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Got the giant hard drive today. Installing it into the G5 (alongside the HD it already had) was a breeze. Am hwarfing all the current Gameshelf footage from earlier this month onto hard disk right now... it's too bad it can only do it at 1x speed, meaning that it will take several hours to transfer, with me manually swapping tapes every hour. But it will be so worth it, I think.

I wonder what the current state of hard-drive-using camcorders is. I am assuming they exist. I'd certainly favor using one over MiniDV.



Somewhat relatedly, did something fun last night: helped crew a debate in the SCAT studio between the Democratic candidates for the 2nd Middlesex district state senate race. You Somervudlians can catch it on Channel 3 at 7pm on any Wednesday in August (except for the 31st, I'm assuming, since that's a day after the election in question). When you see the camera trained on Casey or Callahan, that was my masterful handiwork, ha ha. (Another camera was on Jehlen and Mackey, and a third on the moderator/audience.)

I wasn't really paying attention to what they were saying (since I was paying more attention to what I was doing), but two big topics I noticed were gay marriage and T expansions into Somerville. I'm interested in hearing about that latter topic in particular, so I'll be tuning in myself.

It'll also be shown on Medford, Winchester and Woburn local access, but I dunno when. "Check your local listings." Hm, if I remember I'll post something about it to [livejournal.com profile] davis_square next week.



Screwing around with Apple hardware? Being part of the media coverage for a local political event? It's like 1996 all over again for me...
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I'd like to do another Gameshelf shoot the first weekend after July 4. I would prefer Saturday the 9th, but am flexible enough to do Sunday or Friday instead, if interested people are insistent on one of those days instead. Either way I'd prefer evening... I'm thinking of blocking out 6-11pm for this.

The location would be my dining room, again; it worked out pretty well last time. (But see my mumblings under the <hr>.) The subjects would include "Shadows over Camelot", assuming I can get my hands on a copy by then, and some other game if there is time left when we're done with that.

Ideally I'd like to get between four and six or so of you hairy mutants to help with this. I need both talent -- actual game players who are willing to take direction from me (while the stuff is largely candid, I might ask things like "Could you show that move again, and explain exactly what you're doing?") -- and camera help. I theorize that one cameraperson might be enough (even though there will be two cameras), but if two people are willing to do camera, and we play two different games, the role could be swapped out midshoot.

Reply to this post or contact me directly if you're interested in helping, or have any questions. If you are interested, let me know which role (or both) you'd like to help with.



The only problem with my dining room (and any other room of my apartment) is the windows, which look just awful when the sun's up but the camera's aperture is expecting indoor lighting. Some ways around this:

* Wait until sunset to shoot. But this time of year, that means waiting until late at night.
* Use the SCAT studio. I will look into this option.
* Have someone volunteer a space they control that would work well as a controlled-lighting studio, and they don't mind being invaded by the talent and crew for the duration of the shoot.
* Someone who knows more about videography than I do tells me about something obvious I am overlooking.

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