CongoCast News Blog » Making the Film http://congocast.org Updates and links to relevant news items about the DRC Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:03:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Where do I start?!? http://congocast.org/blog/2010/02/where-do-i-start http://congocast.org/blog/2010/02/where-do-i-start#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:58:09 +0000 Evan http://congocast.org/?p=241 So today, I’m going back through the 17 episodes we made of the Congocast podcast over the last three years to begin the process of cutting it down into a rough cut for a film. The hardest part about this is figuring out where to start! Right now when you back the 17 episodes we have up end to end the entire video piece is about 2 hours and 24 minutes in length!

The first step is to just start pulling things out and see what is left and whether it makes sense! I have an additional 60 hours of footage from last years trip waiting in the wings – but I thought to get the process rolling again I could start by editing something I’m more familiar with.

I’ll continue updating the congocast.org site as I get more into the process of turning this crazy project into a film! So check in again soon as I will be using this blog to update you on things that are happening in the Congo activist community and the progress I am making in cutting the film together!

- Evan

]]> http://congocast.org/blog/2010/02/where-do-i-start/feed 0 Back in the saddle! http://congocast.org/blog/2010/02/back-in-the-saddle http://congocast.org/blog/2010/02/back-in-the-saddle#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:15:02 +0000 Evan http://congocast.org/?p=233 Well, it has been quite a bit of time since I’ve been at work on the Congocast.org project! Sorry for long wait!

Editing on the Congocast project has restarted. Thanks to the help of some awesome volunteers this past fall, we have gotten all of our footage from our trip last year into the computer (it was giving us quite a bit of trouble). It is ready now to be edited, so we will keep you updated as the process of doing post production unfolds. To start, I’m currently taking all 17 episodes and putting them together in a single video project to see what happens. Right now the whole thing is 2 hours and 24 minutes long!

FCP Timeline with all 17 Congocast.org episodes on it!
(Here is a shot of the what the video timeline looks like with that much footage on it.)

So needless to say, cutting this video into a longer format project is going to be some work – not to mention adding in the new footage that we shot last year to wrap the whole thing up! I’ll check in again soon as we start to make progress!

- Evan

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