Let me start by saying....

.... Miscommunications are a bitch.......that's all I'll say on the matter. This week has been a complete and utter blur, I swear I feel so drained, yet it's not even close to being done. I still have the Batmitzvah to shoot on Saturday and the montage for it is pretty much complete. ---- Let me just say this though, you'd think that putting pictures, video and music together would be a snap.... think again. You must be thinking, c'mon how hard can it be? Well think about it this way, you have well over 150 photos, four songs, and some video to mix in. You have to create an engaging (meaning not boring people to death) montage that will WOW the family members when they see it. It's the equivalent of a Quinceañera for Latinos, so I jumped into it with that mindset. But still you ask, what's so hard? Again, not hard......tedious, time consuming work is what it is. Timing the photos and video to the music, actually giving the entire piece a nice pace that's slow enough for people to enjoy every photo, but not something that will run over 10 minutes. Oh and you sure don't want to speed through the process or you'll end up with a complete mess of a montage. Every cut, every "beat" within the montage was done for a reason. It's the beautiful art of editing....and I cannot stop saying this but I look forward to doing this FULL TIME. I know deep down I will very soon. God definitely has plans for me and I am waiting ever so patiently for those plans to surface.

Another cute baby pic to express how I feel.

So here I am at work, exporting the final cut (I hope) of the montage and looking forward to the 2 days of "peace" I have before I shoot my very first event. It's going to be one hell of an interesting day....I'm sure I'll blog about it that very night. Until then, Happy Thursday folks......Peace.

Chris Jensen-Soto
Writer/Director/Artist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3786598/


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