I am very happy to announce I have been hired to run an after-school filmmaking program for the Bay Area Video Coalition in Oakland. It is a dream job: working with creative and passionate teen filmmakers, traveling with them to national youth media conferences, and operating within a supportive and vigorous non-profit organization. My hours of employment are Monday to Friday 12-7, so I'm hoping to edit in the morning. It will slow things down a bit, but I am enlisting the help of some ex-students  to work on sound and After Effects. Hopefully I will be extra motivated now that someone else is working on the post-production with me.

I've got 18 silent rough cut minutes done. This version looks to be about thirty. I'm scared to actually go back and look at what I've done - I'm just tacking one scene to the next. There has been some nice surprises regarding how shots fit together and I've made a number of productive discoveries. My biggest concern is tone: it bounces between depression, elation, anxiety, etc constantly. How do I make it all feel organic and unified, especially with so many different aesthetics? I'm just going to get to the end of this cut, then see what I've got.