Week 16

The week of the showcase was full of late nights, drama, and glory! We showed the "final" cut to Laura who suggested we needed more B-roll of the actual people that we interviewed at St.Vincent Salem. David continues work on the Chapter motion graphics but is struggling to get a clear product during the zoom portion. Derek finishes up the score.

Two days before the showcase, Tyler and I go down to Salem to get more B-roll for the finished product. On the way down to the hospital we find out that they have no idea that we were coming. So, we do our best to explain who we were and why we have film equipment in their hospital willy nilly and they oblige and find us someone to escort us around the building to get shots we need. We feel like we got a lot of the shots we needed in the time we were giving and under the circumstances that we arrived.

We get back and log all the B-roll and Laura is completely disappointed with what we had shot. The next two nights, us T-Commers stay the night at VBC and edit up to the day of the showcase. It was a very hectic time but it was totally worth it to see our finished product at the showcase. It was a surreal feeling to see something we spent so long making on the big screen in front of all the people we care about and all the people we've interviewed.

Week 15

With a week left to go before the showcase, things are getting into place. There was a lot of drama about motion graphics and we decided to scratch the whole idea and just do a little bit of motion graphics in between chapters of our documentary. This would be handled by David while we continue editing.

Some more drama emits as far as the musical score for the documentary goes. Derek's friends told us that there was just not enough time between us getting them a somewhat final cut and the showcase for them to get a score together. We decided to put Derek in charge of laying down some tracks for the showcase version and have his friends get the score ready for the emmy nominated version. I thought Derek did an amazing job, especially for the amount of time he had to get it all ready. Meanwhile, we get a what we thought was a pretty good final cut to show laura for critique.

Week 13/14

Us T-Commers finally are back were we belong, the editing room. Deb, Derek, Tyler, and Nick had been story boarding and had a rough story for us to put together. For the last two weeks we have been compiling footage and placing it together to make a story to show to the class and Joe and Laura.

We changed the story many times and each time the story board team had to put something new together for us to edit into place. Joe and Laura had some things that wanted to change and then Shane and I had some things that we wanted to change and it became a back an forth thing until we had something that we were somewhat happy with and could actually start fine tuning.

Shane and I eventually made our own cut that went off of the story boarding team's vision but we felt that it was a much more clear story line and just flowed better. We once again showed the class and got input and changed some final things.

Week 12

New Hampshire was amazing! So much driving though. Shane insisted on driving the entire way so not much rest for his co-pilot Jimmy... damn Dorothy syndrome. Anyway, we got to New Hampshire smoothly and found our place of rest - a bed in breakfast in the middle of nowhere. I was certain we would all be murdered. We meet the owner and his daughter who were lovely and we watched Toy Story on VHS because we found a time machine apparently.

The next day was an early one as we made our way to Dartmouth College. It was a beautiful campus and I'm pretty sure I was smart enough to be there but I entered anyway. Sydney was amazing and I was certain we had found the star of our film - and only 16 hours away! Who'da thought. We interviewed him in his office in front of his books and got a whole hour of good solid footage. It was sad leaving New Hampshire but I was excited to stop and stay in New York on the way back.

By the time we got to our hotel in Buffalo, it was dark. We made friends with the valet guy there Chad and then continued up to our room. It was a nice hotel and Kara and I watched America's Best Dance Crew as David and Shane checked out the pool. We went to bed somewhat early because we knew we had a long day ahead of us.

The next morning we went to visit Niagra Falls before we had to make our long drive back to campus. Niagra Falls was amazing even though we couldn't go over to the Canadian side (leaglly). I even got a picture on Nicoli Tesla's lap. Well, eventually we had to leave and I'll skip the boring part of us driving and get to us returning to the VBC. We capture, log, and transcribe Syd the following day.

Week 11

This week was awesome! Finally, we got to go out of state and visit Chicago. I had never been to the main part of the city of Chicago before. We went to Corbett Accel and were greeted with food and drinks fit for kings! After a full round of interviews, we got to the James Hotel and wow! This was the nicest hotel I have stayed in ever. The rooms looked so futuristic. That night we went out on the town, had some pizza and headed back to the hotel for some bonding with the team. It was nice to have the whole group on a trip. We had a lot of fun and Shane and I definitely did not go to the pier and have a late night adventure. We also didn't meet a couple of asian girls at the pier, ride the bus with them and a nice lady who just watched Alice and Wonderland and then we most definitely did not give a hobo a glove and get lost in downtown Chicago only to find our way back with the help of a couple British smokers. ;)

The next day we went back and finished up our interviews and left back for Muncie. sad face* The rest of the week was full of transcribing and convincing Joe and Donna to let Shane, Kara, David, and myself to go to New Hampshire to film a professor at Dartmouth. Of course, we did convince them. Win. I so excite!

Week 10

Ahhh, this week was a fun one. We started off the week by going to Brandon's home and interviewed his two uncles and his father. The Schenk Triangle. I thought they were a myth. Anyways, this was a fun group and completely the opposite of Brandon. They had a very interesting story to tell about how they came up with this product and started their business and how they really focused on the people.

Later that week we traveled down to Indy and talked with a bunch of high ups at Huntington Bank. When I say high ups I mean that literally. We got on an elevator and went to a secret top floor with the execs meet. I felt very special and we had a great shot with the top of Indy in the background. Each person we talked to had a unique perspective whether they came from Huntington or Skyy. A lot of the people talked about staring down each other from across the street which made me think there was a war in the streets and I liked that.

We also got to get Kathie Onieal on film and she was all that I remembered. We wanted to film her in the solarium but we didn't take in account that the lighting would be so difficult. We continued onward and hoped we could fine tune it in post.

Week 9

SPRING BREAK!! PARTYING IT UP IN ... oh, wait. I was home in the good ol' town of Warshington.