Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Internet Issues Resolved??
Working on Notes
Monday, March 30, 2009
TV Night
Internet Issues Continue
Sunday, March 29, 2009
More Editing
Since my of my Saturday was busy with Harry's BBQ and then Streamy Awards I didn't get much done in Editing of The Guild BTS DVD extras. So I knew today I need to kick it up. I have finished one piece and was about halfway done with a second. I really wanted to finish the second and at least get halfway done with the third. But the second piece took a little longer then planned. I had gotten up at 8am and only took two breaks (lunch and dinner) and didn't get done until around 11pm. After that I was so tired and my hands and fingers were killing me. I had been in front of that computer for 15 hours. But I finally got a cut done and sent it off to Felicia and Kim for notes.I then started on my third piece. I spent the next two and a half hours pulling interview bites. It was now 1:30am and I was too tired to continue so I called it a night. All the prep work is done for the third piece and know all I have to do is cut it together and find cover shots. I'll have to work on it at night when I get off work but I hope to have it done by Thursday night.
Then the weekend Felicia will be coming over to my place to do one final pass on the three piece, we will lock them and then I can uprez and do final outputs to send to Kim on Monday and this part of the Guild craziness will be over and I won't lie.. I am looking so forward to that.
TNG on Family Guy
I stopped for a half hour to watch this very special Family Guy which reunited the original cast of Star Trek The Next Generation.Some of my friends were disappointed with this as they have be heavily promoting this with clips of the TNG stuff. But the TNG/Stewie storyline was a very minor B story. And the Meg/Brian Religion story was the A story. But both Harry and I laughed out load at all the TNG pieces and loved every minute of it. Of course it would have been great if the episode revolved around the TNG story but what they did give us was hilarious.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Steamy Awards
Tonight was the first annual Streamy Awards (Oscars for Webseries) and The Guild and Legend of Neil are both up for awards. I had worked on the second season of both webseries. Felicia Day was kind enough to get me a ticket for the show tonight but with Harry's BBQ which we planned a month prior and my deadline for The Guild BTS DVD stuff I opted out and instead watched it live online.As I watched and read reports of folks who were there I kind of was bummed. If I wasn't so crazed I could have planned things out better and might have actually been able to attend.. but oh well I'm sure The Guild will be up for more awards next year and I'll be able to go. So instead I enjoyed watching it live and reporting on tweeter what was happening.
The Guild came away with three wins. The first one and I think one of the better ones as it's encompasses the entire cast "Best Ensemble Cast" of a webseries. Next Felicia Day won for "Best Actress" in a Comedy webseries and finally the big upset, The Guild was "Best Comedy" webseries beating out the favorite and many many award winner Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog. I was hooting and hollering at my computer screen I was so happy. The Guild may have lost out on some of the technical award to Dr. Horrible but it won some of the biggest and top awards. I'm very proud to call the cast and crew of The Guild, friends and know all their hard work paid off.
PS... Felicia Day was up for Best Writer of a Comedy Webseries and the clip they used was the one where I am a Bum on the streets from Episode 3. I almost fell out of my chair to see me on the huge screen. How cool is that.
Harry's Birthday BBQ
Today was Harry's Birthday BBQ. Ever since we moved into the house we have had a birthday BBQ as we have a great backyard for entertaining. We had a nice group of friends and family show up. We had some delicious hot dogs and hamburgers and all the sides. It was a very low key and nice party. I woke up earlier that morning in a panic because I forgot to bake his birthday cake the following night. But everything worked out great, cleaned up the house, which Harry did most of the night before, and prepped all the food and finished the cake. Everything was a success. Thanks to all those who joined us.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Internet Issues
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Editing Guild BTS and KOTG Microcast
Star Trek TNG on Family Guy
I heard about this a few months ago but Fox has up a preview of the upcoming Family Guy that features the entire reunited cast of Star Trek The Next Generation. I have watched this clip over and over and I laugh out loud every time. I can't wait till this Sunday and watch the entire episode. Check out the preview here.. you won't be sorry.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Daily Booth
Monday, March 23, 2009
8000 Visitors and More Editing
Today our Knights of the Guild website http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com has just hit it's 8000th visitor in a month and a half. I'm so happy that folks seem to enjoy the podcast that Jenni and I work so hard to produce.On another note I continued to edit The Guild BTS pieces for the upcoming DVD. It's alot of fun but very tiring as I only have time to do it after a long 12 hour work day and stay up till 1am every night. The good and bad thing is it will be over in a few weeks as all the pieces are due then. I'll keep you posted on news of The Guild second season DVD and when we might be seeing for sale.
