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.

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. 

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.  

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 

Interview Day updates

Just confirmed all of my interviews for Saturday. WOW!!! Its going to be along day.  My first interview begins at 9am and they go straight through until after 8PM.


Today i got a phone call from Eric, the manager of the Silver Reef Museum, he gave the me number of a lady who played Mrs. Grams in a ghosts from the past exhibit they put on in Silver Reef.  She is very knowledgeable about Mrs. Grams the influence she carried in this town.  She has agreed to interview with me on Saturday.

We also got permission from Marc to film his presentation. Marc is a well known geologist who will be speaking at Silver Reef on Saturday. He is going to talk about the town and the geologic anomaly of silver in sandstone.  I am not sure how much of it will make it to the TV show, but it will be great to archive it for later usage.

I got the Music Blues

I am at a cross roads right now and I am not sure how to handle it.  I have very ambitious ideas of what i would like to do with the TV show. One things for sure, I am going to turn this project into a documentary. I would also like to submit to into some film festivals. 

The problem I foresee with this idea is the music i decide to use.  Under the license of Dixie State University, i can legally use almost any song i desire. However, once i show the film outside of the Collage I am no longer protected by the DSU umbrella. For that reason alone, i am tempted to produce an original score to circumvent this problem all together. 


I only have one question. How in the world do you go about creating an original score? 

Intervies are Scheduled

I am pleased to announce that we have all of our interviews scheduled!!!

This is not our green screen, but it looks very similar

We will be filming them on the Feb 22nd.  Its going to be a long day!!!!  I have scheduled back to back interviews in Studio B beginning at 9am and ending at 8pm. We are going to be filming on the green screen.  I am really excited about this. I have never really had a chance to work with the green screen before and we are donating all the footage to the Washington County Historical Society. Since it will be shot on a green screen, it can be used countless time by simply changing the background.

Cosmopolitan in Silver Reef

There will also be a geologist, Marc Deshowitz, speaking at the Cosmopolitan located at Silver Reef that morning.  My co producer Ashlee will be filming his speech and then filming an interview after. Here is a link from the spectrum about the event: http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20140212/NEWS01/302120011/Learn-about-geology-old-mining-area

Jerry Anderson

 We are also planning on her conducting an interview with Jerry Anderson, who lives in Silver Reef and is well known for is sculptures and artwork of Silver Reef. While she is there she will also be filming b-roll of Silver Reef, china town, The cemetery, The land scape, and the old mining equipment that is scattered about.

The Wells Fargo Stage Coach

I have an opportunity to possibly get the Wells Fargo Stage coach to use during one of our shoots. I am very excited about this. We have a lot of ideas on how we will utilize the footage.

We are hopping to use the stage coach, first and foremost, as part of the Charlie Parkhurst story. We would also like to get some footage of the coach being pulled through the desert by horses and driven by an actor dressed in costume similar to what a stage coach driver would have looked like in the late 1800's. 

Some other ideas we entertaining are using the coach as a prop when we talk about the Wells Fargo Building, and in the opening introduction of the TV show. If used in the introduction, we would have our narrator in the coach. The coach being pulled by horse. The coach would pull up in front of the wells fargo building and stop. The narrator would then get out of the coach to begin the introduction. 

Interview with Karen Kondazian, The author of "The Whip"

Lady Luck is shining on us!!! Karen Kondazian, author of The Whip, has agreed to film an interview in LA and send it to us for the TV Show.