Expectations of Winter Blindness

Or some other amalgam of topics.

I recently saw The Social Network, a film that not only fulfilled, but surpassed my expectations.  It also brought to light a pattern that Barb and I are only seeing good films together -  in the last 2 years we've seen: Moon, Sherlock Holmes, Inception and now TSN. (I'm sure it also helps that we live 5 hours apart so moovie watching doesn't happen all that often) Anywhoo, not only is TSN a great film, but it has a great trailer that does everything a trailer should


It teases the film, gives the viewer a basic idea of what the film is about, without sharing the meat, and leaves us somewhat curious.  I also think all good trailers have to be films unto themselves.  They can't rely on the viewer knowing anything about the subject matter.  They have to press the ART button repeatedly. 

I really think my high expectations for the film were entirely based on the fact that Aaron Sorkin was writing it.  In fact, the first time I heard there was going to be a Facebook film I rolled my eyes. I mean, how exciting can the origin story of a social website be? Forgetting, of course, that's it's all about the execution...I mean how exciting could a film based on a pirate ride be?   However, once Sorkin was attached I knew it was going to be a fun ride. He can make dialog sing and dance on the page and his scripts are almost as fun to read as they are to watch: The American President A Few Good Men West Wing Sports Night. If were to name my overall top 5 screenwriters  Sorkin and Whedon would be thumb wrestling for the top spot.

Strong expectations can be the death knell for any film.  To tell a good story you have to establish certain expectations in the first act. You have to set things in motion, introduce characters, establish tone and a visual style, introduce motivations and storyline. Then you have to write an ending that resolves the major issues without the audience seeing it coming a mile off which means you have to confound some expectations and fulfill others.  And if all of that is framed within the viewer's prior expectations of suck or godhood, then it makes it that much more difficult to reach that viewer.  I think for a film to be successful, the expectations of the viewer have to be in sync with the expectations  the film is setting up.

Here are two short films that play with expectations and because of that I won't say much about either of them in this post.
The first is The Winter Stalker written and directed by Stephen Reedy:

"The Winter Stalker" By Stephen Reedy & Alex Pardee from ZerofriendsFilms on Vimeo.
 
The second is a short film from French Animation Students.  I don't know if I keep running across cool shorts from French schools, or if the French summarily execute any student film that doesn't pass french muster.

It's called Blind Spot:


Regarding my own personal expectations -  one of the shorts met them- I felt I knew where the story was going from the beginning... the other took me by surprise which I feel makes it the stronger and more interesting film....but in a Keanu Reeves "whoh" way.

Teen Angst

I think I'm reaching the teen angst portion of tonight's show.  I have this theory about film production...or video production, or really any artistic creation. It's nothing new and not even terribly original, but hey, there we are.

Making a video is very much like raising a child.  Preproduction is all about youth and adolescence.  Sure there are growing pains, but there's such hope and energy, passion and excitement that sometimes it's all you can do to not smother the thing in love.  This is where you plan out it's life.  You want so much for the little guy, so you try and give it everything it needs. This means writing as much as possible, planning out shoots, finding a consistent visual style, a structure, scouting and maybe pre-interviews to figure out what your subjects are going to say and then how everything will fit together.

Then you reach production which is somewhere around puberty, suddenly this baby is ready to walk on it's own and you can only hope you've prepared it enough to propel itself under it's own energy.  Sure you're there to guide it, to feed it, to drive it to the mall and pay for craft services, but it has to have it's own motivation and desire. If you've been negligent in your love, you're certainly going to find out now.  Most of the time things start off strong.  The first day of shooting is always exciting, it's like the first day of school, everyone looks their best. They're running out to location with their beanies on, excited to play.  But that never lasts - it can't really.  Because this being has to find it's own feet, it has to be it's own person...and that's when you hit the Teen Angst years.

The Teen Angst generally happens around the middle of production or somewhere early on in post, mostly it just depends when you're actually looking at the footage and starting to put it together. For me, it's now (after only 3 days of shooting) this is because I'm staying late to look at clips Jeanne has put together or am working with Katrina to see the graphics she's created.  And I"m starting to doubt my vision.  Teen Angst is striking.  This happens because all your dreams and visions are for an organic life form that has it's own desires and wishes.  You wanted a lawyer and you're getting an artist... or vice-versa. The trick is, to be okay with what it's becoming, but still be able to influence it's decisions. You're not giving up control-you can't and this teen doesn't want you to. But you have to be okay with your vision changing somewhat.  You have to allow it to become what it's going to become and be okay with the fact that you can't exert as much influence as  you did before.

