My Weekend Future is Transcriptions

It occurred to me a few days ago that while I'm sitting around waiting for the next shoot (last weekend in July) I could still do work on the 4 interviews I currently have "in the can." B/c editing that stuff for the trailer is one thing; editing it for the film is a totally different thing! Then I remembered how challenging it was to keep finding the footage/sound bites I liked in order to stick them into the trailer. I mean, by then I had watched the 3 DVD's so many times that I pretty much knew where they were but there were a few times while editing with my dad when I was like, "Ok, I thought s/he talked about that one part after they talked about this other part" and I was wrong! So I had to do a little hunting at times, which slowed the editing process down.

So after reading Robert Rodriguez's book and how he did all this syncing up stuff by hand (for various reasons he shot El Mariachi completely without sound!!! Later he just taped the actors' dialogue into a tape recorder and then had to sync it all up to the video so it matched!!!) and then realizing that at least he had a SCRIPT he could follow, and realizing that I do not have the benefit of having a script b/c it's a DOCUMENTARY, it hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks that I would probably be doing myself a huge favor for later editing of the film by completely transcribing the 3 DVD's. Whoa! That's a big project!!! But I better get started on it. I think that's what I'll focus on this weekend. Hopefully I'll get it all done in one day, i.e., tomorrow b/c #1. I type really fucking fast and #2. As stated before I already am intimately familiar with the DVD's and the interviews. I already got a head start by just creating 4 different Word doc's with the interview questions (they were all pretty much asked the same questions) and getting those in order for each person. And I already typed the answers to the questions that I know by heart from making the trailer. I spoke to Bean about this who confirmed he always does his interview/program transcription too and reminded me it don't have to be word for exact word!

So tomorrow my day with the baby will consist of getting her signed up for the Summer Reading Program at the library, maybe doing some grocery shopping, then getting us home so I can work on the transcription project! Sunday is Father's Day of course, so naturally we'll be concentrating on S that day, taking him out to eat, seeing a movie, whatever he wants to do. BTW he and I had a marriage counseling session Weds. night (first time since March! Just b/c we've been so damn busy) and it went well. We still have some issues to work out and we need to practice our "dialoguing" technique according to our therapist. Then again, who doesn't need to practice that, ha! Anyway, she is, as always, very helpful.

Monday: meeting with the Chief to hopefully finalize our fiscal sponsorship arrangement, meaning then I can FINALLY publicize the Reserves film website and get my Facebook page going!!! They are up and ready, I just need to pull the trigger! I need to send out some more press releases as well. It occurred to me when I was at the academy the other night that it wouldn't hurt to send them to the many law enforcement magazines as well.