Around 50 new views show up on Barton Police YouTube videos everyday with little to no promotional work being done but for the Barton Police post production team, this just is not acceptable! Chris Worrell, Scott Lee, and Stephen Wolfe race furiously toward finishing the entire series. While Episode 6 was released only a short while ago when the Episode 6 Trailer came out in March, Episode 7 is about to be released May 18th, 2010, only a little over a week since Episode 6. Episode 8 will have a similar schedule, the team reports.
For Episode 9, the efforts will be churned toward the episode itself along with completing the DVD as a cohesive product. The DVD cover art is now under works and will likely be completed soon. Chris Worrell and Scott Lee, the series’ two musical composers continue to create approximately 4 to 8 songs per editing day, an incredible rate given the rapid pace at which the episodes are released. The quality, many would agree, is comparable to that of previous episodes and in some cases - even surpasses and surprises.
“We’re working 12 hour days,” Scott Lee says. “We literally wake up at 8:30 in the morning a lot of these days. Stephen brings donuts and kolaches and we work until around a three o’clock lunch where we usually end up ordering a pizza or picking up fast food. It’s not the healthiest diet in the world but it keeps the creative juices flowing.”
“We basically just looked at the calendar and realized we weren’t going to make our May 17th date. But we knew we had to give as much effort as possible, and that meant buckling down to get everything done,” Stephen Wolfe has told others in regard to working on the series in recent time.
“It really feels good to get this much done,” Chris Worrell looked up from his headphones and laptop speakers at one point. “These past few weeks we really have been doing a lot.”
The team faces a constant challenge of predicting when the final scenes will be filmed, who can attend voice over audio sessions when and for what scenes, and what to cut out versus leave in while they race against the clock which has already punished their credibility. The Barton Ct. Membership service lies on a temporary delay while content is gathered and services are brought online. Scott Lee is faced with the problem of having no other help for managing a variety of tasks: managing the websites, producing music, doing post production audio noise clean up on dialogue, filming his remaining scenes, doing news updates, posting new content on the Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, and much more. In a very real sense to the project, Scott has to be a one man army.
With the Barton Police DVD so close to completion, the team has been having to contemplate what to do next. Scott Lee will be working on a new book and completing a college degree. Chris Worrell, who recently graduated with a degree in Interactive Media & Design, will be chasing after new work opportunities. Stephen Wolfe is working on his new film with working title: Midnight Abyss. The other members of the cast and crew are also working on their own respective goals. Justin Herman will soon have his own official website designed by Barton Ct. Productions Inc. and continues to create short skits and videos for his YouTube channel, CCJVideos. Xavier Flores is working and pursuing a degree in biology, for example, and Mitchell Ganey is attending college.
One of Justin Herman’s latest short skits:
