Video

[gfish]

I wish I had time to do more video projects. It certainly isn't going to happen in the next few months, if all goes well. All I've been doing is recording the occasional event as a favor to people, which is pretty blah. Both tedious (can't do much but stand there minding the camera) and nerve-wracking (you only get one take!).

Part of my problem is that I'm kind of tired of doing short films. I still have a lot to learn, but they just aren't that rewarding anymore for the effort. I know I can do them, and do them pretty well. Hell, what I consider our best work was done in just 48 hours. All the project ideas that interest me now are big.

So instead I'll just feel guilty about not using the moderately nice equipment I've collected, I guess. The dilettante's curse. At least it's really nice to have on hand when my services are drafted.

Comments

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Part of the issue is also having a decent work space for it. Preferably a separate one. We didn't, and so my living room was taken over for two months or so by foam core sets and cameras and lighting and a hell of a lot of clay. Bits of clay everywhere. Hardly a space to sit down without moving or possibly destroying something. If you've got a basement or a spare room or something, use that. Be prepared for the project to take a long time and not to be very stash-away-able, so wherever it lives it's likely going to live there the whole time. That was the major pain on my end.

Another part of the issue was simply that due to lack of space, the computer was on a very low table, so Fishy ended up with wicked backaches from bending down to hit the spacebar to capture each frame. Either a remote control or an easy-access location for your computer are advised.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Hm. Based on this I foresee moving the whole computer setup. There's probably a space I can commandeer in the basement, though.