tim and lisa cocking

We made it and so did all of our gear! After meeting our translator and her friend at the airport we stuffed the four of us and all our gear into her little Dacia (we had to sit on some of the luggage the car is so small!) and headed to our hotel. We checked in and then went out to dinner. I had Romanian trout (the whole thing, head included) and John had some tasty cabbage rolls. We were in bed at 10:00, which was 3 pm Orlando time but we both went to sleep right away. I woke up this morning at 6:30 so it looks like I’m already adjusted and won’t have any jet lag.

We are going to go to the studio this morning to check it out and then we’re going to our translators church.

Bucharest is very crowded and grey. All the buildings are the same unpainted concrete. I don’t dare walk out of the hotel and make a turn on any street since they all meander around and look totally identical. The good thing is that if I take a left out of our hotel it’s a ten minute walk to the People’s House without making any turns. So if I go out for a run I can go that way and make a loop around the second largest building in the world! (photo from Wikipedia)

I’ve deleted all the details our of my itinerary after receiving a security warning. I didn’t know I had restrictions on this for these countries. So if you happen to want them, too bad!

And the last flights are on Monday Aug 4 from Bucharest to Moscow.

I was able to get exit row on everything except for ***********. Anyway I’m pretty happy about getting the exit row on all the other flights since there is a grand total of 32 hours (!) in the air!!!

Here, finally, is my itinerary minus the flight from Bucharest to Moscow. I would have posted details sooner this week but everything has been up in the air. We finally have the details all nailed down and we’re ready to go record. Since I’ll be in Bucharest and Moscow the whole time I should be able to keep this blog updated as we record, so keep checking in. Now that I know when we’re going, where we’re going and what we’ll be recording I’ll post a bit about it before we leave.
25JUL ORLANDO TO BUCHAREST
07AUG MOSCOW TO ORLANDO

I’m still going to Russia. I’m not going to Altai, however! Seems a bit strange affter prepping so much for that recording. But, this is Russia so I was warned that anything could happen and it did. The dialog director ended up being unavailable until September. We already have our visas so we’re making changes on the fly and going to get other things done.

We’ll be recording a couple of changes to the “new film” (sorry I have to code things a bit so that this post doesn’t tie into other posts if someone is searching some specific terms) in Russian, and then traveling instead to Bucharest Romania to record that same film in Romanian.

I’ll post more on Monday after I can sit down with everyone and get more details.

We do have a flat to stay in in Moscow and we will be working in pro recording studios in both countries and using professional actors which will be good from a work flow standpoint. The only thing is that I can only do field editing and not field mixing of this film since it’s in surround sound.

More on the countries and languages, and some pictures too on Monday