A Long Saturday

Tomorrow should be interesting.  I'll have the camera AND I'll be in the editing booth.  First I'm going to try editing some music in an effort to learn more about the program.  I'm using iMovie 11.  So far I can fade the transitions from one shot to another,  I can overlay sound traks, I can copy and paste and delete and perform a number of cool functions that come in dialogue boxes that I'm starting to understand.  Then after my time allotment is up at station, I'll be a cameraman again.  I haven't picked up the camera now for 4 weeks while I've been editing.  I hope I remember how to work it.  I'm going to interview a social worker who was in the audience the day of the Voices of the Homeless performance.  I want to find at least one more audience person to interview.  I've interviewed the people on stage.  Now I want to interview the people who saw it.

And by the way, today was a pretty exciting day in the Department of Small Change.  CAPS-TV Ventura, our local public access station and my home-away-from-home, not only offers their training and their equipment to its members but it requires you to produce programming.  Today my first little production, "Judy Scott Tai Chi Chuan" aired for its entire 5 minutes and 28 seconds at 1pm.  I ran home at lunch and watched it on television feeling like I was watching a real television show.  Well, I WAS watching a real television show.  It was just on a little public access station. 

And WOW the feeling of accomplishment I had!  I mean really, I felt good. 

I hope I have that same feeling when I finish Voices of the Homeless and watch it air on Channel 6.  I hope I have that same feeling when I submit it to various film festivals, or whoever I can submit it to.  I hope I'm proud enough of it.

But first there is tomorrow and more shooting, and more sitting in the editing bay trying to learn what the hell I'm doing.