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Silurian-Devonian Films

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BootCampPGH was a smashing success! Alex Landefeld, representing Silurian-Devonian Tunes and nascent sister podcasts Minute Lit & Minute Lit Tech presented two sessions: "Start Podcasting Right Now!" in association with PodCamp co-founder Chris Brogan, and "Intro to Social Networking" in association with Jim Shireman of sport's podcast Sportsocracy.

 

 

Stay tuned for PodCampPittsburgh2!


Post-PodCampPittsburgh

 

At the bottom of this short blog is a link to a 5-second video in which the person is talking to me before I give my 1st presentation (he filmed it with the film feature that most "still" digital cameras have):

Mark Stroup

 

and this link is to the video I produced during the short class in which I demonstrated the simple film-making technology:

Mark at PodCamp


Minute Lit

Minute Lit - the netcast for reading and discussing the single and assembled words of literature.

Related sites:

Lyrique Tragedy Reviews and

bamboo thoughts


Silurian-Devonian Films is a nascent private film studio located on the east side of the Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area. Along with our sister organization, Silurian-Devonian Tunes we're learning to develop fun, simple films and tunes using newly available technology:

  • Apple's iMovieHD,
  • Final Cut Express,
  • GarageBand,
  • an iSight webcam &
  • a Canon DV25 digital video camera,
  • an Apple PowerBook G4 notebook w/Firewire, and
  • Google's video site for worldwide distribution.

 

We're utilizing the cool un-conference PodCampPittsburgh to both learn more about the technologies and techniques behind audio and video podcasting and to help teach others about available tools for producing these types of media content.

 

The Saturday Nov. 11th 2:30 pm session in Room 202, titled Video to Web: Shoot, Assemble, Publish to Web will be a general-audience introduction to using relatively simple (read: non-professional) technology to produce and distribute video to the Internet.

 

Alex Landefeld & Silurian-Devonian Tunes have been partially responsible, in association with Dawn Papuga of LyriqueTragedy Reviews, for producing two episodes of each of two podcasts, Minute Lit & Minute Lit Tech: "The netcast for reading and discussing the single and assembled words of literature".


So, what is "Silurian-Devonian"?

 

These two words refer to the geologic era's when salt, dolomite and limestone were deposited under equatorial seas in the region that became the Great Lakes area: "Toward the end of the period, the climate became hot and dry. As the shallow waters evaporated, they left behind salt deposits in northeast Ohio and gypsum in northwest Ohio. In Fairport Harbor and Cleveland, salt is mined from up to three miles out under the surface of Lake Erie. In Painesville, miners drill deep wells to dissolve salt with water. As the water is pumped to the surface, it evaporates, leaving behind salt." http://www.coastalohio.com/natural.asp?id=10

 

About two years ago, I, a brother and two cousins took a tour of the Cargill Salt Mine at Whiskey Island, Cleveland, Ohio ... the mine is some 1500 feet below Lake Erie. I used my DV camera to video the entire tour, and then proceeded to develop a simple documentary as my first real film, using Final Cut Express on an Apple iMac. I haven't finished & distributed the film yet...but have used the impetus of the film's subject as the name for the new film company.

 

I've since produced and distributed via video.google.com nine short films, with subject matters ranging from the bamboo in my Turtle Creek gardens to Batman (wearing Ron Weasley's hair). :-)


"One of the lessons that blogging has taught us is that content is king, not the pretty bells and whistles around the content. Although there is certainly a minimum level of quality expected by listeners, the content is what drives the show, not the benefits of shiny microphones and mixers."

 

Podcasting for the Penguin, by Jon Watson


Panel Discussion

Sunday Afternoon

Tech Concerns in Podcasting - an open panel discussion of the hardware, software and organization

needed for simple to moderate production. Are you backing up your work files?

Led by Alex Landefeld.

 

What software do you need for

audio or video podcasting?

What hardware do you need for

audio or video podcasting?

Networking Backup
* Atari

* Windows

* Mac OSX

* Linux (open source)

* Other

* Atari

* Windows

* Mac OSX

* Linux (open source)

* Other

* Cameras

* Microphones

* Home/business broadband

* hosted servers

* web service (ISP's, Google,

YouTube, iTunes, etc.)

* what to backup

* when to backup

* to CD/DVD

* to Tape

* off-site storage?

 

In the field of information technology, backup refers to the copying of data so that these additional copies may be restored after a data loss event. Backups are useful primarily for two purposes: to restore a computer to an operational state following a disaster (called disaster recovery) and to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted. Backups differ from archives in the sense that archives are the primary copy of data and backups are a secondary copy of data. Backup systems differ from fault-tolerant systems in the sense that backup systems assume that a fault will cause a data loss event and fault-tolerant systems assume a fault will not. Backups are typically that last line of defense against data loss, and consequently the least granular and the least convenient to use.

Since a backup system contains at least one copy of all data worth saving, the data storage requirements are considerable. Organizing this storage space and managing the backup process is a complicated undertaking.

Wikipedia on Backup

 

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