Getting down to it for real

So my goal for right now was to have everything pretty much edited and be adding the music, but TJ, my musician friend, can't get the music to me until he gets back to LA, he's been sticking around New Haven after Yale's quarter is up to finish up on extra curriculars, then he's going to LA where his friend has this huge studio and all the equipment and programs he needs to make the music.  He said he would have it for me by Sunday, which means I'll add it on monday and be able to turn it in either monday or tuesday.  Still, as a back up, I've emailed some artists asking for permission to use their pieces in my video, and they've not emailed me back.  I figure worse comes to worst, I'll make something up myself on Garageband or something.  I'm pretty confident in TJ tho, he just go the dates mixed up, but I believe he's good on his word.  

I'm not used to this approach to filmmaking.  I have experience in film making, but I always have an idea of what I want, very specifically.  Like I usually don't even start until I have a very detailed storyboard laid out.  This time I just dove in, gathering inspiration as i gathered resources.  In theory this should be an adventure.  It is, i suppose, and adventure in some aspects.  But not the kind of adventures Dora the Explorer takes.  This is Gooneys-type shit.  Hopefully I'll find a pirate ship full of precious trinkets.    

Can somebody bring a camera/tape with them to shoot the title today?  My camera video quality isn't amazing, plus I've already used like, 4 tapes.  :-/

Interviews

I shot some interviews today.  They went well and I'm excited to start finding visuals to accompany the speeches.  

Usually it's like pulling teeth to get help on projects.  Usually it's like, getting people to try to act though.  Like memorize a script and such.  So i guess this project is a little different.  But still, I mention it to people, just in casual conversation, and I get rxns like, "ooh that's awesome!  I wanna be a part of that!"  Seriously, interviews are like, falling into my lap.  I just hope I can do them justice.  :-)  Don't forget to meet at my house at 4:30 on Thursday to shoot the title sequence.  The addy is on the previous post.  Call for directions or questions, (513) 885-5240

Wheeee!

Hey guys.  My addy is 72 E. Frambes Ave.  It's like two houses past Tuller.  

Let's meet here at 4:30 this Thursday, the 21.  Everyone bring their color of paint.  Whatever kind you want to use, although try to stray away from like, oil based paints.  We want stuff that's runny, so that rules out acryllic paint.  I'm planning on just going to the kids crafts section of wal mart and buying one of those big bottles of water based paint. 

black videos

Didn't listen to the song, just watched the visual.  Kinda cool, not really my style but i might modify some of those ideas.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruc1jTK2H_s

Materials

I'm heading to wal mart to grab some big black sheets.  I think today i am going to just film some black things, just kind of in my room with the stuff I already have.  I'm trying to think of things that are cool to look at that are black. My favorite one right now is like, when girls who wear makeup cry, their black mascara streams down their face.  So that's kind of cool looking.  I think might try to film that today.  I'll get my room mate to do it though, cause my skin's not very pretty :-/.  You think that dot at the end of the smiley is a period to end the sentence.  It's not.  It's a pimple.  Even textually, my skin clearly sucks.  

I was also thinking we could work together through the filming of this stuff.  Like if we need a camera person for whatever reason, or someone to help set up lights or whatever, we should use each other as resources.  If we need to.  Of course I don't mean to volunteer anyone but myself. 

Really I just need to go shopping.  Damn.  

How do i see other people's blogs?

Everytime I go to someone else's blog, I am redirected to a screen that says I have to be invited by that person to see their blog, but I can't contact them to get an invitation.  I feel like this isn't supposed to be this hard :-/

Seminar Project

So i am thinking that I am going to do either black or black and white for my colors documentary.  I have some really cool ideas for visual transitions and stuff, but I feel like I will need a better quality camera to really do them to my liking than the cannon that I own or the hand-held cannons the dmp has.  I wonder if there's any where i can borrow a camera built for effects?  I just really can't stand grainy footage, and my camera certainly gets that.  I suppose I could just buy an HD tape, but If i don't have an HD camera that will do me little good.  Are the DMP cameras HD?  I also think it might be cool to do another color, but i don't know which.  The only colors I feel like I wouldn't get bored with are red and green.  Ooh i just thought of gold. I could do so much with gold: value, royalty, superficialism, or maybe play with the idea that you add metal, industry, class, you classify and materialize a happy color like yellow and you get gold which can sort of become a black hole.  See, the idea of a black hole would be soooo cool though!  like using that metaphor.  There are so many things i could do visually with a black hold metaphor.  ugh.  So many ways to go with this.    

Notes apr. 23?

Posing questions--> audience

Directing it to the audience, the demographic of your piece.  

Strategies

Purposes

Showing v telling--> Create the situation--recreation in rhetoric

Logos-->Logical appeal

Pathos--> Emotional appeal

Ethos--> Ethical appeal

Authority--> who are you to persuade me? 

Describe rhetorical conventions of Hell House.

 audiences [and purposes]--

Generational rxn

non-christians--to explain the unknown 

also people unfamiliar with the pentecostal denomination

Christians

to explain where Hell House "crosses the line"

Maybe an argumentative text, where he doesn't connect to the teachings of Hell house

Socially Progressive Groups

Giving these "others" the benefit of the doubt showing the humanity of these   individuals

Also, to warn, point finger at, find fault with

ACTUAL V. INTENDED AUDIENCE

Intended--> liberal

actual--> maybe conservative? 

"Cold Camera" we're not told how to feel by the lens.  

Objective--universality

shot set ups 

assembly line, 

elevated, christlike shot

so, anybody know what's going on?

I don't really know what's going on in class. i guess i should explore carmen or something cause i have no clue what scotts talking about most of the time. not his fault, im just confused :-/