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This is how life has been feeling. This is the mood I'm in.

Looking at cameras to buy

Ever notice that almost every camera, I say almost cause there are some that just look BAD, will have videos that look amazing and others that look horrible. I can tell a lot of the bad ones are compression issues, it's just funny cause it makes it so you can tell who is good with that camera and who isn't. If you see 10 different videos on the same camera, pay attention to the good ones because that's the potental of the camera, you just have to make sure you know it enough to get the same results.

More grey hairs

went to do some more editing to my documentary...avid decided it was done working. Done altogether. Having to start completely over. Don't know why, don't care anymore, looks like another long night. It's events like this that make me wonder if it ever gets any easier. I'm working on 3 shorts at the same time, not including video club, plus full time classes, plus working 5 days a week. Every time I try to stop the stress by taking a deep breath, something else happens to steal the air from me and laugh in my face. I would just like one project I work on to go without any problems. Just one. Oh by on the upside here's a new quote I'm going to be using.

"Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality." - Emily Dickinson

really behind

This week has been hell. I found out I had a issue on my record because of a broken taillight in 2006, Brittany is working insane hours this month and hard to get use to, I lost my Visual Effects Artist for my other short and had to start learning how to do everything I needed in After Effects, And I started working. The main issue is the After Effects. I have never used after effect by myself before, and I have never taken a class until this quarter. I have watched at least 8 hours of tutorials in the last 3 days. I'm not even close to done, and the short is due by Friday night... fun times

Spirals in Life

It seems like every project I do ends up having at least one thing go wrong that I have to overcome. This current project is all the previous projects I have done times 10. I wrote the short "The Survivor" for a 3 minute or least film contest. It is an action adventure that took place in only one room, with a pick up shot on the dry lake-bed. The camera I wanted I couldn't get, during shooting I broke a picture frame, busted a tube of fake blood all over my carpet, had to edit the sound to the footage without reference sound on the footage, had issues exporting, couldn't get the audio to export separately, while refreshing footage the audio got mixed around all over the place somehow, had to re-edit the audio 4 times total before getting the software to work right, and now my visual effects artist had an emergency and is leaving town for a week.... I now have to figure out how to do all that myself (a tentacle grabbing someone, a cool title, putting in a fake city, Gun shot flashes, and a cool color correction to fix the mood)....and I only have 7 days to do it. Fun stuff.

TIghtening up the idea

After we watched my doc in class yesterday it got me thinking that even though I wanted to go very artistic with it, it may be too distracting. I'm going to put some artistic style into it, but not overload it through the whole doc like I originally planned.

post-interview

The hardest part about the interview was that she almost never talks about the death of her mother, and the interview made her recall some of the events and feelings she has been hiding inside. It's hard not to want to make a person feel better when they are crying, especially when you care for them so much. She was a little more depressed sounding then planned, but that's how a documentary works. You never know what they are going to say or do. And you can't plan that your cat isn't going to try to make them feel better.