I had certain thoughts about how the middle sections should go. After shooting 2 interviews and seeing Jeanne try to put them together, I'm worried that we can't get across the whole concept in the 15 seconds I've given to each person. But if we can't then we have to pull from the early 10 second montage 'cause I've only alotted 40 seconds for each of the 5 sections....and this can't go over 5 minutes.  At times, production is all about numbers: how many setups have we shot; how long is the crew on the clock; how many bagels are left on the table.

So the trick is to be aware of the teen angst and to not be reactive.  I'm going to adjust my interview style a little bit and perhaps put the questions that really matter all together.  The individual sections are changing somewhat as well.  The 15seconds were people explaining what they're working on and why it's awesome. But I think it has to be what the problem is and why it's important, with the implication of "that's why I'm working on it"  Or something.  I don't know, I'm going to have to think on that.

The video is being played in St. Louis 3 weeks from today. We got the job 2 weeks ago, so I think we've come quite a ways in a couple weeks.  I'm just trying to ignore the pressure from on high and trusting that I've given this thing enough love that it can stand on it's own knowing that I and the rest of our video family is going to be pushing it the rest of the way.

We'll see what I think tomorrow.

And then, at the end of the day when I was in the midst of my teen-angstyness, I found this cool little short:

PYRATS from zloe_zlo on Vimeo.

It was made back in 2006 by animation students at a school I can't pronounce. Here's the website for the film.  Overall, it's a whole lot of fun. It well paced, exciting, visually dynamic, tells a story and  even worked in a Wilhelm Scream. What's not to love?

Sweet Cheeses!

I read an article recently saying that the price of happiness is $75K a year.  According to some recent studies, after that amount, your happiness doesn't increase in proportion to your paycheck.    A few years ago, I read a similar report saying it was around $40K. I don't know if either report is correct or not, but I do know both those figures are more than I make.  Which is okay, I make enough to live on comfortably.  We own a house (well, part of it), I just bought a computer (that I'm typing on right now) and tonight I could afford to buy a frozen pizza from Shakes for dinner (although  I didn't end up cooking it when I got home).  From a financial standpoint, more would be great but we're certainly not hurting. 

People define happiness in various ways.  Monetary and material things are the first and foremost in most peoples minds.  I define my happiness with cheese.  And cheese...I mean good cheese, gets expensive for people in my tax bracket. I think at $75K I could buy cheese without feeling guilty. What a concept - Guilt Free cheese.  I mean look at this cheese!



Tonight I set sail for Schmucks and discovered their mythical cheese island (I have read about it in stories).  It's amazing, you just keep circling and circling and around every bend there's new and interesting cheese (at new and interesting prices).   Because of this photo I was labeled a cheese-tease, but I just have so much love of the lactose, I feel I must share. I remember a trip to Colorado where we went and got lost in the mountains around boulder. All we had to survive on was brie and crackers and we made it out alive.  Good view, good cheese, good company. And there's my definition of happiness...for this evening.

So the moral of this story is maybe I need to start treating myself to more cheese.  Dreams only die by choice.  And tonight, I'm dreaming of cheese...Stilton to be precise.

I had to pause and think of what kind of video would involve cheese...and Monty Python wins hands down...not only because they amuse me to no end..but because a friend and I did this skit for our 6th grade talent show.  I was the storekeep in my first stage role and Bryan took the best part for himself...and then didn't show up the day we had to perform.  I think Chris Leach was the understudy. I'm not sure our 6th grade classmates were ready for our attempt at british humor (what's the cliche about hearing a needle drop in a haystack?) but we thought it was hi-larious.

Compelations

Tonight I found a cool music video. It's what happens in college when Music class and Art History get drunk one night.



In a similar vein is one of my favorites "where the hell is Matt"
It starts off as a gimmick, but quickly becomes something powerful and inspiring



And this completes my month of blogging. I wish I had a more auspicious ending.  I feel that it's been a success in that I've been writing at least a little bit each day.  These last few feel like I'm phoning it in though. I do think I'll keep up with the writing each day, but blogging each day is a little overwhelming.  I do have a good list of videos I want to post, I've even started a file on google docs of videos I want to post, so at least I have material.

