Comic Book City, Portland, Oregon USA

Association of American Geographers preview

As mentioned in the previous post, last Wednesday (4/13), I presented a live preview of footage from the documentary in a paper session at the 2011 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA USA. This preview includes interviews with writer/artists Dylan Meconis and Graham Annable, and a segment on race in Portland that includes creators Meconis, Kevin Moore, Sarah Oleksyk, and Sara Ryan, as well as Carl Abbott, professor of urban studies at Portland State University.

 

View on blip.tv.

 

More preview footage forthcoming

I will be presenting a live preview of footage from the documentary in a paper session at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Seattle this coming Weds (4/13). I will make that footage available after returning from the conference.

Preview footage

As I bring the film closer to completion, I thought I would post some rough preview footage. Below are two of the artist segments from the documentary before sound editing and mixing and before all graphics and animation work has been finished.

Links to the videopages on blip.tv & YouTube after the embedded videos.

 

 

Kevin Moore on blip.tv & on YouTube.

Sarah Oleksyk on blip.tv and on YouTube.

Work in progress screening

In March, I screened some work in progress footage from the documentary at a Public Library Association preconference on librarians and comics. The video portion of the presentation is posted on blip.tv.

Following the tape review

I am keeping a "tape diary" on Mediated Worlds as I review my interview footage from last summer.*

The link takes you to a TypePad archive of my old Vox blog.

Initial progress note, summer 2009

With the academic year at Western Oregon done, I am able to turn to substantial work on the documentary. The approximately nineteen hours of tape I recorded last summer have mostly been logged, there's about four hours left to go, and I will start reviewing tape next week. I will post progress reports here throughout the summer and more wide ranging discussions of the project on Mediated Worlds.

Oregon 150 short

The short doc I made for Oregon 150 is now up at blip.tv. You can also see it on YouTube.


Interim project

As you can see, there haven't been any updates since last fall, mostly because there hasn't been much to report. Reviewing and logging footage from the summer continues in fits and starts, and I hope to move onto additional photography this coming spring.

In the meantime, as part of the Oregon 150 program at Western Oregon University, I am working on a short culled from the footage from last year's 24-Hour Comic Day at Cosmic Monkey. The screening is scheduled for noon on Friday, February 13 in Hamersly Library room 107 on the WOU campus. Look here for additional information as a I complete that project.

Primary interviewing finished

Last week, I wrapped up the primary interviews for the film. In all, I have some nineteen hours of footage from the summer that will be the platform for shaping the narrative, and guiding the rest of the shoot. The final documentary should be an artistic expression of the relationship between people and place. What I've learned from my subjects is only the first step towards finding and developing that expression. First, though, is the necessary work of logging all of that tape. I want to thank everyone who participated. I also want to thank all of the people who worked as crew: Anne-Marie, Tanya, Alex, Danny, and Charley.

I've been blogging informally about the production at Mediated Worlds.

Interviews begin

Yesterday, the first interviews for the main part of the documentary were recorded. Thanks to Paul Guinan and Shannon Wheeler for their time and to Kaebel Hashitani for letting us use The Sequential Art Gallery for the afternoon. I also got to welcome Tanya Schiller and Danny Sprinkle to the crew.

UPDATE: more about this stage of production on Mediated Worlds.

Note: this link takes you to an archive of my old Vox blog.