Last Wednesday, This Saturday

So last Wednesday night I finished my day job and went directly to CAPS-TV Ventura to start viewing the Lynda.com Final Cut Pro CD for instructions on how to use this program.  The teacher was very cool, a guy named Larry Jordan.  He’s a good teacher but I must not be a very good student because after four hours of Final Cut Pro instruction, I knew this was going to be an even steeper learning curve than iMovie was.  My mentors at CAPS are encouraging me to segue to Final Cut as soon as possible but for now I'm sticking with iMovie.  Enough with the learning curve.  I want to finish editing “Voices” before I die.

This is not to say that I’m not going to finish the initial Lynda.com CD.  Larry, I’ll be listening to your dry humor and mega instructions again next Wednesday night.  But after that, it’s back to iMovie and trying to trick iMovie into doing the things I want it to do.

And I’m going to HIRE an editor to edit together the three cameras of my WAV concert from last year.  I’ll have it edited little by little as I get the extra cash.

OK, so that was last Wednesday.  Now it is Friday and I’ve just taken out the camera again for two more interviews scheduled to shoot tomorrow.  These interviews are of another two audience members who were at the live performance that August afternoon in 2010.  And this should be interesting because I’ll be shooting while it is pouring outside.  Rain in Southern California happens maybe four times a year and this weekend will be one of those times.  I'll have no light kit with me so this will be a test to see if my instincts are right.  To see if I get enough soft light coming in from outside to create a pretty and flattering picture.

Learn as I go . . . Learn as I go.

Oh and by the way, today somebody asked me about the Performance Page on my website (http://tonijannotta.com/perf.html).  They wanted to attend one of my performances.  But all the performances listed there are from last year.  I don’t have a single thing coming up.  I’m going to have to change that page.  Man, did that ever feel bad.