The Youthorizon Summer Camp production of "High School Musical II" is essentially 'in the can'.
The last thing that needs to be done is finding the names of all the performers who sang, danced, and acted in the show.
I will let folks know how to get a copy of the DVD once it is ready for distribution.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Production Notes 1
My Ponte Vista blog contains weekly posts that are called "Odds and Ends".
This post is the first in what I hope to become a weekly update dealing with the videos and productions I am involved with.
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The final DVD of "Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds, The Musical" ("Singing Jailbirds") is still in the computer and is taking much longer than I thought it would take to get a final product out.
Since all of the cast and crew have the opportunity to view the rough cut DVD of the show I handed out, I feel I need to work on other videos before getting that monster finished.
And what a monster it is turning out to be. 28 tapes were used in recording 7 performances of the production.
I am now down to using just 16 tapes because I have found that the other 8 tapes do not have what I want for the DVD on them.
The final DVD will come sometime in the fall I now believe. There are more important videos to work on for my Youtube site and for The Relevant Stage and Youthorizons.
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The second performance of High School Musical 2 should be completely into the computer this weekend.
I will be using the tapes from the two cameras and I hope to get some great tape at Taste in San Pedro, of the cast.
I have one rehearsal video and four video of bits up on Youtube and one of the short videos that I put up just today has over 66 views already.
The editing of this production should be fairly straight forward. There is one song that I had to change tapes during on the closeup camera. I may need to go with the full-stage camera video of that one song.
I hope to have a completed DVD to give to Ray Buffer by the end of August, for this production.
Ray, as the producer, has the responsibility to do with as he pleases with the completed DVD. I don't know how the DVD would get distributed to cast members, but I hope it does. If he asks me, I will make copies from the original saved files of the completed DVD.
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For those more impatiently waiting for me to get the DVD done, here is the processes it takes to get a video from camera to DVD, using my iMac.
1. A production is taped using my up to two-hour recording time, digital camcorder and my one-hour recording time digital camera.
2. The recordings are then uploaded into my iMac iMovie software. This takes quite a bit of time because I am using image stabilization for creating the final DVD.
3. Once I have the complete recordings from both cameras stored in the iMac, I then can cut the production into a movie.
3A. This is where I take the video bits of the cast members and create stills for the credits of the show and this is also where I add text, more sound, transitions, and equalize the sound throughout the Project. I also produce opening and closing credits for the Project, in this step.
4. When I am satisfied with the Project, I 'Share' it by having the computer put it into a different form. This also is a time consuming process for larger videos.
5. For the videos I put up on Youtube, it can take some time for the Youtube servers to upload the videos onto them and place them on my page.
6. For this production, I will forgo using Final Cut Pro and move the Project into iDVD.
7. Using iDVD I can create chapters and create the introduction. and main title sequence of the DVE.
7A. Creating the initial DVD for the Project takes a long time, too. The longer the video, the more time is necessary for the computer to process it and get it ready to be 'burned'.
8. Once the first DVD has been burned, the time it takes to burn more DVDs becomes shorter.
9. Along with production of a DVD and copies of the DVD, there is also the steps in producing the DVD label and the cover for the Jewel Case.
High School Musical 2 runs about one hour and fifteen minutes without opening and closing credits.
I can figure for each one of the 75 minutes of the production, it can take 20 minutes or slightly more to get the end product produced. I figure it takes about 25 hours of regular post taping time to get a 1 hour, 15 minute video to where it can be viewed.
As I am writing this post, it is going to take about three hours to upload the first 43 minutes of HSM2 from the one-hour camera, into the Project file.
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"The Last 5 Years" is the next Event I will be taping. With the way the stage production is being produced, it could take until next year to get the final DVD out for that production.
The stage production that will be taped includes over stage image presentations that need to be viewed while cast members are onstage.
For all but a very short period of time, the two members of the cast will not physically be very close to each other and they may be so far apart that they won't appear within the frame that includes the overhead presentation.
Thankfully, I had "Rose Ritz" as a training ground for this type of production. It's going to be tough to tape, but I am looking forward to the challenge.
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Fiasco Films, Escolar Films, Cellmaster Productions, Portowop Productions, Scene-phobic Productions, and a couple of other entities have produced films and videos going back to the 1960's.
