Every time I start to think about doing another set I shake my head at the fact that I'm about to jump back into the fray. You'd think I'd learn my lesson one of these days, right?
First of all, hope you had a great holiday weekend, and took advantage of the fact that summer returned, especially here in the UP. I know I sure did. I played outside as much as I could, and for a few precious hours each days did something that was strange--
I did nothing. And with the way my life is going these days, we all know how weird THAT is.
But when I was doing something, one of those “somethings” was to begin work on season five (5!) of those "Pieces of the Past" videos I make for the Marquette Regional History Center. The videos are a ton of work to put together, although in the end both the comments I get from people and the creative satisfaction I get out of seeing the finished product almost makes that work worth it. In a way, they're kind of what someone once told me about having children--when you're in the process of popping them out you never want do it again.
But as soon as you see them, you know it was worth it.
Not having any kids, I'll take their word for it, but I kinda understand the point they're trying to make. It seems like it's very much like the reaction I have when I'm about to tackle another set of the videos, and I'm hoping I get the same reaction with this series. There will be twelve of them this time around, a slightly smaller number than normal, but for a good reason--the first and the last of them are what I'm calling "epics". The debut episode will be a video version of my "...And Put Up a Parking Lot" tour, and it's looking like it'll be 15 minutes or so long.
That, however, is nothing compared to what I'm planning for the final one, which will be at least half an hour and deal with the history of grocery stores in Marquette. I'm actually interviewing people for this one, and I haven't finished that portion of it yet, so at this moment I have no idea how long it'll be.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed it won't be, like, three hours or anything. And it wouldn't surprise me if it actually isn't part of the “season” and, instead, becomes something else altogether.
We'll see.
I'm getting a little help on a few of them, as well. My pal Emily, who runs the History Center's social media accounts and (briefly) made me a Tik Tok star last year, has been shooting a bunch of B-Roll (background footage) with a Steadicam she has. And as I'm starting tp put the parking lot epic together I have to admit that her work bumps these little things up a notch in quality. She was originally just shooting B-Roll for the “Parking Lot” piece, but I'm trying to incorporate her stuff in as many pieces as I can.
We'll see how it all turns out.
I have no idea when these will debut. but I'm looking forward to sharing the big stories I previously mentioned, along with a bunch of shorter ones on topics ranging from the DSS&A railroad to JD Pierce school to the incredibly strange (but true) story of Marquette's favorite old-time lady of the night. The end product, I'm sure, will be something about which I'll be quite proud.
The putting together of the end product, as I'm doing now? Well, that might be a pain in the butt for a while. We'll just have to see how much it compares to, say, childbirth.
Or so I've been told.
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