Microcinema Plan and Reflection

Since I didn't get a chance to post about a plan, this entry will be more of an afterthought of the planning of the microcinema and a reflection of the result. Me and Paul teamed up to run A/V for the festival. I kind of love electronics and Paul being an employee at Best Buy in the Geek Squad department, it seemed like a natural team-up. After the initial class period of planning, we decided to go scout the location at the Silva compound. We were met with the art department and locations team. Cori was supposed to meet us too, but with her family obligations, I told her I'd cover her as much as possible and catch up her up to speed later that night. I drew an overhead layout of the backyard and took about a dozen photos. I suggested several layout plans and other location notes. The next day, I met with Andre and picked up the equipment. I took it home and hooked everything up and tested it all to make sure everything worked and to see if we were missing any cables or anything. Only thing left to do was to wait on programming to give me the order of the films. I should've hounded them more because I didn't get all of them films until the day of the microcinema. It's not their fault, the people that didn't their films on time are to blame.

We finally got all the films and my intention was to create one video file of everyone's films in the order they were to be played. Well, the last video we got in was about an 2 hours before the screening was to start, and unfortunately it takes more than 2 hours to render an 65 minute video file. But we were able to create a playlist in VLC in the order of the program. It was hot, it was itchy, and it was sweaty. But by the time the sun went down and my skin was saturated in bug juice, I felt better and cooled off. I actually had alot of fun and was entertained by all of our films.