Since about 1989, a small but growing group of friends have produced videos yearly or just about yearly. Many of these films and videotapes are now just memories.
But some of them are or may become available to be digitally saved.
This means that they can be stored and re-edited, as a few have already been.
"More On T.V." or "Moron T.V." will be the first joint production that will have bits of it up on my Youtube page.
There are many flat out hilarious bits in that production and I thing all who view the shorts will be entertained.
I intend to try and get bits of that production up on Youtube this coming week.
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I am also going to put up some video of "Energizer", the Street Dancer Daniel help campaign to become the world champion of Street Dancers in 2000.
I will also put up more video of C-Wrecks on my Youtube page. This was the Radical Dancer Daniel designed the engineering of the chassis for and he was the primary builder of the chassis.
C-Wrecks became the Pennzoil-sponsored demonstration dancer that toured the country at many Lowrider shows.
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I expect future "Production Notes" posts will be much shorter than this initial one and I very much hope that is the case.
This post is the first in what I hope to become a weekly update dealing with the videos and productions I am involved with.
___________________________________________
The final DVD of "Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds, The Musical" ("Singing Jailbirds") is still in the computer and is taking much longer than I thought it would take to get a final product out.
Since all of the cast and crew have the opportunity to view the rough cut DVD of the show I handed out, I feel I need to work on other videos before getting that monster finished.
And what a monster it is turning out to be. 28 tapes were used in recording 7 performances of the production.
I am now down to using just 16 tapes because I have found that the other 8 tapes do not have what I want for the DVD on them.
The final DVD will come sometime in the fall I now believe. There are more important videos to work on for my Youtube site and for The Relevant Stage and Youthorizons.
____________________________________________
The second performance of High School Musical 2 should be completely into the computer this weekend.
I will be using the tapes from the two cameras and I hope to get some great tape at Taste in San Pedro, of the cast.
I have one rehearsal video and four video of bits up on Youtube and one of the short videos that I put up just today has over 66 views already.
The editing of this production should be fairly straight forward. There is one song that I had to change tapes during on the closeup camera. I may need to go with the full-stage camera video of that one song.
I hope to have a completed DVD to give to Ray Buffer by the end of August, for this production.
Ray, as the producer, has the responsibility to do with as he pleases with the completed DVD. I don't know how the DVD would get distributed to cast members, but I hope it does. If he asks me, I will make copies from the original saved files of the completed DVD.
--------------------------------------------------------------
For those more impatiently waiting for me to get the DVD done, here is the processes it takes to get a video from camera to DVD, using my iMac.
1. A production is taped using my up to two-hour recording time, digital camcorder and my one-hour recording time digital camera.
2. The recordings are then uploaded into my iMac iMovie software. This takes quite a bit of time because I am using image stabilization for creating the final DVD.
3. Once I have the complete recordings from both cameras stored in the iMac, I then can cut the production into a movie.
3A. This is where I take the video bits of the cast members and create stills for the credits of the show and this is also where I add text, more sound, transitions, and equalize the sound throughout the Project. I also produce opening and closing credits for the Project, in this step.
4. When I am satisfied with the Project, I 'Share' it by having the computer put it into a different form. This also is a time consuming process for larger videos.
5. For the videos I put up on Youtube, it can take some time for the Youtube servers to upload the videos onto them and place them on my page.
6. For this production, I will forgo using Final Cut Pro and move the Project into iDVD.
7. Using iDVD I can create chapters and create the introduction. and main title sequence of the DVE.
7A. Creating the initial DVD for the Project takes a long time, too. The longer the video, the more time is necessary for the computer to process it and get it ready to be 'burned'.
8. Once the first DVD has been burned, the time it takes to burn more DVDs becomes shorter.
9. Along with production of a DVD and copies of the DVD, there is also the steps in producing the DVD label and the cover for the Jewel Case.
High School Musical 2 runs about one hour and fifteen minutes without opening and closing credits.
I can figure for each one of the 75 minutes of the production, it can take 20 minutes or slightly more to get the end product produced. I figure it takes about 25 hours of regular post taping time to get a 1 hour, 15 minute video to where it can be viewed.
As I am writing this post, it is going to take about three hours to upload the first 43 minutes of HSM2 from the one-hour camera, into the Project file.
__________________________________________
"The Last 5 Years" is the next Event I will be taping. With the way the stage production is being produced, it could take until next year to get the final DVD out for that production.
The stage production that will be taped includes over stage image presentations that need to be viewed while cast members are onstage.
For all but a very short period of time, the two members of the cast will not physically be very close to each other and they may be so far apart that they won't appear within the frame that includes the overhead presentation.
Thankfully, I had "Rose Ritz" as a training ground for this type of production. It's going to be tough to tape, but I am looking forward to the challenge.
__________________________________________
Fiasco Films, Escolar Films, Cellmaster Productions, Portowop Productions, Scene-phobic Productions, and a couple of other entities have produced films and videos going back to the 1960's.
Since about 1989, a small but growing group of friends have produced videos yearly or just about yearly. Many of these films and videotapes are now just memories.
But some of them are or may become available to be digitally saved.
This means that they can be stored and re-edited, as a few have already been.
"More On T.V." or "Moron T.V." will be the first joint production that will have bits of it up on my Youtube page.
There are many flat out hilarious bits in that production and I thing all who view the shorts will be entertained.
I intend to try and get bits of that production up on Youtube this coming week.
___________________________________________
I am also going to put up some video of "Energizer", the Street Dancer Daniel help campaign to become the world champion of Street Dancers in 2000.
I will also put up more video of C-Wrecks on my Youtube page. This was the Radical Dancer Daniel designed the engineering of the chassis for and he was the primary builder of the chassis.
C-Wrecks became the Pennzoil-sponsored demonstration dancer that toured the country at many Lowrider shows.
__________________________________________
I expect future "Production Notes" posts will be much shorter than this initial one and I very much hope that is the case.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Four More Youthorizons Videos Posted
There are now a total of four videos from Youthorizons Summer Camp's production of High School Music 2.
It looks like the kids had fun doing their shows.
Doesn't it remind many of us about many of the "Our Gang" shorts where the kids put on a show for various reasons.
It also appears that Alfalfa was channeled very accurately by at least one of the cast members.
Voice cracking in male youths is just a natural thing. Except for probably the late King of Pop.
I will post bits and songs from both performances at the Warner Grand Theatre and I expect to tape the cast at Taste in San Pedro.
Please don't tell cast members that there were a couple of hundred folks at the Warner Grand and there will be thousands of pairs of eyes watching them at Taste in San Pedro.
I don't want to make them nervous, I fear.
It looks like the kids had fun doing their shows.
Doesn't it remind many of us about many of the "Our Gang" shorts where the kids put on a show for various reasons.
It also appears that Alfalfa was channeled very accurately by at least one of the cast members.
Voice cracking in male youths is just a natural thing. Except for probably the late King of Pop.
I will post bits and songs from both performances at the Warner Grand Theatre and I expect to tape the cast at Taste in San Pedro.
Please don't tell cast members that there were a couple of hundred folks at the Warner Grand and there will be thousands of pairs of eyes watching them at Taste in San Pedro.
I don't want to make them nervous, I fear.
Howdy All!
This is the first post on my newest blog.
Howdy to the cast of High School Musical 2 from Youthorizons Summer Camp.
Right now there is only one video on Youtube featuring you at your rehearsal from last Thursday.
As I create a Archive DVD of the entire show I will post videos of parts of the show and place them on Youtube at: www.Youtube.com/escolarfilms.
It takes some time to produce short videos while I am also trying to produce full lengths videos of HSM2 and "Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds, The Musical".
Since I get paid the exact same amount to procrastinate in producing the Singing Jailbirds DVD as I do actually producing it, I am going to spend more time creating the final HSM2 product and shorts this coming week.
Don't worry about the Singing Jailbirds cast. They already have or have access to a rough cut of that show and they can watch that whenever possible.
Joseph has a copy of the rough cut of that show as he was a cast member.
If you have a special request for a short video of the show, please leave a comment and I will try to include it within the coming week.
I don't expect to have a finished DVD until very near the end of August, so please be patient.
The videos will be produced from the second performance and I think you will be happy watching it.
The Youtube site will also have many other short videos added in the coming weeks. Some will make you laugh and some will amaze you.
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