Done writting!...?

The truth is I'm always rewriting my videos right up until I deliver them to the client, BUT this week I've finally arrived at the point where I feel like I've gathered enough information and organized it into something of a cohesive outline and so next week we're off to Tenwek to start SHOOTING!!! I really love shooting, the power of going to places and seeing what it's like and preserving that very moment in time. It's so empowering. There's also the joy of meeting people and learning all kinds of things about them, there's really nothing like shooting a video/film.

So I guess we're starting with the end this week. Nothing like a good non-linear blog post, but let's jump back now and see what's been up this past week.

It was actually monday evening where I received a few emails that helped me fill in the last gap in my timeline. As I added those last few details I realized that I could basically finish my outline on Tuesday and then I would be ready to make up a list of interview questions and people to talk to. So Tuesday I sent an email to Tenwek's CEO to see if filming would work out for next week. In the mean time John and I made up our plans for traveling to Tenwek and what we'll each be doing in the meantime. John is at a crusade this weekend and then will be at the graduation ceremony for a Pastors School in Kaboson, about 2+ hours on the other side of Tenwek. I in the meantime have been working to compile a list of intervews and have been sending a few emails to find out when people are available.

Through out the rest of the week John and I have also been continuing to work on scanning more slides, negatives, and photos.

My evenings have also been rather interesting, last Friday our field directors, the Vanderhoofs, brought me an up-grade for my video editing soft ware. I had ordered this about a month ago so I was very happy to finally receive it. As excited as I was to get the software I was a little uneasy about installing something new right before editing a major project like this Tenwek video. With the software I also got a training DVD to help me learn to use it better. I was very excited to see that the DVD had a chapter highlighting the advantages of the new program over the old one and at the same time showed me that the interfaces are generally the same. So in the past couple days I've been carefully proceeding with the necessary steps to replace the software on my computer. I think it's almost all ready to go so on Saturday I should be able to start working through the training DVD!

As I've typed it out this last week looks pretty short and yet full of exciting developments, I guess that's about how it felt too. And now, since I put the end at the beginning, I don't know how to end so I'll just stop.

God Bless,

Jonny