Today I had a meeting with my adviser Will Z. He gave a bunch of good hints. I'm about to enter a little break session, since my girlfriend and I are headed to Alabama for spring break on Friday, by way of friends in Charleston and Atlanta. I am getting cracking on the paper that I have to write for my B. Phil. degree along with the movie.
In other news, I got an interview with someone at the Brookings Institute. Pretty excited about that. Now, if I could just get one more D.C. interview, I won't feel weird driving down there.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Friday
I bought a bunch of after effects scripts yesterday. They are awesome. I paid $70, but that's not that bad considering how much I get out of them. I bought them at aescripts.com.
The most recent sequence is coming along well. I'm trying to incorporate more 3d elements, since everyone seems to like it a lot when the camera moves around. I'll have it posted on Monday.
My computer programmer roommate Victor was like, "Why didn't you just ask me to script these things for you?" But certainty and time are important. If I'd used him, I would have had to describe in detail what I wanted, and maybe I don't really know what I want in advance. I would have had to wait until his schedule permitted. And then there would be uncertainty about whether they worked and how well. Inevitably something goes wrong.
The most recent sequence is coming along well. I'm trying to incorporate more 3d elements, since everyone seems to like it a lot when the camera moves around. I'll have it posted on Monday.
My computer programmer roommate Victor was like, "Why didn't you just ask me to script these things for you?" But certainty and time are important. If I'd used him, I would have had to describe in detail what I wanted, and maybe I don't really know what I want in advance. I would have had to wait until his schedule permitted. And then there would be uncertainty about whether they worked and how well. Inevitably something goes wrong.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
D.C. phone home
The people in Washington, DC are not getting back to me. It's pretty depressing. I feel like I am stalking the entire transport expertise community of our nation's capitol. There's always tomorrow.
Reasons people are not getting back to me:
D.C. supplies of Five Hour Energy Drink are critically low.
Revenge for the Pens kicking The Caps out of the playoffs.
Everyone in D.C. afraid to admit they live in D.C., for fear of being labeled a "beltway insider."
Lewis Lehe's Place is also the name of an infamous D.C. leather bar.
President Obama planning his own documentary about congestion pricing and has issued a gag order on the subject.
In other news, I wrote a bunch of narration today and started planning the next segment, which includes video skits. It will be finished by next Sunday.
Reasons people are not getting back to me:
D.C. supplies of Five Hour Energy Drink are critically low.
Revenge for the Pens kicking The Caps out of the playoffs.
Everyone in D.C. afraid to admit they live in D.C., for fear of being labeled a "beltway insider."
Lewis Lehe's Place is also the name of an infamous D.C. leather bar.
President Obama planning his own documentary about congestion pricing and has issued a gag order on the subject.
In other news, I wrote a bunch of narration today and started planning the next segment, which includes video skits. It will be finished by next Sunday.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Goals for this week
Get interviews in D.C. for real this time.
Finish an overall outline of the movie.
Write narration and work plan for the next section.
Start working on next animation.
Finish an overall outline of the movie.
Write narration and work plan for the next section.
Start working on next animation.
New draft of engineer's explanation
What causes congestion? Engineer's perspective. Draft 2 from Lewis on Vimeo.
Some of the stock footage I acquired didn't work, so I used the free sample. I will get that worked out in the future. Also, teh audio is a little weird.
The biggest thing is that there need to be more visual elements in the piece. Like trees moving, different types of cars, different colors of cars, etc.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Frustrated
Animating the engineer's explanation is taking forever, and it's not really looking as good as I'd hoped. I can jazz it up, but again that's more time. Maybe future progress will be quicker, because now I am a lot better at recording audio and programming expressions. I hope so. I will have the second draft of the engineer's explanation up by tomorrow night, so help me DOT (department of transportation).
In other news, I'm not having any success getting interviews in Washington, DC. with economists or anyone. I am going to try the people at the new HOT lanes project. Maybe they will be more helpful. The trouble is that everyone in DC, vs. Los Angeles, seems to really require that the project is "official" somehow. I don't know how to get a stamp of authenticity, because I'm not associated with anything big. Oh well. If I just keep making cool animations to show people, and keep emailing, then it will succeed.
In other news, I'm not having any success getting interviews in Washington, DC. with economists or anyone. I am going to try the people at the new HOT lanes project. Maybe they will be more helpful. The trouble is that everyone in DC, vs. Los Angeles, seems to really require that the project is "official" somehow. I don't know how to get a stamp of authenticity, because I'm not associated with anything big. Oh well. If I just keep making cool animations to show people, and keep emailing, then it will succeed.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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