This episode and the next was in the can and waiting for post before I left for Canada last week. I thought about post dating these episodes, but that seems a little dishonest.
Podcaster's Across Borders was a great event, met a bunch of people and got a lot of ideas to chew on. It wasn't a technical conference, it was more about networking and idea sharing. I've never been to the Portable Media Expo, now called New Media Expo, which will be out in California later this summer, August 14, but I have been to Podcamp in Boston.
All three events are different in how they approach social media and there's something valuable to be learned from attending all of them. Podcamp and PAB are within driving distance, but California is too far for me to travel this year. I would say that PAB was the most informal. The schedule was packed though and most conversations I had were short and had to be followed up at the end of the day's sessions.
Give me a few days and I'll have a post up for that, along with some brief interviews I recorded.
Talking about whining. What do you want from me? Well, that's the question this time around.
I would like to know how real I should be reporting the student experience; it's not just the subject matter in class. I believe that how you cope with the demands of school will tell you how you will deal with the pressures of production work in the real world. Just another undocumented learning opportunity in the curriculum of life.
I've reached the point where I have enough material to begin editing and begin shaping the story of my film. I've got a lot of work ahead of me with almost 300 gigs of video, about 12 hours of footage. Organizing this much footage is going to be critical in order to meet the September deadline for the final cut.
Over the past week I had the following shoots and classes:
- Two days shooting a Raku firing
- Shooting B-roll at Sturbridge Village
- Interviewing Dot Burnworth at Sawmill Pottery
- The class this week was the beginning of Post Production Audio
- We're going to score music for a film we've already created
- Using sound effects and foley on a commercial
- Using the audio tools in Avid and FCP
- Outputting the audio form a film to OMF for editing in a dedicated audio application, like Pro Tools.
- The physics of audio, including the inverse square law
- Last day of the week I met with and interviewed Ron Sbardella, a veteran potter of 25 years.
