Yamhill Valley Vineyard's Mural video

This spring our friend John Stromme asked if we would like to do a video of the mural he and Eddie Johnson were painting at the Yamhill Valley Vineyard's tasting room.  A beautiful drive to a beautiful vineyard and winery.  We grabbed the camera the tripod and microphones.  We were there before lunch.

We filmed and interviewed John and Eddie.  We came back about a month later and filmed Denis Burger, Yamhill Valley Vineyard's owner.  Then the summer happened and some technical struggles with color.

Towards late summer, John and Eddie and another idea.  When the mural was finished they wanted to bring the wall to life.  Ariel Eberle, the assistant wine maker at the Yamhill Valley agreed to be painted into the mural.  We filmed her being painted and her emerging from the mural.

Back to the editing bay.  We did the best we could and finally the video of the mural was ready.

Over two hours of film for a 5 minute story.  I guess by industry standards that is pretty efficient.  Every story we work on, I get to learn something new.  Something new from those we are filming and something new technically about the production and editing process.

It makes for a challenging avocation.

Video Editing challenge: Meadowlake Studios Encounter: Dante Zapata

     Dante Zapata's "She's not going to change your mind" has feeling and depth.  The up tempo Reggie gives it movement. 

      We had a great time filming at Double D Music.  They were gracious in letting us move around and take over their limited space. 
      We put together a 30 minute Meadowlake Studios Encounter show of the Dante Zapata Trio.   The show should air on McMinnville Community Media soon. 

       Directing (and editing) a two camera shoot when the camera operators are not in audio contact and the cameras are not going through a switcher is not the best of situations.  Getting them to in sinc at the beginning is easy.  Then one of the cameras get snapped off for a few seconds, it happens so easy, then the editing is a nightmare. 

William Stafford Memorial Poetry reading

Getting cameras and everything ready for the Annual William Stafford Memorial Poetry Reading at Linfield's Nicholson Library. 

 The reading is hosted by Barbara Drake whose most recent book of poetry is "Driving One Hundred".  This will be the third time we have filmed Barbara and the Stafford event.  I like it because they invite anyone to come up and read a favorite Stafford poem and then one of their own poems.  It makes for a great evening.