[Imc-dnc-discuss] Fwd: a favor and some answers about our work

[Svea Eppler]

--- tiffany dumont <tangle7 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: tiffany dumont <tangle7 at yahoo.com>
> To: boston-video at lists.indymedia.org,
> imc-boston at lists.indymedia.org
> CC:  Subject: [Boston-video] a favor and some
answers
> about our work
> 
> greetins video activists!
> 
> Thanks everybody who has been working hard over at
> the
> CCTV space and in the streets!
> 
> And anyone who is doing PRINT or AUDIO and wants to
> collaborate with a video person, during interviews
> for > example, please send us a word.. Then we can
get
> more > quality interviews to have the visual
documentation
> included to be put on our show.
> 
> For folks who dont know:
> We have a 20 min. slot for cambridge community
> access every day during the convention and we have
been
> collaborating on works the past 2 days.
> Things have been a little crazy over there, so i
> just thought we might want to clarify what's going
on... 
> 
> 
> We have a deadline at 12am to give our finished
> piece to cctv.. We have been told we can have a
little
> leeway with that, but the past 2 nights we haven't
> finished the piece till the sun was rising and this
> means we're keeping the cctv coordinator up to
> kindly> include us in their segments they donated to
us.
> While some of this had to do with technical problems
> with the equipment that cctv said we had access to,
> it> was close to impossible to have anything done by
> midnight.

> Now we have a better idea for the space's
> capabilities > and who we're working with, so
hopefuly things will> run smoother in the next few
days.  
> We have a small editing space and it became very
> cramped with just 4 people and 2 systems to work on
> and we have the hallway space with 2 computers, one
> with final cut, and another with imovie.   There was
> 3> of us out there. So we were collecting footage
from
> all over the place under tight time pressures and
> minor technical issues.    It was helpful to have
> people bringing in their own equipment, like the
> cameras and laptop with ample space, where we ended
> up> editing the final piece together on  last night.
 
> We had some expert final cutters come in at 10pm who
> essentially saved us with their zippy editing and
> kind collaborative vibes.  We all got to know each
other
> very quickly and managed to produce something out of
> all the pressure.
> 
> Please bring food and water and badges.
> 
> We also noticed a lot of us had similar footage and
> because we all didnt know each other pre-march we 
> didnt realize we were working on top of each other.
> 
> I'm suggesting we send ideas out to this list for
> segments pre-segmenting, or just where we think we
> might be shooting video.
> 
> If people shoot stuff and arent editing but want
> their video to be part of the show, we need good
logging
> notes that include titles for tapes, beginning and
> ending timecodes and descriptions of what it is..
> And> please be very selective in this process as we
are
> getting tons of video and only have 20 min.  for a
> show.  It would even be cool if these people want to
> stick around for a bit to see what everyone else is
> working on and how their video might work into the
> content.
> 
> People can leave tapes at cctv OR at the convergence
> space at the community church.. We will make a box
> for> the space where tapes can be dropped off and we
> should> have an imc volunteer let us know if there
are tapes> that need to be sent over if they cant get
them over
> themselves.
> 
> We should maybe enable the dispatch list, if we find
> something especially interesting that isnt part of
> the> known schedule.
> 
> It would be nice to get more than the less typical
> protest footage pieces into our 20 min. show.
> 
> ie:  I want to do a longer segment on the Eyes Wide
> Open exhibit and want to do some personal interviews
> but i dont have good audio on my camera and am
> looking> for a camera to use my mic with.  So if
anyone wants> to help me, please send me word!!
> 
> Ok ok.. That's all for now.  If anyone wants to add
> to> this please do.

> paz-tiffa
> 
> 
> 
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