Now, where were we?

Okay, I love having ALL my S & B stuff on one giant (but so small!) hard drive, instead of spread out over no fewer than FOUR drives.  And now everything is a .mov file, as well, for added, well, for functionality.

My back is not great.  6-12-hour editing sessions are not on the menu yet.  Considering pulling your latissimus dorsi muscle?  Do not.  No, don't argue, just >do not< do it.  I mean, if it's a Hobson's choice between that and _breaking_ your back well, you know, context is everything, but I must say, this really sucks -- not least because it has meant I can't play tennis. 

Anyway -- Three pieces of updatey news:

1.  I mentioned a while back that cool Katelyn Whitehead, a former student, was going to be helping me put together the Montage of Humanity.  She has given me a first draft for comment, including a really neat shot of an older guy playing cards, and although it's still a ways from completion, there has been a little movement there.  Unfortunately, she is pretty busy and I'm not sure how fast that will go now.  I may end up taking it back from her.  We shall see.

2.  I have enlisted the help of a Nother former student, as well:  this joe's name is, er, Joe Mischo (one has former students in order to make them work for one -- sort of like why farmers have lots of kids).  He is giving a go at (to? with?) editing of Scene 45, because I was having trouble refraining from throwing the computer across the room when I would try to do this scene.  I splurged TWENTY-SEVEN WHOLE DOLLARS on six months of "Media Fire" at the "pro" level so that we could exchange some video files online (Drop Box is just too small) (although it didn't occur to me until after I'd paid for Media Fire to see if DB had a better paid version -- whatever).  Didn't buy many groceries that week. 

What?  Yes, I'm still unemployed.  Getting a little panicked about it, actually, but let's ignore that for the moment.

3.  What am I doing?  Well, with the time that I can sit and edit and fend off the no-job anxiety, I have begun to pull together

a trailer.

That's right:  a trailer.  I watched a bunch of indie trailers and found that they almost all use VO or title cards to explain what the hell is going on, since there's so little clear sound-bitey action, but I don't wantto use a VO, so I'm not doing that.  I haven't quite decided about the title card thing.  At the moment I am structuring it around the piano room daydream that Larry has, in which Marissa says,

"Do you remember that game?... How do you remember it?"

And then Larry says,

"How do you remember it?"

And she answers,

"I asked you first."

I'm intercutting some stuff in there.  So far, it's not amazing, but it's early.

I will keep you posted!!

I wonder if anyone's actually going to read this.... oh, well, as ever!

Love and perseverance,
Rachel

Dance! Dance! Dance!

I believe the technical problems have been FIXED!!!!

I can't say much more right now, because I hurt my back and really shouldn't be sitting up, but I wanted to NOTE IT and say, 

Of course, the "no sitting" rule means "no editing," as well -- but hopefully only for another week. 

'Til then...