Slideshow: Sly Stewart’s ./shutdown episode 4 production stills.
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Michelle “Kenobi” Osorio: Blogging since 2000
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So I busted ass at work this week to make a deadline for a commercial. Marketing had alot more changes they want made to it though so they extended the deadline to next week, so more late nights for me!
I don’t mind, really. I love my job and want the final piece to be something I can be proud of. The only problem is that since the 5-day editing session to release ./shutdown episode 3, part 1 I’ve been having this back ache. I had too much caffeine one night after only 3 hours of sleep in two days. All of a sudden the small ache in my back became searing pain. I had to end that night early. That was weeks ago.
It came back last Wednesday night at work at about 11:30pm. I had to get picked up and taken home from the pain. So then I was okay again and figured it was just stress and I needed more sleep. So Thursday and Friday I followed my long works days up with late ./shutdown nights preparing for the shoot, but I made sure to get at least 6 hours of sleep each night. Then I got up at 5:30am on Saturday and prepped for our big shoot.
I shot handheld for 8 hours which made me very sore, but no big deal. The shoot was lots of fun. You’ll meet some really fun new characters that I hope you will like. Some of them surprised even me with how funny they were. Especially Buz and Liz. I’m also going to steal the red wallet chain we got for Roger. That thing is sexy. Not sure how sexy it will look on me though.
That night, I prepared my shotlist for the Sunday shoot. Sunday we reserved Office Games before it opened from 6am to 10am. So Saturday night I went to sleep at 9:30pm. I woke up at 2am and the back pain attack struck again! Okay, so I guess resting doesn’t help…
I wanted to vomit from the pain spreading to my stomach. I finally managed to get to sleep and we made it to the mall parking lot about ten minutes late 6:10. Well… an hour and a half later, the thing was a wash. A dozen shutdown cast/crew waited in the freezing parking lot and no one showed up.
Cris, our producer, called David (other producer/writer) and said the owner said the employee showed up and didn’t see us. That’s B.S. There was no one in the store, it was locked and we were in front of it at the mall. Ugh it sucked.
Anyhoo, the bright side is we all had a very humorous breakfast at Denny’s together. JJ, our occasional sound-guy was there to play the role of Office Games employee. He is the funniest mofo on the planet. We should make a show just about him complaining about things.
After that we went to Starbucks so this girl could interview us for her magazine design project at school. Then I went home and continued reading Chainfire in between bouts of sleep.
Then I went and bought an HDTV and surround sound speakers. Zesquishmitten came over and helped put it together with Flounder. Good stuff. So here I am, feeling decent. The back pain is gone for now, but my shoulders still hurt from the 8-hour handheld camera session.
I researched my back pain and some possibly suspects are a) ulcer, b) pancreatitis (yikes!) or c) kidney problems.
I’ve lived my life fit as a fiddle. The only real chronic problem I have is clammy hands. So I am pretty pissed that I may have some ailment of this nature. Well, I’m 26. I guess it was bound to start sometime. I plan to make an appt. with my Dr. on Tuesday.
Here’s hoping! I am still enjoying myself and feeling lucky to be aware I am living in the best years of my life right now. However, each time this back and stomach pain coes rushing back, nothing else exists. I have this singularly focus on the pain. Sometimes I embrace the pain and don’t fight it. Then it’s not so bad. I need to nip it in the bud quickly though. Hope it’s nothing serious.
Here’s the latest video I have done for work. Enjoy.
Break away from the mundane. Let the DivX team show you how
In other news, I am on my final week working on the new DLINK DivX Connected commercial. It is going to r0xx0rz omfg. Can’t wait to share it with you.
****UPDATE: Firefighters believe it will take at least one week from today to gain containment of the fires
****UPDATE: Pres. Bush will visit us on Thursday. He has declared a State of Emergency in 7 California counties, including ours.
****UPDATE: Number of evacuees in SD County has climbed to 500,000.
****UPDATE: The total number of acres burned in this county is not as high as I first put. It’s more like 250,000.My second impromptu video blog. This is footage of David and I on our way to bring supplies to the Steele Canyone High School Evacuation Center. We saw a Black Hawk land and take off in the parking lot of an Edwards movie theater.The total number of evacuees just here in San Diego has climbed to 300,000.The good news is that some people have been abel to return and the National Guard has air dropped over some regions and stopped the fires. The bad news is that more fires are starting randomly. Two of them are converging right now.
Here are some helpful links.
http://www.sandiego.gov/ohs/reverse911/
http://sosdfireblog.blogspot.com/
If you would like to help, DO NOT go volunteer at a shelter randomly. They
are overwhelmed as it is. You can get information on training and also donate to this area’ Red Cross specifically at:
Formats available: Microsoft Video (.avi)
*Update: David (writer/producer of ./shutdown) is joining me and we’re going to go get munitions to deliver to some shelters. Be back tonight.
*Update: Governor Schwartzenneger is giving a press conference in my town, El Cajon (just east of San Diego)
*Update: ./shutdown producer, Cris Spencer just evacuated from his place in Fallbrook. Godspeed, Cris. We love you!
An impromptu video blog shot on my Pentax camera and edited on Windows MovieMaker. The San Diego fires are spreading rapidly throughout the county. My office is closed and my friends and coworkers are among 250,000 local evacuees. The Governor has declared a state of emergency in 7 California counties.
Please stay up to date and register for Reverse 911. Here are some helpful links.
http://www.sandiego.gov/ohs/reverse911/
http://fireblog.signonsandiego.com/
http://www.sdcdpw.org/
If you would like to help, DO NOT go to a shelter. They are overwhelmed as it is. You can get info and donate to this area’s Red Cross specifically at:
Formats available: Microsoft Video (.avi), Flash Video (.flv)
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This weekend’s shoot was alot of fun. Many thanks to Ben P. for scoring us many of our Admin and End User actors. His coworkers at Sony made great characters. You’ll also be seeing more of some characters from episode 1! Below is a slideshow of production stills from the last couple of days.
You can also see higher-res pics at my ./shutdown episode 4 Oct. 13-14 Album. I just started using Picasa and I fracking love it, by the way.
Just finished recording voice-overs with British actress, Sara Jane Nash. She is a lovely lady. Here are a few pics. I’ll send more updates when the commercial is completed. There will be three versions in English, French and German.
Been so busy here at DivX. I’m on the third revision of a testimonial video for HR that you’ll be able to watch on the divx.com jobs page very soon. I’ll be staying late at work tonight to finish that one up.
Also, I am in pre-production on an exciting new project: a promo video for our first DivX Connected product from D-Link. European consumers should keep an eye out for it! We just did a voice-over test with a very lovely and talented actress, Sara Jane Nash today. The English recording session is this Friday. I’ll be directing the live-action video segments next week and then we’ll be recording the German and French voice-overs and putting it all together with the motion graphics by our resident design guru, Justin Shilf. Should be fun! Wish me luck!
P.S. - ./shutdown episode 4 shooting is a little delayed, but still continuing. I’m depending on our awesome Kill9 Studios team (David, Cris and Mattzog) to get everything ready for this weekend’s shoot, with the help of one of our lead actors, Ben. Hopefully that will go off without a hitch. I’ll reserve Friday night to finish my shot list. No rest for Michelle!
I’ve been sleeping an average of 3 hours a day whilst still crammin’ in a little exercise to keep myself going. The process of putting all this together has been intense, but we’re almost there. The first half of episode 3 is ALMOST DONE! OMFG!