School and Veritaz video project update...
I am defiantly a learn-by-doing it type of person, although it's much easier on my nerves to be verbally taught and visibly shown before I take my own type of crash-course-learning-extravaganza lessons. haha.
Anyway, what does that statement have to do with anything? It has everything to do with what I've been up to lately at school.
I've also learned that I *can be* super afraid of confrontation and certain types of communication in general. note: This doesn't mean that I avoid it or can't follow through with these *types* of communication, it just means that it's surprising to me how freaked out I can get before I force myself to follow though.
(always gotta get the job done!)
so...
I'm working on the post production FIVE significant video projects right now- 3 for school and 2 for Veritaz Productions, my independent production company. I am not involved in ANY preproduction or production work this quarter. ONLY post-production work. How appropriate of me to be finishing projects during my last quarter of undergrad. haha.Seems like a lot but it's really not so bad. The projects are as follows:
Savannah College of Art and Design Projects:
1. The Unsinkable Jenny Brown
2.The Making of Baby Blues and...
3.Stillmore (*new*)
Veritaz Production Projects:
4. Pedaling For Change, A Documentary About Rally Across America
5. A live music video from Cornerstone 2006 for Showbread
Here is a little outline of each project, my roll, and where each is at in it's post-production process.
The Unsinkable Jenny Brown
(My senior thesis project at Savannah College of Art and Design.)
I am currently almost finished with my final editing cut of my documentary on Jenny Brown. I haven't had any major complications with the project aside from the typical "whoops I still have to shoot an interview" here and there. Overall, the post production process has been very easy going and has taught me a lot. This might be due to the fact that I decided to be unorthodox (go figure) and edit the project myself instead of getting another student to edit it for me. There were a few reasons for this decision, the most important one being that I knew that I would learn more if I did it myself. I also wanted to use this quarter to the best that I can when it comes to learning editing techniques and mastering different programs. Editing this project on my own gave me the option to be working on a Final Cut project for school along side the project that I'm doing for my advanced post class in Avid Symphony Nitris. The Unsinkable Jenny Brown will be handed over to my sound designer later this week for sound adjustments. The press kit, dvd case, and poster should be done by Thursday.
The Making of Baby Blues
This is a project that I directed that has been carried over from last quarter (summer quarter). Due to it's size and my unavailability because of other class obligations, the post supervisor and I decided to "hire" another student as the editor and allow them to use it for class credit. Well, whatdayaknow, this year SCAD implemented an official editing track for the senior thesis program. This means that if a student knows that they want to be an editor, they can go through the senior I, II, and III classes editing projects instead of pre-producing, producing, and post producing their own project as a director, producer, or whatever else they end up doing. This works great for us because our friend Heather decided to take on the project as part of her senior thesis collection of edited films. This means that she has been collecting the footage, capturing it into the system, and putting together coherent sequences for our story-line. Thank God for Heather. Hopefully this project will be complete by the end of the quarter...
Stillmore
This project is a documentary about an event that took place in early September in a town near Savannah called Stillmore. To make a long story short, many illegal immigrants have been working and living in Stillmore as an important part of the community for years and years. In early September, Immigration came in and deported like 400 people over night. The rest of the illegals in the town just plain fled... they disappeared into the woods. This documentary is about the community and how it has been effected, the people who left, and the people who were forced to leave. It explores immigration laws and the recent explosion of media interest politically when it comes to our "unsafe borders", what it means to be "American", and questions the validity of the use of violence and force when it comes to enforcing immigration laws. I am new to this project and have signed on as the editor. I am super excited about it though and I think that the director, Mitchell, and the director of photography, my friend Hawk, have great hearts for film and art. I'm super honored to be such a significant part of their project, especially a project like this. Now all I have to do is get this HDV into avid and get some of these tapes translated from Spanish to English. You wouldn't believe some of these people's stories.....
Pedaling For Change
Since I wrote about PFC last in the Veritaz Blog, Nick and I had just finished up shooting the segment that we wanted to do on Alexa. Between then and now I have super revised the press packet and have been applying for grants, etc. I am not going to really start to full post production process on this doc until I am finished with school this winter and know FOR SURE that we have the funding to properly complete it. This break isn't a bad thing, it is just me deciding that I shouldn't give the project only HALF of my attention (which is what I'd be doing if I was working on it now while I'm in school.) I have met a few cool people who want to edit it and have yet to make my final decision but, overall, all is well with Pedaling For Change. I'm excited to revisit it again this winter and make it my full time job! If things go according to plan (which you never know...) I'd like to have PFC done before June. Depending on money, though, we'll see about that. haha
Showbread Life Music Video:: Cornerstone 2006
I absolutly love shooting live music videos. I love it so much that I think that I"ll be doing only that almost all of next summer with Veritaz! This video I shot this summer with an awesome guy named Dillan that I met at cornerstone. Showbread had asked me to film and so I was planning on going into it with just my camera but then I met Dillan and he hooked up the second unit. I cut together the ENTIRE 40 minute show for them and it looks amazing. Not evey band can boast a 1080i live duel unit cornerstone video can they? muahahahha. Anyway It's been a learning experience for me (as the Showbread videos have been over and over haha) and go me, I gave them the video at the wrong bit-rate right before they went on tour so now I have to figure out a way to get this awesome video to the for them to see while they are on tour. I think I'll just put it online at the Veritaz web site. We'll see. Anywhichway (as Hawk would say), I'll post a clip here. It's super finished... and super amazing. haha
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Ok well thats it with the VIDEO side of school and play. I'm taking a business class to but I'll write about that excitement in a later post. haha.
