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…DENIS DEEGAN, OVERSEAS SUPERVISOR IN KOREA.

Woke up early today, it’s going to be busy. I have retakes to check with all dialogue fixed (hopefully), two Olivia episodes for rough and final animation checking, and one blocking pass episode, plus a few surprises.

Arrive studio at 7 AM. The streets are pretty empty at this time and it took only 20 minutes to get to the studio, there’s a few people here but they are leaving soon, they have been here all night.

Grab a coffee and turn on my computer.

There are folders full of retakes and they look fine now. The dialogue retakes are working and the other retakes are fine too – finally!

10:30 A.M I am finished the retakes and I’m waiting for the Olivia episodes from the Animators downstairs. There are 3 teams with about 12 Animators per team, plus another studio has 3 episodes. So I will go downstairs to the Animators’ pit after lunch.

11A.M I’m checking the show from the outside studio and I am worried that they may be rushing it. I have checked these already and they are now 2nd takes, but are still coming back with the same problems. Something is going on here – time for a lunchtime summit with the director, production manager and studio owner.

LUNCH

We have a typical Korean lunch; beef ribs cooked over an open fire eaten sandwich-like between lettuce leaves and lots of garlic, and Kimchi which is the Korean national food (fermented cabbage left underground in a pot for a few months, Korean food is great!). I also order some Sojoo which is the Korean national drink.

Denis Deegan

We discuss the issue with the overseas studio. I explain that it is a waste of time for them to send retakes for checking in the current state as I have checked them previously and can still see the same problems occurring. Once I check them again my notes have to be translated, then the studio will have some questions on the notes that I have already addressed. I’m wondering if they are getting the notes or not? I ask for the directors to come visit and we will go through the episodes together instead of me rechecking them myself. This is agreed, and should solve the issue.

1:45 PM Back to the studio and I have a meeting with the Animators downstairs. This is the good part as I gather each team and we all look at their scenes. Some of the scenes are really funny and I think we are all now getting the idea of what Olivia is about. The first 2 episodes we sent off had way too many retakes, but I think there will be a big difference with these.

4:45 P.M We (myself and the translator/production coordinator) finish checking the Animation and now we have some questions from the Lighting department and compositors. Some of these questions I can answer and some I ask the translator to email Brown Bag about. The Lighting boys are good though.

One thing I noticed in Animation is that each team is doing the blocking process differently. I think we should all do it the same way, this I will discuss later.

Denis in Korea

5:30 PM I have a call with Brown Bag at 6pm and I have 2 episodes for Blocking checking. I’ll do them now,

6:30 PM Oh I can hear the studio C.E.O calling Brown Bag… I can really hear him now through the glass walls in his office,

7:30 PM Got a mail from Brown Bag, they are calling me soon, so I skip down to the hotel around the corner where I can take the call.

Ok, back to the studio, there has been a misunderstanding but after a couple of emails between studios all is ok until tomorrow!

8:00 PM Leave studio and head home this time stuck in traffic….