Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Spinning Wheels . . .

So we're shooting this video for camp (that's coming up in 2 weeks) and it seemed like it should be easy. Have you ever seen those new Mac commercials with the one guy who represents a Mac and the other guy who represents a PC. Well, we're spoofing that with one guy representing NTS Camp ("Never the Same) and some nerdy guy representing another camp (like math camp or chemistry camp, etc). Very simple commercials, but it requires a solid white background and solid white floor.

We get to the church to shoot this thing and spend literally five hours spinning our wheels. We could not get the background and flooring right. To be honest it looked really ghetto (not to bring race issues into this) and cheap. We want it to look exactly like the Mac commercials. So after setting up and tearing down set after set, sifting through idea after idea we finally called it a night, having not taken even a frame of video.

I obviously went to bed last night feeling like a failure, feeling like I would never be able to pull this one off and then my boss would be ticked at me (he had already yelled at me earlier that day for the first time). Ahhh! It was such a good idea too!

This morning I have the brilliant idea of checking a photography studio to see if they have what we would need. "Oh that will never work, Davey. We'll never get into a studio."

I left the studio this morning feeling like an accomplished, triumphant, valient hero. We have a time slot tomorrow from 12-3 in the studio to shoot it and the guy offered to help with lighting techniques. HALLELUJAH!! (don't know if that's spelled right; sorry, Handel).

It's amazing what you can get if you just check. Granted, we had the idea of shooting it in a studio right off the bat but we dismissed it immediately, thinking it would be impossible. It would have saved us a lot of time, hastle, and frustration had we just checked on that to begin with.

Lesson learned: Dream big, make connections, and try, try, try! You never know what could come out of it if you strive for excellence!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great idea! Just ask and try - you never know who or what might be available. Great lessons!
I miss you! Can't wait to see ya! I'm so totally proud of you!

Love, Mom

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