Video play by play

Starting out strong. We brainstorm, it goes well. After our first meeting, we break for the weekend, planning to meet with storyboards to start shooting. Everything is fine.
First day of shooting comes along, we go to Will Vill. A freshman lets us into the building, and we descend o the basement level. Long corridors with florescent lighting, looks like a hospital or something. Happy fun fun time. We feel good with what we’ve shoot. Time to call it a wrap.
Next class period, we capture what we had shot, and begin a rough edit. Takes longer than expected, but no worries. Do some more planning, with Saturday as our second shooting day. I come in late and keep working on the first section.
Saturday, I’m taking pictures of Friday nights graffiti leavings on the hill, when I get a message from Laura. She’s feeling ill, we’re gonna hold off for a day.
Sunday, we meet, go over some shooting plans, gather costumes elements and head up the mountain. Shooting goes well, although it is quite cold. We had a lot of fun with some ad lib acting, changed in the dirt parking lot, and ran past strangers in some interesting outfits.
Monday. My foot hurts. Limp to art history for an essay test, then limp to another building for another test, this one multiple choice. Later that evening, I come to the lab and finish the first section we had roughed out. Some bits that still irk me, but overall I’m pretty satisfied. Go home for a few seconds of sleep. Can’t fall asleep because of my foot hurting. I decide I have dislocated my toe.
Tuesday. Toe still hurts. Worse. I go to the hospital, and am diagnosed with gout. They give me some pills that are supposed to make my toe better. “careful” says the nurse, “this stuff can mess with your stomach a little”. A little, yeah, look I can spell understatement.
Evening, lab time. For some reason the computer I was working on won’t run Final cut anymore, so we transfer all of our files to the techne lab. That’s a big step down in processing power (I lose a gig of ram and 2 point something of processor speed).
We begin to capture Sundays footage, and decide we need to split the group. The girls will stay and work on video stuff, while I head home to work on an audio track. My foot is hurting like crazy, and I’m having trouble concentrating.
I finish a track and a backup track, and begin worrying about the girls. Its getting late. After a phone call or two I found they were having issues. They had tried to export, and apparently that wasn’t working. They tried to print to tape, at my request, and got stuck with Sean for way too long trying to trouble-shoot, cause that wasn’t working either. My foot was throbbing, and I couldn’t walk all the way back to the lab. If I had legal vehicular access to campus… but I don’t.
So Wednesday. I come in to copy what the girls did last night to tape so that I can finalize the audio track. But I can’t access the little lab, where our files are.
I leave. I come back later. AJ lets me into the little lab. I can’t access the files cause they were saved into sean’s user folder. Laura and Sally come to help. We get in touch with sean, gain access to the files, open the project, and find that somehow the girls had made their project in DVCPROHD format. We re-edit. Go to render. The computer won’t render. I can’t print to tape if it isn’t rendered. AJ has to leave, but gives us the idea to transfer all of our files back over the server to the large lab. We do, it seems to be working, and AJ leaves. Its not working. The files are corrupt, the program is the wrong version, Elvis is dead. There is no more tech support to be had.
So. We build two new sections. Different. Spooky. Fun.
Will it work? Burst into flames? Tomorrow when I come in to try and pull all the bits together we will see. Oh yes. We will see. Now I’m gonna limp home. My foot hurts.