What I've Been Doing This Week

So I spent my first 30-or-so hours editing together a set of DVD menus. It was as depressing as you'd expect, my clicking a mouse for nine hours per day while down Conference Drive skits were being planned and decorations painted.

I needed some dummy footage to use in place of what will become the chapters and I also needed some friends, so I pulled in tape of some of my favorite people and let you guys keep me company while I occasionally cursed my 97-inch monitor.

Excepting the goofy MH logos and crappy YouTube quality, I'm genuinely conviced this is pro-level work. Few commercial DVDs you watch feature the kind of chapter-menu-to-chapter-menu transitions I worked up here. I'm learning a lot.

Then I filmed, and am right now in the process of editing, the Day Camp Rules Video. Because I'm busy with other MH video work, I only had a day to film and a day to edit, which is about half of what I usually allot the process. I got there with this slick Canon camera and a 35-pound tripod and everyone was already on the trail waiting for their intros. Nice work, Who. I'm not sure yet where it ranks in the current four-year box set of Rules Videos, but it can handle itself in a barfight with any of them. At the very least, we utilized the Day Camp Pyrotechnics Team for the first time ever. (See below.) I'll post a link to the YouTube video when it's finished.

Dan

Camp ain't camp.

[UPDATE 4:47PM: This one time I had to scrap three hours of work because my bosses wanted to take it in another direction. So that's a drag but right now I'm crushing my way to a finish on a sharp video and having a blast. Helps that no one else is around but Juelz Santana maybe. Watch it for it sometime tonight.]

[UPDATE THE NEXT DAY: Finished the rules video last night. It's pretty good and pretty scary. I won't be caught anywhere near the premiere. Here's the YouTube link.]