Month: January 2010

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BUSY WEEK

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Working this week has been rough because I’ve been SO sick! But I’m getting a lot done. Monday, Katherine, Ryan, and I finished our PSA. I’m not totally satisfied with it because we should’ve been better at finding facts BEFOREHAND. Still, it came out quite smoothly.

I’VE STARTED FILMING MY MUSIC VIDEO!!!!! My song is “You Are The One” by Shiny Toy Guns. Starring Grace Burnett and myself. I couldn’t find another guy in time for when I wanted to start shooting, so I’m the guy. But trust me, I’m being involved in setting up the shots as much as humanly possible. Katherine’s helping me film a lot which I appreciate. 🙂 Wednesday, I’m hoping to utilize the green screen – I want to change the background to white when I’m editing. I’ve split up my filming schedule into three major parts – the other day, we filmed one major sequence; Wednesday, we’re going to film all the singing parts on the green screen; then Thursday, we’re filming all the outdoor scenes. Hopefully I can get a jumpstart on editing in class TODAY so I won’t be totally stressing that Friday after filming is done.

Tomorrow, I’M GOING TO SEE AVATAR AGAIN IN IMAX! 😀

Oh, and I will have TVPs finished by Monday. 🙂

That’s all for now! I’m havin’ a blast, Shaw!

Samstar

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Confession.

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I am a bad blogger. I never ever remember to blog. I even bookmarked this stupid blog right where I can see it but for some reason my eyes always choose to avoid it. It’s not that I don’t like blogging, I really don’t mind it. But I don’t love it either. If I loved blogging, I would never forget to blog. I love ice cream sandwiches, and I never forget to eat an ice cream sandwich! But where blogging is concerned, I am Switzerland. Neutral. No hard feelings against blogging, but no love there either. Just something I always forget to do. 

However I think my work ethic on actual video projects and overall creativity and good heart should make up for this particular character flaw of forgetfulness. 🙂 

Anyway, the Putt Putt doc is going just smashingly. ish. I have lots of good interviews put together but I NEED ACTUAL FOOTAGE FROM THE MOVIE. Apparently Allen is going to show up at some point with the magical footage, and I am hoping it happens soon! I need to work in the b-roll with the interviews and I think things should come together. The main sections right now are the meaning/idea behind the actual “putt putt syndrome,” Winthrop as the location, quick profiles of his kids and the other actors, and a little segment on each major department. I am trying to focus on student involvement. I need to interview some more people… Sarah Soltan, Alison Sekerak, Grace Lemieux, Dalton Cummings… Shaw… anyone else that had a role on set. 

Then we’re going to NEW YORK CITYYYY! So pumped. So we’ll add in the footage from that premiere with the footage from the Winthrop premiere… or we may end up making a seperate little premiere party thing for the DVD. Who knows. I think I need to talk to Allen in person. Hopefully we’ll be getting together soon. 

I also helped with the menu of the Cabaret DVD! 
And now there is talk of making a trailer for Putt Putt! The madness never ends. 
Also working on the electives video… getting b-roll and interviews from the classes… oh joy of joys. 
Next semester I will be working with Evan on our STOPMOTION EXTRAVAGANZA. 
And maybe filming soldiers reading bedtime stories so that when they go overseas their kids can still listen to them at night… If that’s still happening? 
And Jason wanted something filmed about his martial arts class?

So lots of video goodness going on here. No worries. 

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Putt Putt Syndrome Trailer

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That’s right, for all of you who didn’t get the opportunity to work on the film this past summer now is your chance to see just what it was that we worked on. Verite Films has just released the first official trailer and it is available on Youtube. Here is your first look into The Putt Putt Syndrome.

and if that didn’t work, here’s the link straight to Youtube. You’ll have to watch it from home. Sorry!