Documentary Premiere!

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Rough Cuts: Search and Rescue and Outro

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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August!? When did that happen?

The summer has just been flying by and it's been so fun. I've kept busy with work and church and Law & Order SVU episodes. :-) God bless Netflix.

Salt & Light just hired another producer, Adam, who is just awesome. Very intelligent and has a lot of great ideas. I'm looking forward to working with him. We'll be scheduling for some more shoots here in the next few weeks before I head home and I'm pumped!

Before I leave, I'll also be doing some interviews with people for my own benefit: looking into my independent study about human/canine relationships. My friend and her mom took me to Southeastern Guide Dogs a few weeks back and I'm planning on going back and talking to some of the trainers. And, I have friends in the Florida Highway Patrol! Next week or so I'll be driving down to West Palm (or Miami, haven't decided) to hang out with a few of the K9 units! I'm so excited.

I'm especially pumped because I'll get to see this dog again:

I'm keeping busy and loving it and I hope I get to come back!

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Post Number 50!

Yay!!

Whoohoo!

Not that 50 posts is all that significant. Particularly because it doesn't seem like that many! Anyway, nothing horribly exciting is happening right now but the 4th of July was fun and I had some time to see the beach and explore a bit. Also, a friend is visiting this weekend and my parents are coming down next weekend! Now if I could only get my dogs down here... :-)

As for the internship, well, I've been working on a dozen different projects! Still doing some research on the homeless and the hungry but today I discovered some of the gangs that exist in our area in addition to the rest of the nation. Interesting stuff! There are over 1,000 different gangs in Florida alone! And not only are they in big cities (Miami, Jacksonville, Tallahassee), they are expanding to more suburban and rural areas now. Plus, the internet opens up world wide interaction. Scary, but true.

The Florida Highway Patrol project is moving rapidly through production and so far so good! The last of the footage needed has been gathered. Salt & Light (S&L) still wanted two more events; a traffic homicide and the Tactical Response Team (TRT) making a warranted arrest. So we attached a couple of mini-cameras to the vests of some troopers making the arrest and our senior producer, Don, dragged himself out of bed a 3:30am to shoot some footage of a traffic homicide he was called about. These things may not be pretty, but they are real and deserve some attention.

Ending on a happier note, I've discovered a fantastic church in the area that I just love. And I've finally made some friends that are around my age! Not that I don't adore my supervisors and various Hanover alumni! I've rediscovered my faith and haven't been happier in a long time.

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Tough Exterior, Super Soft Interior

This is again a purely venting post, but it's also something I'd love to ask of anyone who has the ability.

Adopt a dog! There are millions of dogs in shelters and rescue programs that deserve loving homes.

There is one thing I swear to do when I have the means. I'm going to adopt a german shepherd; likely a senior. Any senior dog hits the soft spot of my heart.

At home I have a beautiful 13-year old cardigan welsh corgi, Maris, whom I miss on a daily basis. You can see her age in her face, her eyes, and in her lazy daily schedule.

But when that show lead comes out, she becomes a pup and shows her heart out for me!

Here are a few pics of my beautiful old lady.

I miss my dogs.

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