I obviously haven’t updated this in quite awhile. Needless to say, my expectations of making weekly videos during the summer fell far from short. After finally landing a job following two months of unemployment I suddenly realized that school starts in a month…and now in a little over a week…great! So far I’m registered for 4 film production classes which is absolute overkill. I’m contemplating the idea of dropping one but I’m still undecided.

Well, I never did finish up that video with Phong in it. It’s still in the works and likely will be for awhile until I can get the shots I need.

In the meantime, here’s the first movie I made for my basic 16mm film class during last semester that I never posted:

If the business majors land in the top 3 in the nation (more youtube views will better their chances), they will be flown out to Washington D.C. to present their campaign…which means more notice for my videos and, likewise more notice for Cassanova. So please spread this around!

In terms of editing, it took the usual 40 hours but it was underlined by the fact that many of my finals were next week. Overall, I’m happy with it considering the amount of time I had to work with. Check it:

Download Finger Lickin’ Good in .wmv format
Download Finger Lickin’ Good in .mp4 format (iPod friendly)

I know, I know…took me long enough, right? I think I spent roughly 40 hours editing this. Those of you that used to play Goldeneye on the N64 back in the day are going to love this:

Download GoldenPhong in .wmv format
Download GoldenPhong in .mov format

As you can see, we’re posting our videos on youtube now so as to reach out to a wider audience and get our name out there. But, so as to remain loyal to all you hardcore fans, I’ll still post links so you can download both .wmv and .mov versions of the videos =).

The Goldeneye video is taking a lot longer than I thought. I edited for around 12 hours on Sunday and it’s only about half way done. I should have it done by Wednesday. Sorry for the delay…but trust me when I say that the wait will be worth it.

This week has been rough in terms of realizing the overwhelming amount of work I’ll have to do for school in the next few weeks. I suppose if I weren’t taking a week off from putting videos on here that that would have driven me insane by now. Simply, this time off is much needed.

Anyways, yeah, the news on the hard drive: it’s shot. It makes that “clicking noise of death” and shows no sign of working anytime soon, even after I performed the infamous freezer trick. Fortunately, I still have the Goldeneye video on my tape so I’ll just have to re-upload it and start all over again.

I purchased a replacement external hard drive this week called “Mybook.”

It’s 1 terabyte (4x the amount I had on my previous drive, I figured if I was going to buy a new drive that I might as well upgrade while I’m at it). It’s too bad my laptop sucks for editing but it’ll have to suffice until I upgrade to a Mac.

As for the “Goldeneye Project”, mark your calendars for Monday…that is, unless I drop this hard drive too…

In the midst of editing the dubbed “Goldeneye Project” my hard drive took a dive. Rather, I tripped on one of the cables and the drive fell to the ground. Initially, it stopped working but after a few restarts I got the thing kickin’ again.

However, while I was at home the drive got knocked down once again. Now it makes some strange clicking sound every time it’s on. My laptop won’t bring up the files on the drive either which isn’t so great considering that I have all my video files on there.

…so much for having that video done by Monday.

Looks like I’ll be taking a week or so off to get a new hard drive and attempt to recover those files.