The Joys of Video

I wasn't exactly thrilled by this assignment. COMS 333 and 473 pretty much killed any movie-making joy I had. Hours spent at the video lab in front of massive monitors as Media 100 clunked around, followed by my partners and I mentally losing it as said Media 100 crashed again, topped with panicked phone calls to our professor resulting in him coming to the lab and no doubt thinking "why did I let these idiots take my class???).

These are my lasting impressions of making a movie.
And now I've gotten to a great start with this project.

The batteries to my digital camera are D.E.A.D. The charger to the dead batteries has been MIA since Thanksgiving. I've been meaning to go to BestBuy, but ehhh...me so lazy.

So yesterday I shimmy into BestBuy in Rockville to get my charger. And the nice man at BestBuy tells me that they have no chargers in stock and none of the other stores in the nearby area do either. They will however order the part and ship it to me within 10 days.

I buy a new battery that BestBoy ASSURES me is fully charged and ready to use.

I get my 'actors' into position and start shooting. And what to my wondering eyes should appear, but the low battery sign!!!

I. hate. video.