preface: i. can not. imagine. working in an editing suite without a timeline. i hear that iMovie – which i don’t use for much more than manipulating still images for import to Final Cut Pro (and this reminds me that i should learn to use more of the tech in the FCP 2 suite for this kind of thing) — so but iMovie no longer has a timeline. wha? how does one imagine manipulating images and sound and effects as particular forms of movement within a specific timeframe absent a timeline on which to (em)plot those bits of light and sound? how does one conceptualize time-dependent motion sequences without the conceptual schematic of the timeline? maybe it works. let’s say. so maybe i’m too skeptical and need to spend more rather than less time w/ iMovie, especially if i want to be teaching filmmaking because that program is most readily avaiable to students (?). but so not for my film. not now. no new learning except in doing. and this, via FCP.
the “rhetorically groovy ‘workflow’” point: i’m writing more to say that i’m laying some of M’s YouTube videos onto my film’s timeline, which is to say that i am beginning to map out the documentary (on, ahem, a timeline). i will be using a lot of what he has already produced and then laying in my interview and other footage (including a way cool audio introduction, courtesy of M’s voiceover, that we’ll hear in darkness). i may take this opportunity to share my refined acting skills and do some affected voiceover work, myself. it’s my film. so.
the “overt rhetorical action” point: by way of further updating on my “workflow” (Johndan), even as i suggest to the ether: that. i. have needs … i need to buy a wireless router so that i can work exclusively at home instead of going to campus to download video. i also need to buy a good camera for stills, which i’m going to be using much more than i have in the past ’cause i’m going all (or, a bit anyhow) Chris Marker on this film. i’m looking at the Nikon D300 w/ the AF DC-NIKKOR 85 mm f/1.8D lens. should total @ $2500.00-$3000.00, plus $179.99′ish for the router. so today, i’m going to apply for some grant money (that, or renegotiate the budget w/ the hubster). and/or pray for money to fall from the Heavens. and you know that sh*t happens.
