Quest for Pastrami
Here is my long-delayed video assignment for Comm Lab, I made it with Jack Aboutboul and it is called "Quest for Pastrami".
Find it here: http://villamil.org/movies/pastrami.mov
It was all shot in my neighborhood, features the now-defunct Second Ave. Deli and Katz Deli, and of course, a pastrami sandwich.
The story is simple: searching for a pastrami sandwich on the Lower East Side. The Second Ave. Deli is now closed, so we have to go down to Katz Deli on Houston St., passing a variety of different ethnic restaurants and food shops on the way.
The music is mostly from the Klezmatics and the Amsterdam Klezmer band, and contributes pretty much all of the emotional impact of the piece.
I shot in HDV with a Sony A1J and used an Audio-Technica 835ST mike. Edit in Vegas Video 7.0, which now works *very* well with HDV, practically realtime. I only added a slight S-shaped color curve, in addition to the Cinegamma that the camera applies.
There were only two of us - no additional camera person. Given that constraint, it looks OK.
Comments
My laptop stutters like mad trying to play that HD ;-).
That's that famous restaurant, right, it was in when harry met sally, I think?
I was there in '92 when I was in NY for new years ;-)
Sorry to write in your school blog, just wanted to say its nice to see your smiling face!
Posted by: Victor. | November 27, 2006 08:07 PM