Today was an all day event to get to and from the Great Wall. It is about 50 miles outside the city, but it was a 2 hour cab ride each way (in part because our cab driver kept getting lost) and we spent about 3 hours walking the Great Wall, taking photos and having lunch.
More photos can be found on Flickr.
Madison Ollar, daughter of my sister Debbie and her husband Steve Ollar.
It seems like only yesterday that we welcomed Madison into the world, and now she’s heading off to her first day of school.
The first 4 videos are done and have already played at the show today. The last video gets done late tomorrow night and I have 2 days to get that one done. Here is a sample of one of the 4 videos that we did. All in all 13 people were interviewed and shot for the 4 videos that were created.
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It’s 1:45am (Saturday) and I’m finally done for the day. At least a had a few good laughs doing these videos.
This year I setup a client table with an extra monitor and speaker to make sorting through all the footage easier.
Today is probably the most difficult day of the trip, at least for me. Yesterday Brian and John interviewed 13 people, which today has to be turned into four, 4 minute videos that all have to be done and on tape before I leave today. I started around 10:30 and my guess is I’ll be here until close to midnight.
Yesterday there were some technical problems that required an overnight FedEx of a new AJA IO box, and thank god that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks to Steve and Kathy at AJA for chasing down the FedEx truck to make sure I was able to get it in time! I was a little freaked out about it all yesterday afternoon. The problem was that the audio kept dropping out during any kind of playback, including mastering. Everything is working fine now.
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