We unfortunately didn’t have a shoot Monday or Tuesday, so Tuesday I started off working in the office. At first I wasn’t sure what I was going to be doing. Greg seemed to be living on the phone in the office, Michael was running around doing different things, and Petrik was just real excited because he had an enormous cookie cake left over. I believe Greg bought the cake for Mike because his birthday was over the weekend. The cake was delicious, but way too big. As I sit here writing my blog, the cookie cake still sits on the table next to me, waiting to be eaten.
I wrote my blog as soon as I came into the office, but then I got into some serious business. SolidLine is currently switching their Facebook pages from one to another. They now have vanity websites, so Greg wants everything switched to a new Facebook page for some reason. Anyway…SLM has many videos and pictures on the initial Facebook page, documenting productions and showing off some final projects from the past few years. I was given the job to re-upload these pictures and videos with the same captions, descriptions, locations, and people tagged correctly. Now, this may seem like some silly, quick job, but it is not. When you have to take 31 photo albums, along with over 20 videos, and re-upload them with the correct information, it will take a decent amount of time. I did get quite a few albums uploaded, and only 2 videos. Now, I wasn’t slacking off with the videos, we just kept having trouble uploading the videos. The Facebook page continually froze up, so all we could do was retry to upload the videos.
Check out the new SLM Facebook page and become a Fan at www.facebook.com/solidlinemedia.
We did have a shoot on Wednesday though. I was able to do some traveling again. This time, the destination was Wisconsin!!! Too bad the actual destination was Rockford, IL. I drove up to Rockford myself early Wednesday morning, but this time no McDonald’s breakfast before the road trip. I waited until the Belvidere Oasis on I-90 for my McDonald’s treat.
Well back to the drive. So I had directions to get to Greg’s house for the shoot, but there was a TON of construction on the way up there. I was half asleep, and definitely missed my detour exit that I was supposed to take. Now there is this clock tower that is connected to a hotel, or something, along I-90. It’s north of Rockford. Now the only reason that building is significant is because when I was young, my parents used to take my family to Wisconsin, and that was where we stopped for breakfast every year on our way up. I knew that clock tower was close to the Wisconsin border, so when I drove past it last Wednesday, I knew I was going to most likely be visiting the great state of Wisconsin soon. And with the construction, it seemed that a lot of the exits on the highway were closed, so I had to make a decent drive north of Rockford, just to drive back the same way to get back to Greg’s. I did find Greg’s no problem after I turned around, but I was there by myself.
Greg and Ed had taken off to go get the truck, so I was able to relax in my car and close my eyes while I waited. That nap was short lived when they arrived about 30-40 minutes later, and the real day began. Ed and I unloaded the truck and set up inside Greg’s living room to interview high school students. While unloading, I was able to get my first look at the retrofitted SolidLine Media golf cart. I should call it a luxury vehicle now. Greg and Michael had it custom fitted with turn signals, brake lights, headlights, and a horn to scare people out of their way. I must admit that it’s a pretty sweet golf cart. I still need to get a chance to get that thing to full power on the road. My day will come…
SO Ed and I set up the scene for the interviews. We set up fairly quickly, and after that, all we needed were the students to interview, but they weren’t coming for 90 minutes. While Greg was doing whatever downstairs in his home office (he said he was working…), Ed and I watched some serious Wimbledon tennis action. Both of us agreed that tennis isn’t the greatest sport. Although four students were supposed to show up, only two did. It was a bit unfortunate, but we were able to work around it. Greg actually threw me into the mix to be interviewed…saying “hey, you are a student.”
We interviewed the students, and we were able to break everything down and reload it into the truck by 3pm. Again, another smooth shoot, and another good week at SolidLine Media.
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You can contact summer intern Mike Radostits (aka “Cornbread”) at [email protected].
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