Knights of the Guild on Twitter
Tonight I opened a Twitter account for our Knights of the Guild podcast. Seems like I have alot of folks, almost 400 people and I'm sure the majority of them are following me because they are Guild fans, which is fantastic. So I figured it was time for KOTG to have it's own following. So if you Twitter you can follow our podcast at @KnightsofGuild or if you want to follow me on Twitter you can find me at @geekyfanboy
Sunday, March 22, 2009
More Editing of Guild BTS
After watching BSG finale I started working on the two BTS pieces. I had done notes on one and sent my 5th pass to Kim and Felicia for finale notes. Then I spent the rest of the day editing the second piece. It's a slow process as I string out the interview bites then have to sift through 60 hours of footage to find the right shot that could cover what the interviewee is talking about. Around 11pm I was spent.. I wasn't feeling well and I could barely keep my eyes open. I intended to stay up to 1am like I have the past week but just couldn't do it.
Still have two weeks to get these pieces done.
Battlestar Galactica Finale
Well before I started editing my Guild BTS I wanted to take two hours and watch the final episode of Battlestar Galactica. It aired on Friday night and was dying all weekend to see it.It was a two hour and 11 minute roller coaster ride. Just when you thought it was over, it sped up and twisted. I enjoyed the ending. It was kind of like LOTR ending. There were many endings. they had a lot of story lines to wrap up
Some of the highlights:
Roslyn saying thank you to the Dr... this is when I started to cry. The fact that he was about to break down did it for me.
Loved seeing the old and new Cylons battling together.
The Galacitca crashing into the Cylon ship was beautiful. Then when it did it's final jump and looked as though it was going to break apart.. so good.
Adama saying goodbye to the Galactica.. very moving and a fitting end to that awesome ship.
When they did the montage of the ships flying into the sun and you hear the original BSG music.. gave me chills.
When Adama and Roslyn say goodbye to Lee and Starbuck.. that's when the water works began and they continued with the Adama and Rosyln scene in the shuttle, then she dies, then Adama puts his wedding ring her.. just thinking about scene brings tears to my eyes.
So many good things. They still left a few unanswered questions that fans could interpret different ways.
I was so happy to see that they showed up a few days after they reached "Earth". And the idea of present humans on Earth are decedents of Hera the Cylon/Human hybrid.. which means we all have a little Cylon in us.
All in all it was a fantastic ending to one of the most dramatic and woderful series I have ever watched. I'm very sad to see it go, but enjoyed the wild ride it took me on.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Guild Stuff All Day
After the reshoots Jenni and I actually interviewed them for our Knights of the Guild podcast and had some very fun and entertaining conversations with them.
We finished with all that stuff around 3pm. I then started working on editing one of my BTS pieces for The Guild DVD. I'm actually working on notes for one and starting my second one.
I just wish I had more time in the day. I finally finished in the wee hours and went to bed. I hope to finish both pieces by tomorrow night.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Jared's Birthday Party
Nerd, Geek or Dork Test
Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test...
Pure Geek
35 % Nerd, 78% Geek, 35% Dork
For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Geek, earning you the title of: Pure Geek.
