Last Night a Slot Car Saved My Life

I spent a few solid hours yesterday in Kensington working on my next short doc project. I ended up having a lot of trouble trying to monitor my audio levels, compose my shot, and make sure everything was exposed correctly at the same time. I guess one-man crewing takes practice, and hopefully I’m getting better at this. Two of my subjects, an old married Brooklyn couple, both of whom are natives of the borough, made for some interesting footage (at least I hope they did). Step two is capturing the footage and figuring out what’s missing so I can go back for a reshoot. Generally my projects have stalled at this step, languishing in the purgatory that digital video exists in before it is moved to my hard drive and then into Final Cut. But hopefully I can push through my natural tendencies toward procrastination and get some editing started this week.

On the playlist today is the Philip Glass-composed score of Dracula–performed by the Kronos Quartet–which I just picked up from the library on Friday. That guy is on some total other shit.