Christa and Jason came up for the weekend and since Saturday was lovely weather we went out for a nature walk. It was slightly muddy for the shoes Christa was wearing, but she was definitely the cutest person on the trail.
We went to Lion's Den Gorge Nature Preserve at the suggestion of my friend Joe (the documentary filmmaker at work).
Here's some photos:
Sunday, 16 April 2017
Saturday, 1 April 2017
Working on Young of the Year
I've been making good progress, though the rough cut is still a bit too rough to let anyone look. But I spent Spring Break down in DC and did a sit down interview with Jeff, so now I'm getting closer to what the film should be. I am very motivated, in the current climate of 30% reductions to the EPA and limiting the endangered species list to do this film and do it well.
In the meantime I'm spending this weekend working on a trailer. Because I had a research assistant for the academic year, I am required to participate in Scholarship Day at the College. I would want to anyway really. The best path to tenure is getting people invested in what I'm doing as my creative scholarship so they need to actually see it. Anyway, everyone else on the faculty is making a poster of their research. I pointed out that a poster doesn't really work for me and could I maybe do a trailer instead. They said sure, so here I am working on it.
I sent a handful of people links to unlisted videos on YouTube. If you were not on the list and would like to be let me know. If you are one of them, please vote at the right for your favorite. And if you don't think any of them work that's ok too, just leave me a comment below. I think Scholarship Day is the 20th or so, so I have a few weeks to get this right. The only real difference between the three is the music. My voice over is the same, and the clips are all the same, just fewer of them for the shorter music selections. They are pretty decent rough cuts, but I'll take the winning one and do some fine tuning of the edits, smooth out a couple of the rougher moves, and clean up some speck on the lens moments. (But that kind of stuff is a pain so I only want to do it for the clips I know I'm using.)
In the meantime I'm spending this weekend working on a trailer. Because I had a research assistant for the academic year, I am required to participate in Scholarship Day at the College. I would want to anyway really. The best path to tenure is getting people invested in what I'm doing as my creative scholarship so they need to actually see it. Anyway, everyone else on the faculty is making a poster of their research. I pointed out that a poster doesn't really work for me and could I maybe do a trailer instead. They said sure, so here I am working on it.
I sent a handful of people links to unlisted videos on YouTube. If you were not on the list and would like to be let me know. If you are one of them, please vote at the right for your favorite. And if you don't think any of them work that's ok too, just leave me a comment below. I think Scholarship Day is the 20th or so, so I have a few weeks to get this right. The only real difference between the three is the music. My voice over is the same, and the clips are all the same, just fewer of them for the shorter music selections. They are pretty decent rough cuts, but I'll take the winning one and do some fine tuning of the edits, smooth out a couple of the rougher moves, and clean up some speck on the lens moments. (But that kind of stuff is a pain so I only want to do it for the clips I know I'm using.)
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