Later That Same Year

I've now shot somewhere over fifty hours of footage at the farm. The EX1 is 'tapeless' - that is, all video is recorded to a solid-state card. Each time I start/stop the camera, a new clip is created. They run anywhere from a few frames to over a half-hour. Most are 30 seconds to two minutes, except for interviews. To-date, I have something over four thousand clips. The log of the clips has grown to over 160 pages.

This past week, I met with a very good editor with credits going back to the seventies and as recent as this month. It was a very affirming experience - and also a very challenging one. Much more to do. Some things to catch up on. So far it's been a one-man band and because of that I've missed a lot, made a lot of technical mistakes, left the microphone off at times, failed to focus properly, set the camera at the wrong color temp., etc. In fact, I've made just about every mistake possible. I also need to do more work on getting to the true essence of the story.

But the project moves along. I'll try to publish some stills in the next few weeks.