This weekend is the first game of the season.  We're using the NFL equipment with their person running it.  I'm just the down and distance guy - which means I do stats for each play of the game. I've done this a few times when we started off and it basically means I'll be writing the whole game. Oh well, at least what I make on this game will cancel out what I'm losing by not working on Lisa's wedding.

Hugs for everyone!

Animania

A staple of my college days....or were they high school? I don't remember when it first came out, but I was certainly watching it my dorm room.




It's fun *and* educational


But mostly just fun


And any tongue twister automatically make me think of The Court Jester

Big Tongue Lamps, film at eleven

I seem to have a real problem finding blow off videos.  By that  I mean, I want to stick to my one post per night schedule, but I just got home and am tired and want to go to bed, so I'll just post something cool I remember from ago and be done with it.

However, I find I want to comment on them or they lead me into other thoughts...and this is why I'm tired.  I end up in a staring contest with the ceiling thinking about things  I really wish I wasn't. And they're not even particularly interesting thoughts, sometimes it about what my tongue tastes like (conclusion: chicken. That's why so many things taste like chicken, my tongue just gets confused)

Anywhoo, here are two different commercials that I enjoy for wildly different reasons. They're from long ago sos nothing new here, move along, move along.

It's a big ad



Ikea lamp

Eric the Yodeling ChocolateChipCookie....wait, what?

Tonight I made the rest of this weeks new recipe. It's a variation on chocolate chip cookies involving icecream.  I discovered it on a great site called The Picky Palate...I plan on trying out a few of her other designs as well.  My standard rule when trying new recipes is to first follow the instructions to the letter, then experiment with the next batch. For this version I experimented the first time around. The recipe called for vanilla ice cream and I went with Burgundy Cherry which uses an amaretto flavored ice cream.  And it just now struck me that instead of vanilla extract I should've used almond extract. Oh well, I only made half a batch in case I didn't like it.  Turns out I like it very much, the cookie and the smell of fresh cookie.  Next go around, I'll use the almond, I still have it from the Amaretto Cake.  And now I'm in the mood for Amaretto Sours.

I tried to think of what video would be appropriate to use with the cookies. And really, there's only one that comes to mind.  I haven't found a non-embeddy version, so you'll just have to follow the link ....or not.


And just because Gene Wilder makes me think of this film I have to post it:


I laugh outloud every time I see or think of this scene....and then I get a little sad thinking of Peter Boyle & Madeline Kahn.  They both made me laugh so much in my childhood. Here's a link to the Muppet Show she hosted. 

Eric the Yodeling clam? Awesome.

Virtual Choir

Tonight I found a video that was moving and impressive. Both from a musical and technological standpoint.



At first I was really impressed with the concept...but it didn't take long for that to fade away and the music to take hold.  The video was edited by Scott Rawlins and I'm a little overwhelmed at how long that probably took him. Having seen what Kat goes through compositing effects, I'm assuming that each video screen is a layer of it's own.   The music was composed and organized by Eric Whitacre and he writes about how it came about on his blog. 

I always respond well to vocals. I think that's why I always enjoy James Horner's scores.  Glory was my first introduction to him and it's still one of my favorites:

Swarmin' my childhood

Today I found a video from MIT about an automated oil collection "Swarm" made up of individual robots.  It's a pretty cool concept, if functional...at least until they become self-aware and plan the overall downfall of humanity. (like ya do) Nothing was said about what happened to the oil once it was collected, but these things are automated, so surely there's some "find/replace & return to sender" command that could be worked out.  Here's the video:


However, the term Swarm always triggers things from my childhood, the first is of course, that staple of Saturday Morning 80s Cartoons: Spiderman and His Amazing Friends. Every saturday morning I was glued to the television for Spiderman, Superfriends, Dungeons & Dragons, Thundarr...all the great cartoons that formed my childhood and got me hooked on fantasy and sci-fi. (i'm not sure what Muppet Babies, Gummie Bears or Smurfs got me hooked on, but I watched them too.) Anywhoo, here's one of the Spiderman episodes called SWARM that kinda wigged me out. Maybe it was just the baddy....



