ICast Adventure Begins…

This week, work takes me to sunny Orlando, Florida for the world’s largest sportfishing trade show! Getting to the airport at 4am is definitely the un-fun bit. It’s difficult to explain being so tired and so excited at the same time… mrkfrgmffdYIPEE!

(3:30am)

Working on a Boat

My behind the scenes content thus far is sparse, consisting of unintentional screen captures and cell phone pictures snapped at random. Still, I hope you can enjoy my humble gallery of fun memories:

New experiences make my job awesome!

Even in heavy boots and plastic bib overalls, there’s something wonderfully beautiful about sitting alone on an sandy island, filming from shore. Keeping my equipment clean proved to be a challenge, but the scenery was amazing. There’s nothing like the sun peeking through the Northwest clouds, water lapping closer and closer along the shoreline, and soft sand stretched out in both directions with not a single footprint but my own.

Though I tend to be a night person, I managed to get up at unmentionable hours for amazing fishing trips. Isn’t it beautiful?

At the same time, making everything work at a moment’s notice (i.e. when a fish gets caught and splashes water on the lens just as it is being reeled in) is far from glamorous. Here the lens had just suffered one of many encounters with water droplets. The only immediately available cleaning device was the rag shown here. Yes, the red stuff is what it looks like. And don’t worry, it’s from a fish. You do what you gotta do.

Lead and Bearings

This week has been a whirlwind of work and preparing for next week’s trip to iCast in Florida. I’m excited to finally have the opening and closing Fishwire video graphics completed and polished. Over the last few days, I’ve shot and edited a handful of short pieces for Fishwire.net. It’s definitely not subject content I’m familiar with, so these projects were adventures!

If you want to check out the first two videos, click on the pictures below:

Fishing Begins

After graduating from MHCC on a Saturday, I began work on the following Monday. I lived in Adobe After Effects and Photoshop for the first week, creating a video branding package including an open, close, and lower thirds template for Fishwire.net. The second week (this week), I got to go salmon and sturgeon fishing, getting up early in the morning to shoot video on the river, beach, and ocean. It’s been a whirlwind of learning, creativity, and adventure! We couldn’t have asked for better weather.



The first content bit I created is online today, exclusive to Fishwire.net: http://bit.ly/OITMjO

Next week a new chapter starts with more involved content, and I’m really excited!

Truman Johnny is Online!

On Monday I finally got the last safety permission cleared to post Truman Johnny online! Finishing this project has been a whirlwind of pulling pieces together and working with a great network of people. From here I hope to pursue grant funding to expand and refine the project. But for now, enjoy my 8-minute college thesis documentary, Truman Johnny!

Truman Johnny from Rae Nicole on Vimeo.

Flowers and Ducks and Such…

On Saturday I intended to chip away at ~60 hours worth of backlog, but after working in front of a screen all week (working full-time on After Effects is crazy fun, but hard on the eyes), I couldn’t resist going outside to brush up my camera skills and find something beautiful. On my way out the door, my little sister stopped me to show off her baby ducks, just born that morning. There went my afternoon. 🙂

Northwest Farm Weekend from Rae Nicole on Vimeo.

Truman Preview Online!

School is roaring to a close with graduation 14 days away! Check out the preview for my thesis project, which will show at the First Cut Film Festival on June 14th: