Video Tour Diary Day 3: Made it to Manhattan
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By Day Three, we have one valuable lesson learned: The longer into the night one edits video and multimedia, the more punchy/silly one becomes.
So far we're thinking that it takes about an hour per minute to edit, render and upload our video packages to the Web.
Has that stopped us from shooting video? Not in the slightest.
Today we met with Dan Schwartz, a partner in a Hartford-based law firm to talk about bringing bar associations, at least the Connecticut Bar, into the 21st Century.
From Hartford, we headed south to NYC. On our way, we stopped off at Folio Mag's offices to show off our tour vehicle and chat a bit. They're planning a story in their October issue about how the Rebels project is creating a new kind of journalism.
After a quick bite to eat, we headed to Manhattan, where we parked our Navigator for the next six days, leaving the driving duties in the capable hands of NYC cabbies.
Check out our Daily Diary recap:
For a splashy look at our day, complete with music:
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Posted by B. McLeod - 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes ago
Wow, my own shout-out! Thanks! I think that’s really great!
Take heed, though, white clam pizza fans, I can assure you, that dish does not rival B. McLeod’s famous reuben pizza recipe (which one of the days, I may yet send along to the staff for a trial).
I could tell that Rachel was really getting psyched up today for the (surely eventual) singing part of the tour. You do need to rosette those button holes a bit though, Miss. (Aye, you’re in the back seat tomorrow)!
As far as wardrobe malfunctions go, in the context of streaming media, the real key is simply not to acknowledge them while you quietly take care of the situations. This means, no facial expressions (as in the shorter video clip) and absolutely never (never, never) affirmatively call attention to it (as in the long, 69:01 video clip). Think of it as analogous to accidentally using a competing network’s tag-line, then getting al self-conscious and calling attention to the fact that you did that. In the context of wardrobe malfunctions, there is even greater reason for quietly controlling the situation, which is that a few of the less mature people who missed it will go back once you have made it obvious and re-re-re-play it. Not that I did that (which of course, I wouldn’t). I mean truly, you have to realize that footage like that in the 69:01 video clip looks really wild when someone uses a small movement of the mouse (or actually pulls it off for continuous looping) to run those few frames over and over again in rapid succession. Probably Rachel would really blush, (beet red) if she could see what that looks like (not that I know, because I would never loop those particular frames like that myself). I note in passing that I’m actually far too decent a colleague to actually just blurt out, right in this post, the exact minute and second on the clip where that occurs (not that I made any special note of it, of course). I do think Rachel is absolutely going to get the number of “views” up, if you leave her in the front passenger seat.
Finally, when “Nerds to Go” really seems as funny as all that that, it’s time to stop for a bite to eat, and maybe even a nap.
Posted by Daniel Schwartz - 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 21 hours, 23 minutes ago
Thanks for the fun visit and the tattoos.