Thursday, March 20, 2014

Approval to Film at Adams Homestede

Today i received approval from BLM to film in and on the Adams Home Stead.  We will be there on March 31st.  Im very excited.

It was a pretty easy getting the approval.  It took about a month.  3 weeks of that was waiting for a return phone call to initiate the process.  I wrote a proposal telling everything about the shoot.  The number of People involved, the equipment, how much time, who much damage we would do to the property...

Here is my letter:


Monday, March 17, 2014

There is HOPE



I was talking with a friend of mine who has vast experience with software and computer programing. Come to find out, his first real job after high school was forensic drive recovery.  He is going to take my hard drive and see what he can do... its a long shot, but what do I have to lose...  Right?

Monday, March 3, 2014

Switching My Tactics: Improving My State of Depression

I am really struggling lately with the loss of my interview footage ,  I feel my wind has been snatched out of my sail.  Its really hard to stay positive... so i have decided to switch my attention for a wile over to animation.  I plan to use a fair amount of animation in my project.

I watched a documentary called the missing piece and really liked the 2d animation he used and want to put use it in my project also



Im very excited about this project, it has a lot of potential.  There are even people who want to see it excepted it into DocUtah this year.


Another animation i plan to use in this, is a map of Silver Reef.  Which was plagued by fires.  We are going to burn the map to show where the fires were and the direction they spread.  Those are just a few i have planned!!! 

Friday, February 28, 2014

Lost Footage Update

No good news to report... we had an engineer here at the school attempt to recover the footage on the drive, but he was unsuccessful. It really looks like i am going to have to re film every interview from Saturday.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Disaster Strikes my project !!!


I went to upload my footage from the interviews yesterday before I left for the day... each drive holds 240 gigs of data.  That equates to about 7 hours of transfer time.   I figured I would start it and let it run over night... When I got to school today my heart sunk...

This is what i found!!!

Upon further investigation, i found that my hard drive had been erased. There was nothing left on it.  I am no computer expert and have no idea what happen... Sabotage you say? I don't think so, but never the less...It was blank.  To make matters worse, I only ran audio to one of the two cameras.  This drive was from the camera that captured audio too.  

I am sick right now. I don't know what I'm going to do. 

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Interview Day!!!

I got to school at 07:30am this morning ready to begin a very long day of filming interviews.  My first interview was on time.  by noon i had competed half of my interview. I thought things were going very smooth... then I got a phone call telling me that my next interview was running about 4 hours late, and with him was the rest of the people i was going to interview that day.  SUCK!!!

While  I was sitting on my butt waiting for my interviewees, Ashley was on site at Silver Reef to get B-Roll and film a geologist presentation on the phenomena of silver being found in Sand Stone.  It was a really good presentation...she did AWESOME

They showed up around 5pm with them was a guest interviewee... The Mayor of Leeds.  It was almost 9pm when i was done filming the interviews... and 11pm by time i was ready to leave.

While i was cleaning up, i realized i had kept the overhead work light on for all the evening interview.  I don't know how that is going to effect the footage. We will have to just wait and see.  

Friday, February 21, 2014

Green Screen Setup




We are officially less then 24hrs away from Interview Day.   I guess its time to set up the green screen.  Its become the catch all area, so i will take a lot of work to get it ready.  With the help of Dave Harris, Marcus and my boys we were able to clear it out quickly.





THE TRANSITION