Landing in London

Nothing too exciting initially, but you can get the gist of our personalities from these pictures...

And how big our plane was!!

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Documentary Premiere!

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Last Semester!

It's so exciting to think that I graduate in just 4 months!!

My IS is nearly complete and ready for submission to the library (for the school's record). I've been submitting it to film festivals and will be presenting it at the conference in April at Butler University. I'm also going to officially premiere it on Hanover's Family Day on March 26th at 2pm. And everyone is welcome to attend! Click on the link for more information and to register to attend!

Life is just very exciting right now. I'm finishing up my comprehensive paper and will take the oral portion of it in the next few weeks. Assuming I pass everything, I'll be graduating in May after our two week trip to England! My spring term class is Documentary Production and two weeks of it is going to be spent in England, spending time in London, Cambridge, and Stratford Upon Avon. Should be very fun!!

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Rough Cuts: Search and Rescue and Outro

Very Rough Cuts of my documentary!

These are very rough and there are still more on the way that will likely be up later tonight. I greatly appreciate any constructive criticism, so please feel free to email me at skparker1500@gmail.com or private message me on Facebook. Thanks!

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Independent Study Update

Things are beginning to fall into place with my documentary! I still need to iron out my scripts and edit my footage, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Rough cut this week, final cut next week, entire project the week after! Hooray!

Here's something I put together briefly that I can't use in my actual documentary, but I thought it was fun and just had to share!

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Independent Study

For the past two months, I've been working on my independent study. It's a documentary about the relationship between dogs and humans. Specifically, I've spent time with dogs with jobs and their handlers, including seeing eye dogs, police dogs, search and rescue dogs, and show dogs.

It's been quite a lengthy project and I've learned that there are many, many ways that it can be done. So far, I haven't been able to figure out the best way for me, but this is my first whole video project. I'm hoping to eventually enter it into a few festivals and officially present to the campus at some point in January or so. I doubt I'll post the entire thing online, but I hope to post rough cuts of segments for feedback on accuracy and style. Yay!

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An Official Update!

Ah, at last, the pictures! I think they are pretty self explanatory as to what we were doing at the time! I do want to mention that we were standing under a bridge over the highway when we shot the motorcycles. It was HOT and SCARY! The cars are obviously moving very fast. Driving on it is one thing but standing next to the road is something else! No one was harmed. :-)

Following the K9 units was the most fun for me for obvious reasons! The troopers are great people and the dogs are fascinating. I've never been scared of dogs, so being told to stand back from some of these dogs was a bit off putting. Then we witnessed them practice attacking the man in a bite suit! That was intense! These dogs are brilliant and powerful. I hope I can go back again sometime this summer and do some work for my independent study!

I loved this dog's muzzle ^

This is Leroy. Of the dogs we met, he was really the only one I could pet. Ha!

For good reason too!
I didn't actually go up in the airplane, but this picture is awesome. It's actually a shot from a camera that we stuck to the wing. Wicked footage. I'll share if I can.

The last day of Miami was spent mostly with the K9 units again. We got to ride along and watch the dogs search cars. One guy got arrested for having a bag of weed that the dog found. Man. It was quite interesting to observe.

These past weeks I've been doing all kinds of different things. I've been capturing footage from the tapes from Miami as well as researching music to use in the recruiting video and in the full length documentary. I've also been working on some other projects that are up and coming. It's mostly been initial research but one topic is homelessness in Florida and how there is a new breed of homelessness (not just someone living on the streets). More details as it develops!

Besides the internship, I've been meeting some people through an awesome church in the area and I'm starting to feel at home down here. I may come back!

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Looking Forward to the Summer!

This summer I'll be working for Salt & Light Productions.

They are located in Sarasota, Florida and I will be staying in a nice condo in what looks like a wonderful neighborhood.

I will be working with the group there making documentaries. I imagine I'll be doing a lot of research and hopefully a lot of learning! I plan on updating this blog with my experiences.

And when I'm not working, I'll probably be swimming in the pool or at the beach. I can't wait to get tan!

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