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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JushALsHLB0] "Would you tell me which way I ought to go from here?" asked Alice. "That depends a good deal on where you want to get," said the Cat. "I really don't care where" replied Alice. "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go," said the Cat. - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), novelist and poet (1832-1898) This perfectly reminds me of the process of editing this video reel. I've had a great many deal of ideas of how I wanted to lay out my newest editor reel. While I may not have accomplished everything I set out to do or said…

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/21211359] - Looking for a Light in the Dark - *note: I had a change of heart while writing this post, and decided "Seeking a Light Within the Dark" was better! I decided to enter a purely editing video contest, as did several other people I know. When I saw the subject material, theme, + stock footage all together, I really wanted to sit on my idea for a night or so. The stock footage was honestly shot quite nicely. I felt the excitement coursing through my veins looking at nice pans and racking focus and interesting angles (can we say Dr. Who diagonals?…

Hope everyone had a lovely New Years! I am feeling quite hopeful and more positive about this year vs. 2010. In order to get the ball rolling, I've been doing several things to make myself more confident, happy, and healthy. This is not any part of any New Year resolution mind you - I started these things in December and back in October in fact. There's always a project looming in the distance. Perhaps you've wanted to do a tutorial or re-cut your reel, try something new, or enter a film festival or contest. It's something you've said time and time "I want to do...*insert*"…

I'm not speaking about the type of resolutions where you quit smoking, lose weight, stop eating junk food, etc. however good those may be. Nay, I'm speaking about the resolutions I made to myself the beginning of 2010 of goals and things I wanted to do for my video related interests. While I don't have a physical list of this because I just sort of mentally made it and now I shall rattle them off as I think of them. 2010 Resolutions Participate in a contest/festival - Check 48 Hour Film Festival came to Indianapolis in August 2010. Our 48 hour film was a bigger…

Oh my! I intended to keep this updated at least once a week, but December has not been my friend as of late. However, I shall move past my little break in posts to talk about a few upcoming things! Firstly, via my video cohort & friend Kylee Wall, we discovered our little group Pants Cannon Media was featured in the Informatics IUPUI Fall 2010 Magazine as seen here: What's funny about all this is we had no idea we were even in the magazine. Wish they would have included a picture or maybe not separated the names with…

On Kylee's recommendation, I'm going to make a cute Holiday greeting using Adobe CS After Effects (I have both CS3, CS4, & CS5 on my computer, but I'm going with CS5 here) and some magic. I kid, with some hard work and luck I'll put together a snowglobe with snow. First, I visited a tutorial located on the best of the best CreativeCow by Rob Mize. It's a video tutorial, which should make following along a bit easier. I'm very excited to try this out, and I need to seriously warm up/brush up on my AE skills as it's been a little while since I cracked…

If you don't know who that is, let me enlighten you. Phillip Bloom is a DP, Director, & Filmmaker. You can find him on Twitter as well. He's all around pretty awesome when you check out his blog, his gear store, etc. I was talking to my video cohort Kylee when she suggested we try to shoot something around Indy in his style. There's really no good way to define his style without sounding like a complete babbling idiot or missing something. Rather, I'll link you a video to watch so you can get a feel for it. There's something I really love about his…

Hello there! I modestly introduce myself, Katie Toomey, as a video editor in the little land known as Indianapolis, IN. Please see my About Me page to get acquainted. You are welcome to add me via social network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. and don't forget to check out my Portfolio! I'm going to be writing about video related interests, experiences, news in the video world, or tutorials I try out. I hope you will find it interesting and offer any advice or comments as you come across my posts. To start today off, I've really been wondering about the job market for video…