Thursday, July 24

OK, today is the second to last day of the program. I’m pretty sure you people have been wondering what has been up with the blogs? Well, the real Devon is back. I had an assistant (Jill) helping me type whatever I said, with her input. Ok, well, let’s see, I just finished editing my trailer, I have to convert it into a QuickTime file so they can add into the DVD. Man I felt so sorry for Malachi, not! Karma played back on him, he lost all his information for the DVD on the Mac. And now his “blue prints” for the DVD are missing too. He can’t find his note pad with all his stuff on it. I think he got what he deserved. Ok now I’m getting criticism from Jasmine & Lofton about my previous blogs. I knew this was going happen. Just to justify, I was talking to Jill and she typed all of that,. So now I’m going to type my own, and yes XBOX sucks, but Microsoft makes better computers. So if you have a problem with what I put on the blog, it is my own opinion, blogs are free for me to write off the top of my head and I can say almost what I want. They weren’t in my taste but I had to post something up, so like 'whatever' - haters of my art! I also had to go into the studio and record a Q&A with the writer LaTonya Sampson. There was a pesky fly flying in & out of the shot. Durrell, Jasmine, me & Jamal had to edit the interview. Durrell didn’t want to do anything with it and Jamal was just all around the room. I couldn’t get into the groove today with the editing, so I saved my work so I can work on it tomorrow. So that’s all. Get ready 2 see what I’m about to say tomorrow on the last day! - Devon

On-time blog for Wednesday 7-23

July 23, 2008 Today moved a little bit faster than it has been for the past couple of days. I finished my trailer, but Malachai lost the DVD information. After I finished, Badesch made me and Durrell wrap up cables. A lot of people went over to the studio to make a fake talk show to use as background for a scene in the movie. They had a lot of fun. John and Lizzy came in today to see the rough cut of the movie. I have been up this morning since 2:41AM because I got hot in my room and I needed to charge my mp3 player and didn’t go back to bed. I was using the computer checking all of my birthday comments on tagged. I received about 60 comments and 100 messages. I did not have a birthday party, but yet my mom and grandmother cooked a lot of food for me. We had turkey, macaroni and cheese, greens, sweet potatoes, dressing, and ham. I ate two full plates of food, and then I was so full I practically couldn’t get up from the table. I also had a birthday cake! It was vanilla and I had one slice and two scoops of chocolate vanilla swirl ice cream. This morning for breakfast I had another slice of cake and some hot tamales, which Jill stole from me all day. Everyone else did too! All in all, being 16 feels pretty sweet, but yet the same. It was also a letdown because I didn’t get a play station 3… but hopefully I’ll buy it next week. I have to pay my mom half the cost of the play station 3 and she’ll pay the other half. I could really go for playing some basketball right now, but the gym is closed and my basketball is going flat. It looks like I’ll have to go shopping with the birthday money I got (and work money, too)! Xbox sucks. PS: Sony for life!!!

Blog done on time but Mr. B put it up late

Today is a glorious day, besides it being Tuesday. Today is my birthday! I’m not doing anything, though, except sitting here at work. The work lately is still going rather slowly because all that’s really left to do is edit the doc and the film and soundtrack. So, there’s not too much to say. Uh oh, something bad happened to Durrell today. He was making fliers in a complicated format that Mr. Badesch had to set up when he accidentally exited the program without saving! Now he has to start all over. There isn’t enough time left today, though, so he has to do the whole thing tomorrow. That’s too bad for him. K, I’m out. Will update tomorrow. – Devon

Another late blog from Devon for 7-21

Greetings and grand salutations! Today at the "Hush" production site everything moved very slowly. In fact, it’s going to be slow for some of us until the end of the week. I started off making a trailer for the movie until Badesch kicked me off the computer. Since then, I’ve been updating the blog. Tomorrow is my birthday! I will be 16. So old! I’m not going to have a party, though. I may go to Wisconsin this weekend. Hopefully I’ll get a car, or a PS3. Everybody has been on the computers working hard, except me. I will be expecting to eat something after work. Did you see WWE last night? Adam Copeland sucks, Paul Michael Levesque is better. Jill played Xbox for 5 hours last night with her friend who looks like John Belushi. UFC kicked butt last night. Jill’s friend says that “[my] mastery of memoir is rare in post-modernist blog entries.” Hopefully I do not miss the E3 expo because I need to see all of the latest games that are coming out in 2008. NBA season is coming up, and I can’t wait to see Derek Rose in action. I played against him once, and he brutalized my team (in the video game). But, that gave me the courage to continue playing basketball and work on my craft.

