Work
Extremely long day at work, on Friday. I spent the morning working on the Terrus project, slowly chipping away on my assembly. It's interesting how similar editing is to carving wood. With wood, you look at a block of wood, studying it's contour and shape, trying to see the *inside* of it, what shape you're able to get out ot it. With the project, it's my job to widdle an 8 hour log and turn it into a nice looking staff. Presently, I'm hacking large peices of my footage away, making sense of things where there's nothing. It's a complicated proces and I'll probably be working on it for a while.

In the afternoon, because of the constant crashing of Premier (how I await having an Avid), I switched gears and helped out with development of the project on Canada's defense. I was assigned with research, looking for some angles to make the project more palatable for CBC. During the afternoon, I discovered that another documentary similiar to ours was airing on ichannel. It was a 5 part mini series called "A Matter of Honour" and it dealt with the fall of the Canadian military since the second world war. I told Tim this, and we had to change gears really fast. At present, the doc might be about the government's shame of our military, how they drag their feet when it comes to recognizing the acheivements. It's pretty weak, currently, but hopefully it'll be the hook that we need to convince CBC to pick it up.