Movie Trailer

Will we ever finish editing the full movie? Stay tuned…

production photos

At long last, here are a few choice shots from the production process…

fun with final cut

So I’ve been spending a lot of time with this guy…. Many, many hours have been spent in the amazing world of the Final Cut Pro tutorials, with expert Larry David. I’m learning a ton about workflow, editing, effects, compression, color correction, audio, the works.

progress

We’ve been super busy shooting the film over the past couple weeks, so we haven’t been blogging too much… but we do have a few production photos… we’ll get them posted asap!

how to search copyright

The working title for our film is “Wasted Beauty: Understanding Spam Poetry” — can we use this title? Looks like it’s fair game for us. Here’s how to look up copyright:

http://www.copyright.gov/records/

Introduction

We are Mary-Jo Valentino and Jessie Rauch-Dickson; two graphic design graduate students at RISD developing a short film about the phenomenon of “Spam Poetry” as our open research project for Wintersession Jan-Feb 2007. This blog will serve as our process documentation as we research and develop the project.