Wed Mar 4

Tonight we finished Trance TV episode 2! Sean and I met in the early evening to compile using some leftover footage we had and by creating some new segments.

I was able to finish the Forehead segment, shown in it's completion above, and Sean helped me complete finish the audio in Garage Band. We worked for several hours to complete the project, eventually finishing at 2 in the morning.

We were never able to reach our third producer, so between the two of us we came up with an additional 10 minutes of footage, when included with the 10 minutes we had both completed individually brought our final show to about 30 minutes total.

Tomorrow we will drop the tape off early in the morning so that it wil lbe able to play on Friday! This has been a strenuous time, making up for our no-show, but we did it, and both of us are very proud of the episode.

Tue Mar 3

Finished audio work for Trance TV, nature finished, forehead getting therep. I have been playing with various public domain found footage. The forhead segment is causing me some grief. I keep trying various different combinations of sequences and clips, but it remains difficult to make the foreheads all fly out of one another. This is like a big puzzle. I know exactly what i want it to look like, but i stil can't quite make it work. However, each time i try and fail i learn something new... so... at least there is that.



Need to work with sean to complete the soundtracks. I designed the audio for the nature sequence by myself, but my other clips will need music and i have been running into walls trying to design my own. Sean's input would be greatly appreciated. I will show my footage to him tomorrow.

Fri Feb 27

Felt sick, but decided to be productive regardless. After viewing my nature footage from the time defeated shoot i decided i needed more. Went to evergreen and tried some stuff out.

Tue Feb 26

Had a meeting with Joel about editing the Moonrunners shoot for Time Defeated. We have been having issues trying to find times that work for both of us to edit the footage. Today he told me that i should just edit it myself and show him the finished product. So now i guess that is what i will do. I had been holding off so that we could edit together.

Tues Feb 24

Feeling very inspired today, went to TCTV more or less on a whim. I recently had been cultivating an idea for a Trance TV segment involving foreheads. MY plan was to film as many foreheads i could get, then in Final Cut, superimpose a thought balloon onto their foreheads, then play little thought videos. Eventually the foreheads would start thinking of other foreheads and the camera will zoom into the forehead to the next one. Then there would be a chain of foreheads all flying into each other.

So i went to TCTV and set up a greenscreen in Studio A, then started asking all the people at TCTV if they wanted to be a part of our show, members, staff, freelancers, everyone! Just about everyone i asked said yes, that's the beauty of public access in action! So i filmed them all close up from just above the tops of their heads to their mouths and directed them to make some various faces. Each take lasted about 30 seconds.

Another idea I was able to film that day I had been thinking about since we were working on the first episode. Which is a string of random, unrelated objects placed onto a pedastle in front of a uniformly colored screen. The effect would be slow, but it is intended to make people think: "why am i seeing all these objects?" Anyway, since i had the greenscreen set up I decided to shoot that project as well.

Lastly I started to capture everything. Along with the footage I had shot I also had a tape of footage I had filmed earlier when I was at my dad's house. It was unrelated, but I had promised I would cut it together for him, so i decided to capture it at the same time. As it was capturing i was still playing with the camera and discovered that filming the capturing process created two very unique styles of video, one kind of choppy, from the capture screen, and the other with dots and swirls from the deck monitor. I ended up re-filming almost the entire tape I had gotten from my dad, only to capture it again just a minute later. I love how it looks.

One more thing, the greenscreen this time around was perfect. I kept the people farther away from the screen than usual and the line around their head is crisp. It keys out beautifully. All of this is working so well!

Mon Feb 23

Captured footage from Moonrunners shoot. Unfortunately the audio on the main camera, the one with mics, did not turn out very well. I suspect that the XLR cable for the shotgun mic was faulty. However the camera that I was running got good audio. Both these shots look very nice. The third camera however, seems to have either malfunctioned or just wasn't recording for the first third of the performance. This seems like it might be a bit problematic. Joel wants to meet to edit it together, which is good. I like editing with a little outside direction.

In other news, some of the incidental footage from early on the tape inspired me to work on something for Trance TV. I'm going to create a sound track first, with a haunting but peaceful beginning, then start interupting the peaceful stuff with grating noise. Then I will use the nature footage that i shot as the visuals, hopefully creating a medative nature viewing state at first and then breaking the viewer out of it.

Sun Feb 22

Episode 1 of Time Defeated aired for the first time on TCTV channel 22 at 5pm today.

Sat Feb 21

Filmed Moonrunners for Time Defeated. They played in a tree. 3 camera shoot. Once again used a shotgun mic and an omni. Got lots of good nature footage to mix in and make it more exciting, although it is pretty exciting already.

Fri Feb 20

Recorded Margy Pepper's song Little Cat. Alex and I recorded in my living room. My first experience with music recording. Each part of the song recorded seperately. Alex recorded the tracks and said he will get me a mix as soon as he can.

Mon Feb 16

Met with Time Defeated. Planned Moonrunners shoot. The band had decided they wanted to perform their set in a tree. The would tie their instruments in a tree and we would film them playing from at least 3 different angles. From the ground and from two seperate sides in other surrounding trees. This sounds very exciting.