Back from vacation. Spent Monday reviewing the e-mails, phone messages and packages that arrived during my absence, as well as ones from before I went away. As producer of various projects, one job has been planning some upcoming shoots.
Also spent some time Monday rebuilding a colleague's corrupt Encore DVD project (Encore CS3 has some sweet improvements over CS2, such as being stable, but still get some unknown errors.) Also made a cutdown DVD from alonger video for a client, put a time coded video online for another project and packed my gear for Tuesday's shoot.
Tuesday's shoot was to kickoff a new project about OB/GYN careers. The first shoot had us innterviewing several physicians, a medical student and shooting some clinical scenarios including an ultrasound exam on a mother expecting twins! The project is akin to a documentary, in that we are shooting as much as possible in several institutions, based upon our treatment, a predetermined list of questions, on the spot follow-up questions and brainstorming, then tying it all together with narration, still photos and music. Should be exciting and today was a great start.
Wednesday and Thursday will be spent scripting one of four videos being shot this weekend in Denver. We fly out Friday, pickup some rental gear (light kits, field video monitors and brick batteries), meet and greet with two hospitals and hopefully a Rockies game. On Saturday and Sunday we are using some local actors and a local audio guy, along with our three shooters, myself included, and about a dozen nurse-actors, and 4 nurse consultants advising us on technical correctitude. Should be 2 full days of hustle!
Fly home Monday, digitize everything from this week, and finalize plans for the next OB/GYN shoot the following week in Philadelphia, and finalize our editing schedule for the rest of the year.
Hit the ground running and never look back...something about a pillar of salt..?
Incidentally, this post is in the DV category, maybe we should have a Production category..?
Thanks to all for reading.
Mike
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