We’re in the initial stages of the final phases of putting our kit together. Today I’ll be fitting the cameras into cases and figuring out what goes where and how it’ll get there. We will need to configure three basic kits:
Travel: How We Get All The Stuff Over There
Trek: What We Carry On The Long [...]
Using iMovie the other day to try to work on a .mov file (which is Apple’s/Quicktime’s native file format if I’m not mistaken), when I got this error message:
I’m thinking if anyone ought to know it, it’d be Apple. Hmm.
I kind of wanted to title this ‘How a Barefoot Workshop in the Mississippi Delta Saved My Marriage’ for dramatic effect. But it wouldn’t be accurate. Scott and I get on really well. In fact, we are pretty much crazy about each other and are super proud of how we live it up when it [...]
These two priorities are on different, but intersecting paths. We need to find the intersection.
Simplicity: By this I mean the tools: The gear. The setups. The shots. The language. The editing.
We feel drawn to simple storytelling. Plainspoken pictures. Simple editing. We want (and need, $$wise) to develop and use a simple kit of gear. Compact, [...]
This blog is about our process, as we learn to use our tools better to tell stories better.
It’s a lot of work, just managing the tools of multimedia journalism. If we don’t get our chops with the gear here, now, before we get in the field, we won’t have any brainpower left over to actually [...]