Right now I have to get back to these Spanish Stillmore tapes and try to make some sense out of them. THANK GOD for latino friends who will translate for free.
We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea
Anyway, what does that statement have to do with anything? It has everything to do with what I've been up to lately at school.
I've also learned that I *can be* super afraid of confrontation and certain types of communication in general. note: This doesn't mean that I avoid it or can't follow through with these *types* of communication, it just means that it's surprising to me how freaked out I can get before I force myself to follow though.
(always gotta get the job done!)
so...
I'm working on the post production FIVE significant video projects right now- 3 for school and 2 for Veritaz Productions, my independent production company. I am not involved in ANY preproduction or production work this quarter. ONLY post-production work. How appropriate of me to be finishing projects during my last quarter of undergrad. haha.Seems like a lot but it's really not so bad. The projects are as follows:
Savannah College of Art and Design Projects:
1. The Unsinkable Jenny Brown
2.The Making of Baby Blues and...
3.Stillmore (*new*)
Veritaz Production Projects:
4. Pedaling For Change, A Documentary About Rally Across America
5. A live music video from Cornerstone 2006 for Showbread
Here is a little outline of each project, my roll, and where each is at in it's post-production process.
(My senior thesis project at Savannah College of Art and Design.)
I am currently almost finished with my final editing cut of my documentary on Jenny Brown. I haven't had any major complications with the project aside from the typical "whoops I still have to shoot an interview" here and there. Overall, the post production process has been very easy going and has taught me a lot. This might be due to the fact that I decided to be unorthodox (go figure) and edit the project myself instead of getting another student to edit it for me. There were a few reasons for this decision, the most important one being that I knew that I would learn more if I did it myself. I also wanted to use this quarter to the best that I can when it comes to learning editing techniques and mastering different programs. Editing this project on my own gave me the option to be working on a Final Cut project for school along side the project that I'm doing for my advanced post class in Avid Symphony Nitris. The Unsinkable Jenny Brown will be handed over to my sound designer later this week for sound adjustments. The press kit, dvd case, and poster should be done by Thursday.
This is a project that I directed that has been carried over from last quarter (summer quarter). Due to it's size and my unavailability because of other class obligations, the post supervisor and I decided to "hire" another student as the editor and allow them to use it for class credit. Well, whatdayaknow, this year SCAD implemented an official editing track for the senior thesis program. This means that if a student knows that they want to be an editor, they can go through the senior I, II, and III classes editing projects instead of pre-producing, producing, and post producing their own project as a director, producer, or whatever else they end up doing. This works great for us because our friend Heather decided to take on the project as part of her senior thesis collection of edited films. This means that she has been collecting the footage, capturing it into the system, and putting together coherent sequences for our story-line. Thank God for Heather. Hopefully this project will be complete by the end of the quarter...
This project is a documentary about an event that took place in early September in a town near Savannah called Stillmore. To make a long story short, many illegal immigrants have been working and living in Stillmore as an important part of the community for years and years. In early September, Immigration came in and deported like 400 people over night. The rest of the illegals in the town just plain fled... they disappeared into the woods. This documentary is about the community and how it has been effected, the people who left, and the people who were forced to leave. It explores immigration laws and the recent explosion of media interest politically when it comes to our "unsafe borders", what it means to be "American", and questions the validity of the use of violence and force when it comes to enforcing immigration laws. I am new to this project and have signed on as the editor. I am super excited about it though and I think that the director, Mitchell, and the director of photography, my friend Hawk, have great hearts for film and art. I'm super honored to be such a significant part of their project, especially a project like this. Now all I have to do is get this HDV into avid and get some of these tapes translated from Spanish to English. You wouldn't believe some of these people's stories.....
Since I wrote about PFC last in the Veritaz Blog, Nick and I had just finished up shooting the segment that we wanted to do on Alexa. Between then and now I have super revised the press packet and have been applying for grants, etc. I am not going to really start to full post production process on this doc until I am finished with school this winter and know FOR SURE that we have the funding to properly complete it. This break isn't a bad thing, it is just me deciding that I shouldn't give the project only HALF of my attention (which is what I'd be doing if I was working on it now while I'm in school.) I have met a few cool people who want to edit it and have yet to make my final decision but, overall, all is well with Pedaling For Change. I'm excited to revisit it again this winter and make it my full time job! If things go according to plan (which you never know...) I'd like to have PFC done before June. Depending on money, though, we'll see about that. haha
I absolutly love shooting live music videos. I love it so much that I think that I"ll be doing only that almost all of next summer with Veritaz! This video I shot this summer with an awesome guy named Dillan that I met at cornerstone. Showbread had asked me to film and so I was planning on going into it with just my camera but then I met Dillan and he hooked up the second unit. I cut together the ENTIRE 40 minute show for them and it looks amazing. Not evey band can boast a 1080i live duel unit cornerstone video can they? muahahahha. Anyway It's been a learning experience for me (as the Showbread videos have been over and over haha) and go me, I gave them the video at the wrong bit-rate right before they went on tour so now I have to figure out a way to get this awesome video to the for them to see while they are on tour. I think I'll just put it online at the Veritaz web site. We'll see. Anywhichway (as Hawk would say), I'll post a clip here. It's super finished... and super amazing. haha
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Ok well thats it with the VIDEO side of school and play. I'm taking a business class to but I'll write about that excitement in a later post. haha.
Right now I have to get back to these Spanish Stillmore tapes and try to make some sense out of them. THANK GOD for latino friends who will translate for free.
We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea
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