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DIY Filming
I am nearly done filming thirteen videos hopefully for TV (Oregon Public Broadcasting.) I used two high end digital cameras, Final Cut Pro and a mac G5. What a huge undertaking. It has consumed all of my time for the last year. I initially had producers who were going to do this, but I had trouble with both of them. The first was a big local TV station who led me on for six months saying they wanted the project, because it had been tentatively approved by OPB. Then they changed CEOs and dumped it.
Then my brother wanted to film it. He has quite a bit of film equipment. He came down from Tacoma. The first day on the set, I told him we needed to sit down and hash out a royalty agreement, as I am a "starving artist." He immediately quipped, "Naw, don't worry about it! Let's just get it in the can! We can talk about that later!" Well, never talk about money later. After four weeks of filming, and four months of delays due to technical repairs, we had one week left of filming. A few days before he came down, he sent me an email with an invoice for $40,000 due prior to the release of any film!
You can imagine my response.
I was not discouraged. One of my mall walkers who daily peeks in on me and who was following the progress of my filming, asked me how the project was going. They wound up buying me a whole TV studio.
Now, I am done filming, done editing. But I am having trouble getting the film on to VCR format, as I am short of ram and storage. Compression issues and audio playback may also have something to do with it. It is hard to get 1/2 hour of video to play back on a computer without dropping a single frame.
So, I am patiently waiting for the wisdom and the resources to finish this project and submit it.
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