I finally got my interview with the owner of SG Pipe Organs. He has been building instruments for forty years and was amazing to interview and photography. Here are some photos.
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Here is my projected timeline for the rest of Spring 2014.
An interview took place on Saturday. Instead of using the auto white balance, I tried the old school way. This involved putting a sheet of paper in front of the camera and measuring it. I was very disappointed in the results and will follow the professor suggestion of sticking with the auto setting.
Monday and Tuesday, I spent five hours on ingesting video with Adobe Prelude. This application allows the creation of a Rough Cut. Tags were added to each cut to describe what it contained. Then the Rough Cut was exported to Premier Pro.
I use a Nikon D5100 for capturing my video. Two recurring problems have been exposure spikes and headroom. The class helped research these problems and these are the causes:
I had a shoot scheduled with the owner of the pipe organ in construction. Solving the problems I encountered has re-framed my attitude about having an interview cancelled last week. I feel confident in getting the best interview with the most important person.
I want to one of my intended outcomes for this course. I think getting certified for Adobe Premier might have been too ambitious. Instead I would like to focus on entering the Gulf Coast Film and Video Festival. More to come later.
I shot two interviews and recorded with my new Zoom. I still have not watched or listened to all of my footage. I need to work on focus more. I have a trip planners to the workshop on Friday to interview the owner of the pipe organ that is being built.
I finished the second segment of my script, the shot list for those two segments and the questions for my first interview this weekend. I also have a planned shoot at the workshop where my friend is building the pipe organ for the convention in 2016.
I practiced setting up the lights and camera for the interviews. I listened to audio tests for different mics that I recorded at my mom’s church. I was not happy with the on-camera mic, the lavaliere mic nor the condenser mic. So, I ordered the Zoom H4N Handy Portable Digital Recorder today. Last weekend, I went to see some friends play music and one of them is the sound man for the Houston Grand Opera. He told me that this little device would do the trick. This is the same device Professor Brims recommended. Imagine that!! Below is a shot I took of the Zoom H4N attached to the ceiling.
I visited the American Guild of Organist website to verify that their convention will be held in here in 2016. Since my last I visited, the site had been updated and could not find the information. I called the office in New York City and started asking questions about statistics about obsolete instruments. I got a call back from one of the officers and we talked for about 20 minutes. I did not receive the information I was looking for but came away with some fresh ideas.
These photographs were taken with a camera on the lend. Not sure what model but a Nikon. I went with automatic and this is what I rendered. I am excited about returning and witnesses the progress.
my camera made it to the nikon repair center.
my mom found the missing shoe for the BEST tripod in the closet.
exlporing mic-ing capabilities and lighting the scene
This playlist includes some of the shot I would like to capture. Wolfgang Sieber is amazing.
This a screen shot of Adobe Story Plus. I found it by accident at the beginning of the semester and have been using it ever since. It really is a database for media production. I will post exported text files to show the depth of this app, so check back to see what I have learned and want to share. Now, on with the proposal.
Screaming Pipes:Personality of the Pipe Organ will produce several segments that will tie into a documentary portfolio piece. Key topics that form the are historical aspects, the intertwining of art and science, recycling, rebuilding and saving the pipe organ. This documentary will cover a few local pipe organs to go hear live. Screaming Pipes should entertain, educate and connect with the
audience compelling the viewer to go hear the instrument live. The project will possess an upbeat pace and include a transition-heavy introduction, lively comments and beautiful images of the instrument.
Five three-minute digital media projects.
The use of a project and this document was created in Adobe Story Plus. This application produces scripts, lists, schedules. reports, and metadata to use in other Adobe products. My editing environment include tools available through my Creative Cloud. Prelude provides ingesting and trans-coding media; then will then by processed by Premiere Pro. I realize now that I will also be using Adobe Audition.
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