I bought a new hard drive to deal with the massive amounts of memory required to produce the show. Steve and I spent a couple of hours trying to record a song he wrote on Friday only to be frustrated by a full memory. Time is turning into a very precious commodity in this project. Now, I look at the credits at the end of a commercially produced show and see how many people put in time taking care of all the little details that go into production and I see what doesn’t get done in my show. It certainly helps if you know what you’re doing. There are a lot of skills I have to learn before I add them to the show. There are a lot of details that I wasn’t even aware of 2 months ago.
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Music From Bob’s Basement Part 5
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Music from Bob’s Basement part 1
Saturday, September 26th, 2009I don’t remember the exact moment or thought I had when I made that call to the cable company to make a local access tv show. It wasn’t obvious to me just how much work it would entail. I soon learned that I was to become a producer. They sent me a kit of 36 pages which included a lot of legalize gobbledygook and technical video jargon of which I had never heard. There was also the camera stuff in which my mac computer doesn’t like the windows based file format my camera produced. After struggling to get the performance right only to discover that I hadn’t turned on the camera and finally converting it to a format that I could put in iMovie without being reminded by an image plastered across my creation stating that win4mac is a trial version I finally got to the point where I was moving video clips and audio clips to a time-line. After days of struggling to get the movie looking and sounding the way I wanted it to I found that iDVD was no picnic either. After 3 weeks of work I finally got my first weekly episode on a DVD and delivered to the cable company. I’m going to have to work faster. I’m also going to have to get a lot more material. There are the songs I wrote and songs in public domain but, most of the stuff I’ve mastered I’m going to need a music synchronization license for.
Producing a TV Show
Thursday, September 24th, 2009I apologize for taking so long to put up a new blog entry. I’ve been busy trying to produce a local access TV show called ‘Music From Bob’s Basement’. I suppose my newest endeavor could be attributed to mid-life crisis in that I’m exploring unrealized youthful dreams. The cliche of a sports car really doesn’t fit me; though, I have found myself eyeing Chevy 10 vans lately. My parents bought their first TV when I was less than a year old in 1954. I grew up watching TV and I attribute my overweight state as stemming from the anxiety I felt during that 3 month period in my late twenties when I tried going without television. Ironically, I now feel the need to snack when I watch TV which I didn’t before that life altering experience. Maybe, I should go back to eating at the dinner table. It would certainly save on stained shirts but, since I have to eat anyway and my newest endeavor of producing a TV show requires me to study the masters; I might as well accept that I’m probably eating while viewing because of all the food commercials.
Leah’s Party
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Last night I got to go to Leah’s party. There was delicious food and 3 coolers of beer and people who were so much fun to play with, listen to and play for. I’m hoping Leah will forward that message to everyone who attended and they share something in the comments section.