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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Summer Wrap-Up

So, all in all, I had an excellent summer. Many friends were made, wonderful experiences were had, and many memories created.

I got to cuddle with a manatee :)Visited the Mote Aquarium with Mom and DadAlso visited the Ringling museums with Mom and Dad
Celebrated 4th of July with some new friendsVisited Lido and Siesta Key Beaches oftenOften...Learned camera operations on several different types of camerasSpent a lot of time with the Florida Highway Patrol, on the ground and in the airPlayed with new action cameras (that we attached to the wing of this plane)Witnessed K9 Unit training and spent a lot of time with friends made within the unitsGained more respect for the highway and the troopers that protect usEnjoyed my condo and wonderful neighborsSpent some time with Courtney on her vacation on Anna MariaMade a close friend, Arelan, or Ray, if you preferOffice-mom PattyProducer Don, who taught me so much. Not only about the field of film making, but about myself and life in general.

I had such a fantastic time and I look forward to visiting again and possibly moving to the area after graduation! Thank you to all who supported me this summer!

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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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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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