DocsInProgressFilmFestival2010

 

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A first time visit to DocsInProgress

Film Festival showing class project

short clips this time about Silver Spring

community, businesses, perhaps

making it easier to hire, or whatever...

 

20100724 7.33 am Jerry

 

 

 

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htpp://DocsInProgress.org

specifically this event,

http://docsinprogress.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=69&jevtype=jevent&year=2010&month=07&day=23&Itemid=1

but links tend to move...

 

Turned out to be a Full house,

I'd RSVP'ed with a couple of names

of people I told about it, last minute,

using first name and last initials only,

but they didn't show.

DocsInProgress use ConstantContact,

ARGH, which I find very intrusive

(see VOCALUseOfConstantContact  etc)

but they don't really have enough info
on to find others.

 

Me on the other hand they wanted
email and zip, requested optional address,

titles, Business,  etc...

Truely marketing software, instead of

something appropriate for disabled

and patients, etc

 

Some good stuff shown, IMO,

I especially liked the kids summer camp ones,
Ruff Times (pet store?)
Candy shop Vsomething
and the Skateboarding Park one.

They could have used an address

or map of the places presented,

the assumption was people knew already,

and ironically I know the area,

just very long time ago, so they

are probably new kids on the block,

literally, to me...

 

The others with I'll Be In The Garden or similar was good too,

and I think I passed the gardening publishers' house on the way
to the festival (stuff overflowing sidewalk, one thorny too,

snip snip/ edit edit??), since with the heat and learning the local

bus system, Ride Ons, I ended up walking extra distances,

from the main campus to satellite buildings,

the Cavitz is on the Georgia Avenue side

of the railroad track (same side as SSDIC)

[by Christfields' Seafood,

I was going to take my Dad back there...]

and not most of the campus, so a short walk

through an alley, over the bridge

(skipping through the woods... 8-/) ,

and found it better.

 

No wonder the WMATA.com site was

giving Georgia Avenue buses up from the

city (too crowded and slow for me),

and rarely back from Silver Spring MetroRail

(currently under construction with a new transit

center hole in the ground, coming in sometime

likely in the distant future...)

I had to use online estimates of how long it would

take travel time wise, to see if it was worth attempting...

 

The shoe repair shop guy clip was in Spanish with subtitles,

wondering how difficult that was to learn to do...

 

and Knock on Wood Dance Studio were a little depressing,
as some businesses are having problems / going out of business,
not those right now, but the dance one shut down one program
and laid off someone who was present...

I could have suggested  a little dance number on stage
after the video presentation, or short kid TaDa!

 

I've probably forgotten some too...  Tired, 2+ hour commutes each way,
but took rail for most of it.  Some difficulty finding the right Ride On bus
from Silver Spring MetroRail (said 18 on the trip route,

but was late, so trying to find another way,

and a nice woman pointed me towards something else,

a 17 Bus, some bus drivers were not so helpful,

"No, not this one", several times

as someone who looks like I do with bike stuff

and bags, but I seemed to amuse the likely homeless

hanging out on the bus benches...)

and walked back instead of trying

to find another bus..  It was a little cooler,
and not as time crunchy for a start.

Biking avoids all that, but to a first visit,

might not make it in the doors,

and where to put my "Inline Personal Mobility Aid"

like with ExtraordinaryMeasuresScienceInCinemaAndAFIAccommodating ...

 

I think they do local non profits and businesses
I might suggest they do one on SSDIC?

The shorts were about commercial length
or a little longer, all 6-8 only took 2 hours
with social time built into the beginning,

some brief intro time, a video clip playing about

DocsInProgress, talking to the people involved,

possibly breaking it up into smaller groups on stage/

lecture hall front, and then close down time,

I wasn't even up for much mingling, usually aren't,

so maybe 10 minutes each, at most.

 

I wonder if they are teaching production for hire skills,

deadlines the most difficult to learn, several seemed to say,

or just trying to survive, doing local businesses,

as part of the community, I wonder what partnership

could be made with the local community college,

this time hosting, but clearly some overlay/

and overlap doesn't already exists, the host

mentioning they started planning this when

it was snowing outside...

 

In Will Write For Food Writers Group

they/ we would give little writing projects,

exercises and people's skills would come

out somehow, riffing on something small,

instead of being overwhelmed

with the complexity

of what the writers wanted to say,

sometimes their life story,

especially after our losses,

or The Great American Novel,

or expose on corruption in DC Housing,

but mostly ranting on some business

or program that treated them badly

(shop clerks are a fav,

and I'm partial to taking down the snobbishness

at Trade Joe's in Georgetown...),

but turns out Street Sense wouldn't publish

something like that,

they made it a positive view on homelessness,

which I though mostly a lie,

or PR for the funders/ sponsors, or cowardly,

not doing the real stuff...

 

But very few read this website,  so maybe

it's easier and more profitable to do good news???

And the Good News Bible is such a hit

<grin>...

 

So when question time came up,

festival style they did three film clips

and then questions, I asked a couple of things,

"What was the most difficult part?",

and "What are you planning to do next?"

 

One woman had already touched on her

future plans and a filming student showed up

late (many people involved didn't show up at all,

but the place was packed to people sitting in the isles

and the woman MC'ing, Exec Dir, mentioned people

need to run their businesses, etc),

wondering if they were even going

to consider my questions, the attitude

of the one person on stage at the time was getting thick...

And you think actors are tough...

 

One young woman wants to do something on

Happiness and several people responded to her,

afterwards, I don't want to spoil peoples'

plans, so you will have to go back and see

how things turn out...

 

I did mention afterwards that I'm clinically

depressed, but that didn't seem to stop

the need for subjects and people to interview,

but I'm camera shy, don't want to be on camera,

and even had to try dodging the photographer

early on, said I didn't want ot be in it,

and like Autreat annoyed at the times

interrupting when I had to try covering

up to avoid likely photos coming out..

 

At the same time, I'm taking a few of

those on stage, assuming they are up

there to get some PR/ Press...

 

Anyway, I'd heard about DocsInProgress

when visiting a Takoma Park Folk Festival

some time back, maybe a year to two years ago,

and wanted to go to the one in GWU

but missed that due ot scheduling and energy levels.

This one much further from Virginia, and

before other stuff later today, plus the heat,

but glad I did...

 

Some Public Access stations have

equipment and I had checked with the DC TV

some long time ago, when visiting for the Franklin Shelter

politicians when Barry took the seat

when I had wheel chair, up for the bathroom, etc

post taxi over my feet incident,

most likely, but didn't work out, some issues

on anonymity and possibly residency

they want to know who is using /

borrowing their equipment, so might

have to do it with my own, and self publish,

YouTube is full of stuff...

 

I'm rambling more with little sleep,

a usual scenario, all the energy running

to stuff, and little taken to actually write

stuff up well, most of what is on NoVAPeers

are just drafts, never edited much,

rough cuts, if you will,

but wanted to get something out quickly

about the event and organization,

as I'm not currently aware of any like it

in NoVA, and would want to make

some videos on topics of my choice,

instead of offered by teachers,

and am still concerned about the cost

of a class, being affordable for moi and others,

but learned some things

along the way...

 

Oh, and sorry to the kid I had to decline

an interview on camera, I should have

just offered a quote instead,

some at Street Sense used to think I was good

at sound bites...

 

_Insert Sound Bike / Video Clip Here_

8-/

 

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