Hey guys –
With the launch of Donehue Direct, I’m going to quit using this blog and concentrate on building the new business site. Please check me out at www.donehuedirect.com/blog for new daily videos.
I’m going to start concentrate a lot more on strategy, so you won’t want to miss it.
That’s www.donehuedirect.com/blog.
Take it easy,
Wesley
You asked for it. Here it is.
After playing with the iPad for over 48 hours, here are my thoughts.
My adventure to get an iPad on the morning of its big release. Long lines? Am I too late?
Sorry folks…no Happy Hour today. In leaving Under The Power Lines, I lost most of my equipment. However, I’ve ordered a whole bunch of new toys and they’re slowing trickling in.
I couldn’t have been more proud to sit in the back of the room and watch Jim DeMint during his speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee. This was a quite Congressman I met in 2003 — hired as the fourth staffer on his primary campaign — who has become a national rock star. He’s done good work, but what’s amazing is that he’s become this rock star for a very simple reason: He tells the truth and sticks to his beliefs.
It’s both exciting and sad to see. It’s exciting to see someone like Senator DeMint become so popular, but it’s sad that he’s become popular for something as simple as sticking to our party’s principles. That goes to show how far our party and our nation have gotten off track.
While our party needs people to reach across the aisle to form compromises, it must have a large contingent of people to drive it to the right. If all we have are moderates who compromise, our nation will surely go to the left. By recruiting and standing beside leaders like Marco Rubio and Chuck DeVore, Jim DeMint forces our party to the right, which forces the moderates to compromise far less of our conservative values.
We need to compromise to move our nation forward, but we don’t need to sell the entire farm. Senator DeMint is one of the only people in Washington reminding us of that. Here’s where the rubber meets the road – you need both moderates and conservatives to get proper legislation passed while in the majority and put the breaks on Democrats’ free-spending ways while in the minority.
I’m pretty jacked to be taking a video editing class with State Senator Kevin Bryant. Senator Bryant was the first legislator to blog in SC and maybe he’ll take to vlogging like me. Here’s what our class is all about:
Class Description:
This class is an introduction to basic professional video recording and editing. It covers the basics of lighting, use of cameras, capturing and editing video in Final Cut and exporting video projects for the web and DVD. It’s a great starting point for anyone wanting to learn about making music or corporate videos.
Class Syllabus:
Class 1 – Introduction to video production and overview of class. Current state of the industry and assessment of students’ interest and experience.
Class 2- Cameras – Examine cameras, formats, form factors, and usage. We’ll cover manual settings, stabilization, framing, composition, and capture basics.
Class 3- Lighting, sound. – An introduction to location lighting and sound. We’ll cover the basics of 3 point lighting for interview as well as how to get the best of natural light and when to use artificial lighting. We’ll also cover on site sound recording an getting the best natural sound.
Class 4 – Shoot day. – We will shoot an actual subject for interview and music performance. This will be a practical application of Classes 1-3.
Class 5 – Capture, editing – This will be an intro to capturing and editing in Final Cut. We will actually capture the video from shoot day and go over basic edit techniques and tips.
Class 6- Post production. – We will cover rendering formats, post processing, and practical delivery methods. Topics will include youtube and flash embedding techniques as well as how to get your video seen on the internet.
Class 7- Video Business – We will talk about the video business, what jobs or opportunities are out there and how to explore your interest in making money with video, how srart a business with video and practical tips for running a video business.
Class 8- Recap, exam and viewing day – We will view the class projects and recap what we’ve learned. Final exam.
Let’s hook up at CPAC next week. I’ll be there Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Activists across the nation are calling into Massachusetts this weekend to help Scott Brown’s campaign for US Senate. Republicans are finally getting it and creating the online tools for grassroots action. And I’m PUMPED about it.
