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Nuthin' better to do but shoot people
Jul. 11th, 2002 08:33 amBoredom struck hard, so I spent yesterday morning tinkering with the camcorder and the editing software. Great fun. Basically I hung out over by the lake and shot tourists, scenery, and more tourists (and a carpenter taking his shirt off; I don't think he knew he was on camera). I only got about three and a half minutes of footage, because I only had one quarter for the parking meter, but it was enough to play with. Once I got home, I kludged it together with a voice-over and some ominous-sounding Michael Hedges music into the introduction of a hypothetical Twin-Peaks-y, death-comes-to-a-small-town type flick (title: A Long, Dark Summer in Lake George), about a minute in length. It's very silly, and there's NO WAY I'm doing anything with it, but I loved the process. Total production time: 2 hours, from leaving the house with camera to final product, and that includes a stop at the grocery store and a social call to Kristi at work, who threatened slow, painful murder if I filmed her. Pity, that. I could've used a mysterious Femme Fatale.
On a related note, Verizon is sponsoring a contest for its employees to create a 30-second commercial. First prize: T-shirts and a pizza party. When did I land back in junior high school, and why didn't anyone tell me? Anyway, I signed up to participate, but later I had second thoughts; they're looking for a team effort, and I already know that I'd be a really bad team player on this one. (My tendency would be to make something like that PowerBar clip where the pallbearer accidentally drops the dearly beloved down the hill. I know I'm in the right family because we all laughed our patooties off over that one.) So I blew off the initial meeting, but Karen, one of the project people, hunted me down and asked if I could do video editing at all. Sigh. Oh, well, Terry Gilliam just did a commercial, so who am I to complain? I'll keep y'all posted.
I'm realizing that I'm being a negligent LiveJournalist, in that I haven't overloaded my entries with Nifty Cool Links. I guess I don't do enough random surfitude to produce the necessary nifties, but I promise I'll do better. In the meantime, if you're a game lover and you're not already aware of Funagain Games, I've just doomed you for life by bringing it to your attention.
Oh, and one more note about yesterday: What kind of flippin' moron forgets one item on a two-item shopping list? Uh, that would be, um, me. I need to get root beer today.
On a related note, Verizon is sponsoring a contest for its employees to create a 30-second commercial. First prize: T-shirts and a pizza party. When did I land back in junior high school, and why didn't anyone tell me? Anyway, I signed up to participate, but later I had second thoughts; they're looking for a team effort, and I already know that I'd be a really bad team player on this one. (My tendency would be to make something like that PowerBar clip where the pallbearer accidentally drops the dearly beloved down the hill. I know I'm in the right family because we all laughed our patooties off over that one.) So I blew off the initial meeting, but Karen, one of the project people, hunted me down and asked if I could do video editing at all. Sigh. Oh, well, Terry Gilliam just did a commercial, so who am I to complain? I'll keep y'all posted.
I'm realizing that I'm being a negligent LiveJournalist, in that I haven't overloaded my entries with Nifty Cool Links. I guess I don't do enough random surfitude to produce the necessary nifties, but I promise I'll do better. In the meantime, if you're a game lover and you're not already aware of Funagain Games, I've just doomed you for life by bringing it to your attention.
Oh, and one more note about yesterday: What kind of flippin' moron forgets one item on a two-item shopping list? Uh, that would be, um, me. I need to get root beer today.
