20×2 movie: secrets

Here’s my film from 20×2 Monday night. It’s about a 10 meg file, and for some reason it takes a long while to download — you might want to open it in another window or tab.
As I did last time when I did 20×2, here’s a quick summary of how I did it (less complex than last time):

  • The film was shot (poorly!) with a Sony GL2 camcorder. (At $2,000 list, it isn’t mine, of course; it’s a Dallas Morning News camera, leant to me by our Pulitzer photo genius David Leeson.) I’ve never really shot video before, and that’s fairly obvious at times. Particularly with my inability to get good sound. And with all the other people I shot whose footage was just too bad to include.)
  • The locations: The bookstore is the Half Price Books flagship store on Northwest Highway. The Mexican restaurant is the Lakewood location of La Calle Doce (seafood dishes highly recommended). The woman on the bench was sitting outside the George Allen courthouse downtown, messing with some legal papers. The Internet inventor was in an East Dallas pet store (name forgotten). Everyone else was shot in and around the Dallas Morning News building.
  • Assemblage: All done in iMovie. With assists from ScreenRecord (which recorded the Terminal sessions), Google Image Search (for all the screengrabs between shots), Quicktime Pro (for cutting down clips), and iPhoto (for imports to iMovie).

6 thoughts on “20×2 movie: secrets”

  1. Hey Josh –
    Stating the obvious here, but another fantastic job. You make it look easy! Hope you had as much fun as we did!

  2. Your movie was hilarious — one of the highlights of SXSW for me this year. Thanks for the work you did on it. Surely the stuff of 20×2 legend.

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