It's not that you're a school junkie, like the nerd, and you don't really stand out in a crowd, like the dork, you just have some interests that aren't quite mainstream. Perhaps it's anime, perhaps it's computers, perhaps it's bottlecaps, perhaps it's all of those and more. Your interests take you to events and gatherings that are filled with people you find unusual and beyond-the-pale, but you don't quite consider yourself "of that crowd." Instead, you consider yourself to be fairly normal.
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
KOTG Microcast #2 Quest for the Streamys
For our second microcast we talk about the 1st annual Streamy Awards. If you don’t know what they are.. the Streamys are to webseries as the Oscars are to movies.
And of course The Guild got the most nominations with 11 and Jenni and I couldn’t wait to share our excitement with our fellow Guildie fans.
So sit back and enjoy Knights of the Guild Microcast #2
Thanks, Kenny & Jenni
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
More Editing BTS and Microcast
Compliments
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
More Editing
It's so much fun to look back at all the great times we had last year shooting season two.
AM Editing
Because I stayed home a bit longer to edit the piece I was late coming into work. But today being St. Patrick Day and folks and their doctor appointment not many people were here when I did come in . After a crazy few weeks today has been fairly quiet... but of course it's only 5pm and it seems that thing always happen when I'm about to leave work. I'll keep you posted.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Another Long Day
The day wasn't any better.. lot's of work, digitizing, putting out fires here and there. We also had two new employees start today and of course they are night people so I had to stick around and train one and get the other one settled in. I didn't get out of work until 8pm.
Once home I ate dinner with Harry, watched some TV, and then began to work on some notes that I had received earlier in the day from Kim about the BTS piece I submitted yesterday. I finished with the notes around 11:30pm. Hung out for some quality time with Harry until round 12:30am and finally said good night and went to sleep.
Comic Con 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Editing The Guild BTS
Knights of the Guild Episode 2
- First up we have our monthly Vorkism, every month Vork will bestow his words of wisdom to us.
- Our location today is Zaboo’s bedroom in Vork’s house and my home studio (you’ll hear why we changed locations)
- For our Fan interview we have Swedish Guildie Bel-Rand.
- We update you on the Cast and Crew and what they currently are up too.
- For our BTS segment we discuss our experience working on Season Two Episode Four: Heroic Encounters.
- We have our first crew Interview, and of course who better then the Director and Editor of season two Sean Becker.
- We have our first Fan Feedback section.
- We ask for Donations.
- Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.
Episode 2 features:
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Guild BTS
Now that the schedule has been moved up on when my Guild BTS stuff is due I will be focusing all my free time for the next 15 days on finishing these pieces. Today I finished digitizing the rest of the tapes. I now have everything I shot in my system and I can began editing by BTS pieces. Talk about being stressed out, in the end I get these done in time to be put on The Guild season two DVD. Wish me luck...
The Ready Room #50
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Famous Last Words
Guess I spoke to soon.. got another email today informing me that yes all the BTS stuff for the Guild DVD is due at the beginning of April. So the next three weekends I'll be doing nothing but editing and try and slip some editing before going to work and when I get home from work. Gonna get this stuff done and looking great.. can't let down my fellow Guildies.Wish me luck guys...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Happy Anniversary
Six years ago today I got a response to my personal ad on Yahoo personals. It started off Dear Kelly and so began the courtship of Harry and Kenny. It still amazes me that I could find the person I was meant to be with the rest of my life 6000 miles away. It's been a wonderful six years. We've had our ups (getting married) and our downs (immigration issues) but the most important thing is that we have each other and the love we share will get us through anything.Love you Hubby
More Guildie Goodiness
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Stressed Out Guildie
Today I got an email and call informing me that the Behind the Scenes specials that I am suppose to cut in the next three months are now due in the next three weeks. Talk about panicking, Luckily I have about 2/3 of the tapes digitized but I haven't had a single moment to look over the footage or start to organize it. I figured I had months to go and could take my time.. well that's not the case. So now the next three weekends I'll be working on The Guild BTS and I won't be able to get everything that I wanted done in time... which is a bummer but stuff I can't finish for the DVD I hope they can put it up on their website or you tube channel.Must breath.. in... out... in....
