The Fight for Chess Club

I spent my spring break at home for one week during one of the coldest times of the year. I passed on lavish warm foreign occasions or traveling adventures. No Canada, No Cancun, nothing like that.

And to be honest, it was the best spring break yet.

Filming was completed yesterday for Chess Club, which is quite possibly to date the largest video project I have done. Even though video production is not my specialty, for this it shows I've come a long way since filming Toasty and Offer You Can Refuse.

There were a few goals for this project:

1) Avoid the RMU Academic Media Center at all costs. Chess Club is my 3rd project for my TV Post Production class. The first one took 4 hours to complete, the second one was so frustrating to do I did it on Windows Movie Maker, even then converting it to Quicktime the quality lacked. You could compare that place with Wal-Mart: anytime you're looking for help, there's not a person around that can help you to the fullest extent. Editing this film at home with Videostudio 8 (from Ulead Systems, a VERY pimp program) was not only productive, but didn't require me to spend all-night render benders at the house of the failing technology. Also known as the Media Center. And one reason being that they royally fucked up everyone's copies of the Grease DVD.

2) Complete the project with minimal bitching.

I could write more, but that'll do for now.

look for the film to be released online within the coming weeks, hopefully on a high traffic site.