DocsInProgressFilmFestival2010
Introduction/Definition/etc
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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