Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Sometimes You Roll With the Punches

Whatever that means...The trailer that we were working on never got shown anyway. So after 48 straight hours of hard work, well, our work was in vain. And added to that, I have no way of cutting the HD footage, because I don't have access to a system that can handle it, nor do I have a deck to digitize the tapes, so for now I'm moving on.

Just a recap:
Ask various people for money totalling $2,300 to go to Brazil.
Going to various meetings for months planning for the trip.
Asking friends for cameras, tripods, cases, microphones, various equipment.
Taking on $7,000 liability for their equipment.
Going to Brazil, working butt off, getting sick, getting to see the Amazon.
Coming back after 24 hours of flying and 4 flights.
Asking a friend to edit the footage into a trailer over night.
48 straight hours of work...
Then the video doesn't get shown.

*sigh* Welcome to filmmaking.

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