We made due though, and after introducing myself the Edison and Owner/Operator, I was able to tie directly into their sets. I wished they had started an hour earlier so I could have gotten to see Egadz set. Anyway, here’s the resulting video(s)

The video was shot with minimal lighting for a slightly grungy look, and jump cut-edited in post for impact. This was an opportunity for me to completely light, direct, shoot, edit, and post produce an entire project, including writing music for the piece. This was also the first time I was able to present my logotype and ideogram at the end of a piece.

I hadn’t known the Bachrans super well while attending church with them, but I’d served alongside them a number of times, and ran into Daniel more than once at the Mac Store. When I found out that Kelly was an American Idol hopeful that went on to Hollywood week, I jumped at the chance to shoot a quick video with them. I had seen that they were recording some cover songs in their house, so I offered to come and shoot something with my own gear in their home setting. This was the result. While I need to work on a better way to stabilize my camera during shooting, I was pretty happy with the way it turned out, and my reward ultimately, was the experience of shooting and producing it. I need to remind myself of that more.

Anyway, the way this works into entertainment is that, despite the fact that I have a decent current library of DVD’s, I have a hard time buying them anymore. For one, we can’t really watch about 90% of them while my daughter is awake because of violence, language, whatever. Second, there are really only a handful that I care to watch over again with any frequency. The rest, I feel could just be rentals.

I’m not even sure if I want to buy Blu-Ray discs, because I feel like even it is a transitional delivery format, but the biggest reason for not buying now is because the future of media, I believe, is digital content delivery. We’ve already seen Netflix on all kinds of devices, Blu-Ray players, PS3, and we ourselves have a Roku that we use with frequency. The Roku, and devices like it, are the future. The Roku has pretty much changed the way we view media. We have ditched cable TV completely. We have a slow and steady queue of stuff coming from Netflix, and we use the Netflix Instant Watch. Occasionally, we rent a movie or TV episode from Amazon Video On Demand. We listen to Pandora, we look at Facebook photos, I catch shows from Revision 3 and Blip.tv.

Back in September, Dreamworks Studio simultaneouly released “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs” to theaters AND Sony Blu-Ray players testing out how viable that would be. Of course, it was $24.99 to rent it for 24 hours, and at that price point, you could almost buy the movie. BUT, it does indicate where things are going. I could see in the future, friends gathering in front of a nice home theater system, and renting a first run film, and splitting the cost with your buddies.

Hopefully in the future there will be a balance struck between the convenience and low cost of digital content delivery for the consumer, and a way for the industry to still make money and support the creation of great entertainment.