Fair Use Free Speech

A video produced by the Center for Social Media about best practices of fair use for documentary filmmakers. They also produced a really great document called The Documentary Filmmaker's Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use you can download it and find other fair use resources at: www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse

First looks at illustration

Check it out...

Beginnings of animation...

just at the illustration stage but very cool.

Also I get to meet Ashley in person today, that is if I can stop emailing people about setting up the July fundraiser.

Fresh Eyes for Work Sample

Here is the rough work sample that Fiona and I have been working on. Please leave comments, send emails, tweets, Facebook comments ect. about what you think.

Especially if you have never seen the work before, thanks!

The only two caveats are obviously that the blue screen is not composited yet, and some of the audio is still from my laptop mic, so be forgiving on the audio quality. Other than that, rip it apart...

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Making the Assembly Edit

I am busy with putting together an assembly edit for my editor Fiona, before I go up to Seattle. Here is a little sample of the bluescreen part without any compositing so far.



I have also been doing much of the not so glamorous things such as sorting receipts and interim financial reports.

Media Database for Documentary Funding

I have found this website for documentary film funding called the Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. http://media.gfem.org/ There is one requirement for entering your projects into this database is that you ave at least one foundation or government funder.

I haven't fully investigated all of the aspects of the site yet, but I have started the profile for my film, and I poked around and found this other interesting project called The Salmon People. I liked it because it is also another personal journey film dealing with family relationships and cultural identity.

You can check out that film's profile here at The Salmon People

Narrative Report - last days Hawaii

The last few days in Hawaii were mostly spent shooting b-roll, but I was also able to meet up with Dr. Lau who was the psychologist who worked with my family until we left Hawaii. She did not want to be on camera, but we still had a really great talk and I think what she told me gave me more clarity for the story. She also connected me with the Child Protective Services caseworker who worked with my family before we left the island. I wasn't able to connect with her before I left, but I will most likely be going back in July, so I think that will work better anyhow since I was pretty burnt out on shooting by the end of the trip.

During the day before I left I shot one last interview with my Mom. I asked her about whether she felt that we had grown closer in this time. She had a lot of really good things to say about the whole experience. On the whole I really feel very good about everything that happened. I can't wait to start editing.

I touched bases with Ashley the animator/illustrator, and she said she will be able to get something to me by the end of next week as far as illustrations.