It's a go!

Well, I'm excited to share with you my first broadcast video production piece. It's that wrestling thing I shot about a month ago, and it'll finally air on my friend's OC16 cable show this Sunday at 7:30pm. So tune in, videotape it, TiVo it, whatever, and enjoy!

A little more background on the segment: I used my own consumer camcorder, an almost 4-year-old Sony Digital-8 model with its own on-board mic so... let's just say I'm not proud of the overall "technical" aspects of the piece (if I had my druthers - and the money - it'd be shot with the Panasonic AG-DVX-100A and an external microphone). What I am proud of is the actual "production" of the thing: I shot all of the footage, edited the whole segment, drew up all of the graphics, and composed the bits of music throughout. I'm pretty happy with, especially considering this was the first time I jumped into Apple's Final Cut Pro program whole hog after a few years using iMovie.

After this Sunday, my friend's show will go into reruns, so my next project is to re-jigger some of the commercials of the past season (about 13 shows). I won't be doing any actual videotaping, but along with the aforementioned re-editing and re-ordering of the commercial breaks (due to sponsor changes and the like), I might edit and produce a few brand-new :30 promos.