Or maybe it was the fact that I saw a film named The Swarm at waaaay too young an age. Here's the trailer (is that Michael Caine? You bet it is):


It came out in 78, and I saw it sometime in the early 80s. My parents would sometimes have people over on Fridays and my brother and I would always find Something Awesome to watch in my parents bedroom.  It was a different age then, lock-key kids and whatnot, they were having their fun, we were having ours. I can't image parents today not knowing what their kids are watching, but hey, we were young and free... and then had nightmares about it:  The Swarm, Piranha, The Andromeda Strain, Logan's Run....these are some of the films I remember from my early youth, edited for TV sure, but still pretty intense for a 6-10 year old.  Then in '85 I met Caspall and he introduced me to all the horror films  I had been missing.  I think I was probably 12 or 13 when I saw Night of the Living Dead and the original Godzilla...about the same age with Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters and probably around 15-16 when we saw The Serpent and The Rainbow.  Sometimes I forget how much films shaped my childhood....or warped it. I'm not quite sure, but I still really love the magic of the cinema and I'm quite sure that will never change.

Coke Babies

And again, it's the end of the day, I'm beat and need to post something. I was going to post a fanfilm The Purchase Brothers made for Half-life. It came out last year and at that point I hadn't played the game, so while it was well made, I really didn't connect with it on a gamefilm level...really it was more of a "oh look, a groovy sci-fi film" level. So this evening I went and watched it and enjoyed the sound effects and the CGI realization of...the... CGI game vehicles. Yeah. Anywhoo, the original was part 1 and people are clammering for part 2 and being rather presumptuous. At which point I always think about a post Neil Gaimen made regarding similar feelings towards GeorgeRR Martin. 

Alongside the Half-life film, they also have a Coke film which I have posted below.  This may be an actual commercial or may be a submission for films that Coke sponsors. I'm not sure, we don't have cable so we haven't seen this commercial and my lazy google search brought up nothing except a quote from the Blues Brothers about 4 Fried Chickens and a Coke. So that was only helpful in the nostalgia department....and I also learned there's a band by the same name.

So here's the Coke film...Great title for starters. I love the parady of all the aliens come to earth "found-footage" films - district 9 primarily but also the new V and others.  Overall I think it's a clever and well-made piece....for selling soda.  All films have a message whether it's "love thy neighbor" or "don't put that in your mouth" (and District 9 has both!) but I think it's a strange train of thought that diminishes the quality of a piece simply because it's selling something I don't want. Which obviously isn't coke, I tend to want that too much.  But it leads to the whole "selling out"or "propaganda" conversations which have been done to death.  If you have a clever films about switching your bulbs to CFLs and you present it once on it's own and once sponsored by Wal-Mart (as they made this big push to go green in their stores) will it influence the way people see the video? Should it?  I don't know.   But, I'm really tired. So I'm just going to hit "publish" and go to bed.

Shrîimpéé dëë pöpcørn

Again wiped out and looking forward to dë wëëkënd. Shot outside for several hours again without any sunscreen or my hat so I'm a little toasted. Once I get through this first month of posting every night, I'm hoping I can get into a good schedule of posting something of substance every few nights. Until then, it seems to be mostly just videos I find amusing...or inspiring...or just cool. I fully believe that "because it's cool" is a perfectly respectable reason for doing something. Sure you might be making a tradeoff...many times there's a certain depth you can't achieve because you have to sacrifice something for the awesome. But isn't the awesome there to be sacrificed for? 

I didn't find the flash or the awesome for our video yet. Didn't feel like I had a ton of time to though. Shot all morning, logged most of the afternoon inbetween finalizing music for the show and...emailing? I have no idear what took so long but I didn't get done with everything I wanted to do. Maybe I can take a day off next week. And then football starts which means more $$ but less time. Sigh.

Anywhoo, I went to find something amusing I could post and came across one of The Muppett Studio's new vids on the Swedish Chef...sure he's funny and he makes me smile at first, but generally he's a one-trick Swede. And I was just about done with his one trick when he went onto a new one that kept me smiling to the end. So here it is (although I still have that fight montage music in my head)

Is that a sword in your pocket....

Long day full of shooting and logging and mowing oh my.  Ben and I started work on a new experimental video today.  I think we have the content right, now we need the flash...the delivery mechanism....and I'm not quite sure what to do.  We can't just put a series of short interviews back to back, it worked for Conversation, but this new project is much quicker. We're aiming at the 60-90 second mark. It needs to move fast so it needs the right music. I'm going to talk to Jeanne tomorrow about that, she's fantastic at finding just the right music.  I wonder if we have any hard rock tunes in our music library...I'm thinking that's the direction to go.  Fast paced, quick cuts, students talking and being honest. I'm going to go shooting tomorrow afternoon and see if I can get some funky shots around campus.  At the beginning of this week, I had thought we might be able to complete a version for Sue's meeting next week, but unless inspiration strikes tomorrow, I don't want to rush this.

