I started my internship this week at Free Speech. I'm prettty excited about learning more about video and TV production. I've never worked on producing television content before and and can tell that it is something I am going to enjoy. On Wednesday I took the directors role for the Action Calendar. This meant communicating with the control room, operating the camera, and queing Anoinette. It was pretty straight forward but definitely good to learn. I was also assigned my regular responisiblities for the duration of my internship. I will be handling and operating the camera for the weekly street interviews. This is cool with me; I love cameras and filming and will have a lot of fun with it. I am hopeful to learn more than just the camera aspects though. I want to get better with Final Cut and would really like to learn as much about After Effects as possible. I'm going to be producing a film for Mestro West Housing this spring, about their role in providing affordable housing, and I am hoping that the experience I gain from working at Free Speech will benefit this project. I am also hopeful to meet new people who are working in the same field and can share some of their knowledge with me. That's about it for now.
-Mark Hinchey
Friday, January 28, 2011
Action Calendar
Just wanted to do a recap of Adam's meeting regarding the Action Calendar. Way to take the initiative to put this together Adam, I think this was needed to iron out some kinks. First and foremost. Eliza and Megan with be taking producing roles for the Action Calendar. Eliza will deal with the posting of the events, scripts and floor directing. Megan will deal with graphics, IDDR and production. Please make it a priority to post 4 events for next week and send your links to Eliza at eliza@freespeech.org. After events are posted Eliza with the help of Ginny can create the scripts for the day. Then Megan will create the graphics with the help of Dan. Then graphics will be transferred to the IDDR, then checked. On Wednesday, graphics will be scanned though, scripts timed, mic check and production will begin. Looking forward to a new and improved Action Calendar. Thanks for all the hard work guys.
-Lauren
-Lauren
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Just another Tuesday...
Hey All!
So, I just read my two Alternet articles today and I have to say, I love this website! It covers just about everything. One of my articles today was a review of MTV's version of a British television show (Skins) that debuted early last week. I thought it was interesting because it focused on America's love/hate relationship with sex, especially teenage sex. Sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of and everything that made Britain's Skins amazing, compelling and relateable has sadly been stripped out of MTV's version, boooo MTV!
Anyway... last week Shay showed me how to edit Your Voice Here and we were able to edit out the MLK marade and go through the footage we shot about anchor babies and how they are evil and must be stopped! Just kidding, its a serious topic for a serious problem that our government just doesn't seem able to address in a proper way.
Well, that is all I can think to say today, so everyone have a great rest of your day and I hope to most of you tomorrow!
So, I just read my two Alternet articles today and I have to say, I love this website! It covers just about everything. One of my articles today was a review of MTV's version of a British television show (Skins) that debuted early last week. I thought it was interesting because it focused on America's love/hate relationship with sex, especially teenage sex. Sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of and everything that made Britain's Skins amazing, compelling and relateable has sadly been stripped out of MTV's version, boooo MTV!
Anyway... last week Shay showed me how to edit Your Voice Here and we were able to edit out the MLK marade and go through the footage we shot about anchor babies and how they are evil and must be stopped! Just kidding, its a serious topic for a serious problem that our government just doesn't seem able to address in a proper way.
Well, that is all I can think to say today, so everyone have a great rest of your day and I hope to most of you tomorrow!
MARK!
Hey everyone! We will welcome Mark tomorrow to start as our new intern. He will oversee the production tomorrow, so please help make him feel welcome.
-Lauren
-Lauren
Hey friends, I'm baaaaaaaaack
Hey everybody, I was out last week with strep but I'm fully recovered and ready to rock this week. Sounds like, in spite of my absence, everything went smoothly last week.
Tomorrow will be one of our last shoots with Adam, Dan and Shay around so we should all make sure we take full advantage of their intern-y wisdom and pummel them with as many questions as possible because before long they won't be around to run the show for us.
Sorry I've been slacking on the action calender (Adam). I promise to post events today.
Peace out!
Tomorrow will be one of our last shoots with Adam, Dan and Shay around so we should all make sure we take full advantage of their intern-y wisdom and pummel them with as many questions as possible because before long they won't be around to run the show for us.
Sorry I've been slacking on the action calender (Adam). I promise to post events today.
Peace out!
Friday, January 21, 2011
January 21
After getting lost going east on interstate 270 (trying to find gas, watching my dial creep closer and closer to that awful letter "E") I'm here on a lovely weathered Friday to finish the week. The next few hours I will be grinding out some event posting (so Adam doesn't have to worry about us anymore) for the Action Calendar. Although I'm not much help for the production of the Action Calendar, I enjoy looking through all the awesome activist events going on in the country.
Speaking of activism, our chaotic misadventure that took place on Monday at the M.L.K. "marade" was actually a successful turn out. Lauren saved the day by letting us into the locked building to get a new camera. Aaron, Dan and I reached Civic Center Park right before the ceremony was over and had a chance to talk to some really passionate groups of musicians, activists, students, doctors, etc. Everyone was really receptive and had so much to say about their causes! I had never really taken part of an event like that, and I am going to make an effort from now on to attend events with a camera at hand, because you never know what kind of monumental moments you may capture.
In other news, I attended a free screening of a fiction feature film last night called Bold Native, a film about animal liberation directed by Denis Henry Hennelly and Casey Suchan. I've never seen a narrative film about animal liberation, and it was a nice change from the raw, underground documentaries that are produced to convey the same message. Anyways, even if you aren't interested in the movement, it might be a film worth watching (or at least supporting). It won't be screened in any major theaters or submitted to any festivals, but you can read up on it or watch the trailer at boldnative.com.
Speaking of activism, our chaotic misadventure that took place on Monday at the M.L.K. "marade" was actually a successful turn out. Lauren saved the day by letting us into the locked building to get a new camera. Aaron, Dan and I reached Civic Center Park right before the ceremony was over and had a chance to talk to some really passionate groups of musicians, activists, students, doctors, etc. Everyone was really receptive and had so much to say about their causes! I had never really taken part of an event like that, and I am going to make an effort from now on to attend events with a camera at hand, because you never know what kind of monumental moments you may capture.
In other news, I attended a free screening of a fiction feature film last night called Bold Native, a film about animal liberation directed by Denis Henry Hennelly and Casey Suchan. I've never seen a narrative film about animal liberation, and it was a nice change from the raw, underground documentaries that are produced to convey the same message. Anyways, even if you aren't interested in the movement, it might be a film worth watching (or at least supporting). It won't be screened in any major theaters or submitted to any festivals, but you can read up on it or watch the trailer at boldnative.com.
How to be an Action Calendar Hero Pt II: Events
For anyone who hasn't seen the calendar promo: its a 60 second spot detailing the activist events and goings-on all around the country.
Ideally this would all be user generated, but usually I have to research events. This is my second favorite part next to production. It gives me a chance to put my favorite issues to the forefront. I swear there's some sort of runner's high for activists when they see their objectives go viral, which is what happens nearly every time an event hits the calendar.
I enjoy listening to Democracy Now! and hearing about the protest that I listed making a good ruckus. I don't enjoy hearing about the people I report on getting smacked down by the police, but that all comes with the territory.
My point is: This shit really works!
The best part is that anyone can contribute to the action calendar simply by shooting us an email a week or so in advance giving us all the who's what's and where's or going to the website, singing in and posting it yourselves. It's just that easy!
We can only report on three events a day, so check out the calendar at freespeech.org/calendar
What events we do report on go though a detailed technical process of entering the info into AfterEffects templates, timing and chroma keying. I'll spare you the lengthy details until the next part
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