2011 Recap
December 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
We bid goodbye to our domain name, groundglassproductions.com in November. That means it is no longer our homepage. We use this WordPress site for that, now. For our video archives and info pages, we use a variety of servers. Click on Archives in the menu above, or check the Blogroll on the right.
This year, we managed only two programs. It wasn’t pretty. Our house project kept us super busy for the first half of the year. We finally found some time to do Meatballs. Part of our program was recorded in Agawam and featured our granddaughter. She was terrific. We had to go low cost in our equipment, too. The drive back and forth to SCA in Spencer would have been prohibitive. We did our main recording using an inexpensive Aiptek camera. (It could do HD, though, which was fun.) For a microphone, we used a musician’s vocal mic and mixer combo. Audio was recorded into a Windows-based notepad style computer. For overhead shots, I shot video with my iPhone. I didn’t expect much at the end of the day and it all worked out quite nicely.
The second part of Meatballs was done in Spencer and Lee and Pam were working nicely together as usual. This time, we had some of the station’s equipment so we were on a more even keel. I though there would be problems matching the footage from the low-cost to normal (better) quality takes. It all meshed beautifully.
For the summer, we had a tornado (passed within 500 feet of the house), a hurricane, earthquake, microbursts, an freak October snowstorm that destroyed trees and kept us without power for almost a week…and Lee broke her ankle. So, with all that, the idea of being able to fit it another program was looking pretty bad. Then, Lee said we were heading out to Spencer and we were shooting, again, with Pam – bad ankle or not. (When you watch the video, you’ll see Lee sometimes sitting and sometimes standing. She’s still not completely healed.)
Despite the hardships, we’ve managed to produce Holidays 2011. It was all about buffet foods for the holidays. Nice stuff. We pulled together a 50 minute program. You can check it out on the Thyme In The Kitchen website.
Next year, we hope to have more production…assuming Planet Earth cooperates.
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