I know what we need to make it exciting....sword fights!


Swordfights: En garde! from brutzelpretzel on Vimeo.

But seriously, how cool was that?  There was only one clip in there I didn't recognize...the one with the dude in yellow armor. Unless, that was from Hero, in which case I've seen all those films. 

Free Dives and Magic Men

Tonight at dinner, Tony brought up how David Blaine held his breath for 17 minutes, at which point the whole table called shenanigans.  However, Tony would not be phased and claimed it for truth...along with his beans. There certainly was no denying the Beans of Truth, so the Blaine thing must be true, right? Then the discussion moved onto free diving for a bit and suddenly I knew what video I was going to post tonight.

This short filmed called Free Fall was made earlier this year and I loved it the first time I saw it.  When shot correctly, the underwater world can seem magical and ethereal and I think this film captures that wonderfully.  The music is a perfect fit as well, having two musical styles juxtaposed together to mimic the beauty and danger inherent in free diving.



The free diver is Guillaume Nery, and it was shot by Julie Gautier who is also a free diver and camerawoman.  Sure he holds a world record, but I'm actually more impressed by her in that she had to get all the fantastic shots and angles while holding her breath.  And I just read that they're a couple as well, isn't that sweet? The music is You Make Me Feel by  Archive, a London-based band.

Anywhoo, Tony had seen David Blaine on a TED talk, and Amy hadn't heard of TED, so I'm posting the talk and the link here.



So Blaine is either impressive...or a little nutty. I'm not sure which, but anyone who would shove a hose down his throat just to see if it'll help him breath under water deserves some modicum of respect. And a little distance...cause whoh.

Although frankly Mitch Silpa does Blaine better than Blaine (some of the dialog NSFW)

Marcel the Shell with shoes on

I am totally captivated by this short.  And now that I start looking around the web, it seems to be in many places. But it's new to me.  Last night we had youtube around the table where we passed around the computer and showed everyone a different short. It was terribly geeky, but that's what you do at dinner parties, right?  Well, that's what we did anywhoo.  This was Laura's submission


MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

Made by Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate
I don't know what it is about this little shell story that I love so much.  Part of it, certainly, is Marcel herself. She's quite lovely. Part of it is the absurdity...part of it is the interviewer's voice - he's really the perfect straight man.  Mostly, it's just adorable.  And sometimes, that's enough.

Oktapodi

So I figured it was about time to bring in the cephalopod angle. (which blogger thinks I'm misspelling) And what better way to do so than with a film *about* a cephalopod....in love!

Back in 2007 some students at a French animation school  came up with a cool little short for their graduation film.  It's a lot of fun and is called Oktapodi.



It was then nominated for a 2009 Academy Award, and won many others. They're listed out on their press page here!

In other news Laura and DC came over for dinner and a grand time was had by all. They brought a *fantastic* organic apple pie and I officially started the new recipe show.  I tried an authentic cashew chicken recipe and I suppose it turned out okay, it wasn't what I'd call bad. I'd give it a passable rating.  I think for all these recipes I'm going to do them twice a week because there are many things I'd do differently, both in terms of flavor and prep.  I need more flavor which I think can come from more sauce, fewer veggies or larger cut veggies.  I think we just ended up with too much surface area so the flavor was diluted. Soooo, I'm going to try this again sometime this week and see if I can coax some more flavor out of it.

A Good Year For Robots

So back in 2007 a band named Coparck made a music video called A Good Year for the  Robots



which I think is quite wonderful.
And it's late and that's my post for the day.

Balls!

The Daily What posted a video of this dude with the crazy ball...well more like the crazyhands. And it gets crazycool around the 90 second mark


And I'm really not sure if any child of the 80s can see that and not immediately think of this:


And this? This is just for fun:

The Cat with Hands

I've posted this on my other blog, but it's been a while.  I think it was Seth who sent this many moons ago. Regardless, once seen it cannot be unseen. I come back to it every so often as it's a great short.


Robert Morgan - The Cat With Hands from James Burke on Vimeo.