A late blog from the wrap party on Friday - by Devon

Ok, I’m going to skip the whole work day and go to the wrap party. There was a problem with communication on my part. I was supposed to bring Jauvonnie with me to the wrap party in Hyde Park at Pizza Capri. Once I found a ride I was supposed to go and pick her up. My mom wasn’t being so easy though. I asked her countless times to pick up Jauvonnie because I was supposed to bring her, the director, with me. Yet my mom wouldn’t go pick her up because she didn’t talk to her mom. I was going to get chewed out if I show up to the party without the director, but my mom didn’t care. So when she dropped me off I went inside the restaurant and they set me at a table. I was explaining what I was there for but I guess they didn’t know what I was talking about. So when I saw Jarvon and Joe I walked outside to be with them and we talked a bit. Then we saw Jill across the street at a Starbucks. So we were all over there talking and then we thought we saw Brandon walking across the street, but come to find out it wasn’t him. So we went inside and Kit Woods was sitting down on the other side of the wall I was at and we sat down and were waiting for everyone else to come. There were kids from the same program at another school there with us. Their movie is also a drama and John Mossman is helping them as well. So when everyone came in, they brought in the pizza and everyone began to talk amongst themselves. Soon after, we introduced ourselves and stated our positions in our projects, and then Lizzy and John talked. A couple of actors had come in, and that was mainly it. After the cheesecake, the party was over. I needed to find a Currency Exchange so I could buy myself a 1-day bus pass, so Albert, Joe, Jarvon, Jill and I were walking around Hyde Park. After I got my 1-day, we went into Dunkin Donuts and after she bought us donuts, Jill went home. The rest of us went into Game Crazy. There was a boy on a bike trying to be on some sly stuff and tried to run over Joe. Albert was looking like it was a problem waiting so he could swing. We were up in Game Crazy about 50 minutes. When we were on the bus, Joe was tweaking… I think it was the colitis from the pizza and smoothie he had. He was talking and laughing loud on the bus about really nothing, and people were running off the bus shaking their heads.

Waiting For More Blogs

Well, here I am again - writing another blog 'cause our regular blogger must have more important things to do (I'm kidding - but he sure isn't writing as much this year.) Anyway, here goes . . .

One week to go!! Everyone seems busy (for the most part). Some students are still having a problem staying focused on their responsibilities and finishing them on time and to the best of their ability - but for some, this is still a learning process.

The doc people have the biggest job - they have a ton of video to process and to figure out how they want their documentary to look. The bloopers were never assigned so Byron volunteered to learn the editing program and put a blooper reel together. I think he's either all done already of nearly done - that's quick!

The soundtrack team is hard at work rearranging their music (most of it) now that they can actually see the shots and get a sense of the pacing of the video. We have a revised list of video-film festivals to which we'll be submitting the video. DVD labels, designed by Malachai, are being printed (a slow process).

Some of the students still don't have anything to do in post production so they are going to have to put together movie trailers for the video. Malachai did one on Friday and it's AWESOME! You'll be able to see all the work done by the students on the final DVD (just a mere $10 to help support the RTV major :)

The editors have done a lot in the last couple of days since shooting wrapped. The rough cut is more than 50 percent done and it's looking REAL GOOD! I saw one of the shots from the house that I hadn't seen them shoot (too many people in too small a space, so I waited outside the house when it was shot) - let me tell ya, that shot? - WOW! It'll send shivers down your spine!!!

The students joined with students from the other IFP production from the U of C for a wrap party last Friday at a pizza place in Hyde Park - some students were able to make it (I had to get ready for my Friday night job so I missed it too :(((

Okay, rest up crew because this is the last week - it'll go by fast so get your work done quickly! We'll let ya know when the premiere will be so keep checking the web site (http://www.geocities.com/hush_thevideo). Bye for now.

Mr. B

Devon finally posts a log for Tuesday

Ok, on this day, it was our last shooting day outside of the school. I thought this was going to be a very slow shot and it was because Mrs. Stackhouse's group came out to be extras since there weren't any there. Most of the crew who weren't being used behind the camera had to be extras , and that was most because of the jib that the camera was on (it lifts the camera up into the air). I was an extra but I had to stand in that hot sun for like 10 minutes until they were ready. We were in a tight time schedule, so we were rushing. After we shot it, it was a wrap, and we carried equipment back up to the room.

After a couple of minutes of catching our breath, all who were in the room had to sit at the table because Badesch had something he wanted to tell us. He was in the middle of a long story and he was starting to feel the mood (when he gets into this mode, it’s like he is preaching), when Byron pulled out his phone and was turning the volume down in front of Badesch and he went off on him. He took his phone and told him to go home. It was so reckless how it all happened; I was trying so hard to not laugh. So Byron asked Badesch to call his mother but no one answered so he left a message. Byron asked if his granddad could come get the phone but Badesch said no. When he was leaving, he yelled out peace and left. hehad no emotions and someone laughed when the door was closing.