Monday, March 9, 2009
Knights of the Guild Episode Two
After a long day at work, Harry and I tried to catch up on some TV as our recorder is beginning to fill up. We watched a few hours then both went to our computers to work, Harry is building his new website and I began editing KOTG podcast #2 which is due this Sunday. I edited from 10pm to 1:30am but manage to get a fairly tight rough cut done. Now I have to add sfx, music and do one final pass and it will be ready for upload on Sunday March 15th.
Grandma in Hospital
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Spreading myself to Thin
But I have to admit I'm spreading myself a bit too thin, between work, 2 podcasts (The Ready Room and Knights of the Guild), Editing 2 BTS webseries (The Guild and Legend of Neil), building my new website, and playing a Starfleet Captain for a RPG that I help fun, leaves little time for anything else. What free time I have I spend with my hubby, family and if I'm lucky a few friends.
I know this won't be forever.. but man this is tough. All I can do it take it one day at a time.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Legend of Neil BTS Shoot
Friday, March 6, 2009
Work Craziness Continues
Thursday, March 5, 2009
KOTG on Itunes
It was such a horrible day at work but right before I left I was checking out itunes and looked at there top 100 TV and Movie Audio podcasts and guess what I found.. Knights of the Guild was number 88… How cool was that.. talk about lifting my spirits.. it's just what I needed.
What a Day!!!!
This whole tape issue didn't help with the fact that we are up against the wall to get a four hundred(hours) of tapes digitized in a few weeks. Between decks breaking down, the crappy job the camera guys did on shooting the stuff (timecode breaks ever few seconds that cause the machine to kick the tape out) it takes two hours to digitize an hour tape.
Besides that we have old Avid system that breakdown at least once a day so I have editors and producers complaining everyday about something.
It was just a frustrating day....
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Recording KOTG #2
Tonight Jenni and I got together to record episode 2 of Knights of the Guild podcast. Both of us are super busy and this seemed like it would be the only time we could do it and since it need to be posted by the 15th we went ahead and recorded.I had to scramble and find a fan to interview and luckily I got my buddy Bel-Rand from The Guild chat forums. He's from Sweden and the time we picked to do the recording/interview was 9pm our time but 5am his time. But he really wanted to do it so he stayed up all night. Thanks Bel-Rand.
The interview was fantastic and the rest of the podcast just flew by. This is only the third time Jenni and I have recorded but it's like we have been doing this forever. I did a rough cut of the podcast after we recorded it and it sounded great. I can't wait to add the bumpers and interviews and polish it off. It will be posted on March 15th.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Forgot to Vote
Taking a Day Off
Monday, March 2, 2009
Long Work Day
Sunday, March 1, 2009
BTS for Legend of Neil
Today was the first shoot day on season two of Legend of Neil. Sandeep (who plays Zaboo on The Guild) is producing this comedy for comedy central. Legend of Neil is of course a spoof on Legend of Zelda, a very popular video game. You can check out season one and find out more info here about Legend of Neil http://www.effinfunny.com/legend-of-neilSince I did the BTS stuff for The Guild Sandeep had asked if I would do the same for LON season 2. And of course I said okay. Well come to find out they are shooting two weeks straight and of course I have a daily job. So I will only be shooting stuff on weekends for the next two weekends. I did pass on my camera to Jenni and hope she or another PA can get some good footage for me to use in my BTS stuff.
Today was our first day and we were filming in Angeles National Forest. It's a beautiful location but man there was alot of climbing up and down hills. I'm an old man and not use to all that walking. By the end of the day my feet were dying. But it was a fun shoot, lots of cool stuff happened. I took about 3 1/2 hours of video and about 300 pictures. I'm bummed that I won't be with them this coming week and look forward to joining them again next Saturday.


