I think I’m going to post every two days or so from now on, depending on what happened that day…because I haven’t had as much to talk about as before. Monday was a pretty boring day overall, nothing to report really. I was at home all day and that’s pretty much it, lol. I did however buy that Intensity Pro card I was talking about so I was glad to make that purchase. It arrived today when I woke up this morning. It took forever to put in as the thumb screws on my macpro were super tight and no screwdrivers I had could fit into the spot I needed to get to. Needle-Nose Pliers were the only way to get them loose, and after that it was a snap. I got everything hooked up and opened Final Cut Pro. Instantly I was watching Standing Firm on a 50in Plasma in all it’s 1080HD glory! It looks fantastic throughout, with some things I’m not too wild about but for shooting on a sub-$4000 HD camera, it does one heck of a job!
I also output to my Production Monitor which showed me the color very accurately so that was nice. I’ll be color correcting to that when the time comes. I edited a bit of the film which had me cutting out another minute or so. Not like a section of the film but small pieces of scenes that added up to that minute. I’ll be cutting the film pretty close to the 81 minute mark I think. There are junk lines and things that aren’t needed or repeated things within a scene that can be chopped, just overall tightening. Some of the pacing is as good as it’ll get with what I have to work with, but I’m happy overall with most of the scenes. Some of them I think will really hit people hard. It’s pretty remarkable how well the emotional and intense scenes of the film turned out, and I find those to be the strongest (which is how it should be). Everyone did a good job with what they had to work with, and having me around to Direct while I was trying to do a lot of other things in my head. As a team we pulled it off, I’m by no means the golden ticket to the films quality…not by far!
One thing I forgot to mention was on Monday as I plugged my phone into the charger it rang, so I picked it up and it was a lady from The Chapel (where I go to Vintage) responding to my email to their media guy about a possible job or something. We setup a meeting for Wed @ 2pm…so that was cool. I’m writing this on a tuesday night so tomorrow is the day. I’m interested to see what they have to say. I gave them the new trailer for the film, a resume, links to my website which has all my web/graphics work on it, etc. Even if the offer was for something really great, I won’t say yes right away. It means big changes for me I think. One of them is moving to a new church, away from NFBC. The next, moving… I have a room with a friend 5 minutes from The Chapel if I want it and he’s a good friend. That brings in some other advantages/disadvantages with it as well. There are other things but I won’t mention those for now, we’ll wait.
I’m just waiting to see what God wants me to do. I think he took me out of WNY to teach me a few things and brought me back to keep me here for some reason. I think I’m not going anywhere…I just feel pretty confident in that assumption. We’ll see what he wants me to do, but for right now I’m just treading the waters very slowly and will take everything into very careful consideration before making a move.
Vintage was great tonight as well, nice to see everyone I know, hear some good preaching, worship a bit, and eat at Applebees as usual 
Tomorrow will be an interesting day, as much as I’m glad to have the interview, I’m totally clueless as to what to expect. Pray for me!