It's masterful in so many ways. The sound plays an integral part in the pacing, first noticed when the old man takes the pails from the kid.  The composition and creepy special effects which are probably really simple add all the more to the creep factor.  It's under 4 minutes and it tells a great story, cheaply and quickly.  I think part of it's appeal is that it doesn't feel the need to explain everything.  The mystery is key to the story and the reveal.

And of course, now, whenever there's a mystery in any script or film, I always think of JJAbrams' mystery box.  If you haven't seen his talk on TED you should really check it out. It's one of my favorites...and that's not why you should check it out.

More Conversations...

So the conversations video was shown at weekly faculty meeting and met with a wonderful reaction.  Everybody was excited about it...tears were reported.  Holy crap... Tears? I mean, the "kiss me goodnight" story gets me choked up everytime, so it's nice to know that others are affected as well.   That's crazy awesome.  And then apparently everyone in the room started throwing out suggestions about where this video could go.  And they talked and they talked...and then they ordered 500 copies that they're going to ship to Geriatric deparments and programs across the country....and that's not hyperbole.

And I...am stunned.  Tonight I was going to talk about the progress of the show and how many different versions I considered because I think it's a good example of the organic nature of these things.  I think this is probably the best version that could've come out at this time because I'd been working on it for a long time (along side other shows and events and recording speakers and etc etc.)  And then this happened and other things which I'm not going to get into, so I"ll go into that later.

But for now, I'm in Holy Crap mode.  If they're making 500 copies, we need to get the credits in order.  The video I posted was going to be the one they gave  the Reynolds Foundation to show what they've been doing. If this is going to 500 places, we need to tighten things up. For most ASC projects, we've never done full credits. A lot of the time our names aren't even on the shows.  We videotaped someone this morning and he was asking us what kinds of shows we work on.  I had to remind him that a year ago we did a video for him...like he was the client.  His response: "oh yeah, people love that video, we send it everywhere!"  So it's going everywhere without our names on it.

There aren't many of us, so I want to actually put in our credits and titles. Jeanne certainly deserves credit as an editor. She edits almost all of our shows and no one knows it's her. For just about everyone else, I know their title. The person I don't know what to do with is Sue.  I think she'll just be a producer....but then she's the manager as well....soooo I don't know.

Oh and I need to post a fun/cool video:
Here's one by Bruce Branit, who also was a co-creator/director/etc of 405, which is really quite a bit of fun.

Conversations....

Well, that's the working title anywhoo, it's actually supposed to be the subtitle.  Here's a 22 minute video I've been working on for quite a while.  We're hoping, and there's certainly interest in making it into a full length feature film.  We certainly have the footage and while this type of storytelling works for a short, we'll need a much larger and stronger storyline for the feature.



One of the most interesting parts about this whole process is the decision on whether or not to use b-roll.  We were trying to capture footage along the way of these docs in action, but we kept being hamstrung by HIPAA rules and the possibility that we might shoot something we wouldn't use.  One of the comments was "well, I can get you in there, but I'm going to have to call in favors you might need to get you in somewhere else"  Most of the docs were great at what they did and very passionate, but, this being the midwest, pretty modest and not wanting to be on camera.   I decided to shoot the interviews and get the storyline I wanted and then go back and shoot footage of the doctors that would fit that.  I had some issues with this method, but the footage we were getting just wasn't enough.  And then an interesting thing happened. Sue suggested that the footage was strong enough to stand on it's own. Just have the interviews and that's it.  I was shocked  she suggested it because that's not the way we generally do things, but she was absolutely correct.

This was also the best working relationship I've had with our editor, Jeanne.  Ben and I shot most of the footage, Claudia shot a bit, I came up with the storyline in tried and true notecard fashion:

and then Jeanne put it all together with Katrina's help on graphics.  We worked together in terms of pulling out the footage the fit a particular segment (death and dying for example) but then she took it and wrapped it around and cut it up and made it flow.  It's really how I feel working with an editor should be.  I've always thought our workflow here could be improved and now I know that's the case.

It's also possible that this was a specific case due to a specific show because this isn't really like the regular videos we produce. I don't know, but I think one of the reasons this process worked better than some of the other shows I've produced is because each of us were allowed to bring our strengths to the table.

So overall, a good experience and I'm happy with this  22 minute product. I'm also really hoping that we're able to do the feature. First I need to come up with the greater storyline.....

thinking.....thinking.....