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!