digital (5.1) mix today. Dolby will now release their logo for our end roller and let the Korda Theatre know that we have the license so that our final mix can go ahead next month.

  Date Time Subject 4th Aug 2000 14:15:19 GHOSTHUNTER We received a fax of the end roller today for approval, we'll be looking at it over the weekend before approving it on Monday. It can then be released for filming early next week.

  Date Time Subject 3rd Aug 2000 22:41:15 GHOSTHUNTER Pre-mix today at the Korda Theatre, Shepperton with Robin O'Donoghue. One of the best days so far in post production. Robin has been involved in the project since last year and we've always hoped that he'd be available to mix our film. It's the first real opportunity to see all the hard work from sound department come to fruition. There we're no real problems with our sound and hearing the mix come together, the dialogues, foley, atmospheres and sound effects in full surround sound was very exciting. There is still a little more work to be done to complete the pre-mix but we'll be back with Robin and his team in September to lay Barrington's score onto the film and for the final mix.