Producing a job...

I'm in the middle of producing one of my own jobs as our producer is on maternity leave and her replacement is on vacation. I've just been yelled at and reminded that I promised they'd come away happy. They inevitably will go away happy but there's no need to get all emotional about it. One thing I learned recording literally hundreds of demos over the years was, 'you can't polish a turd' especially in this game of transfering home video to big screen 35mm glory...