The Prop

 So did filming all day yesterday.  We have changed the name of the Youtube series to "Sparrow's House".  House, being my head with 7 rooms...a room for each alter.  And our catchy sign off after each episode will be "fly safe"...as in a bird (Sparrow).  That was my brain child...fly safe.  

We did one take, and it was almost perfect...we were so happy, then the advocate saw that I had not turned on the microphone...the entire take was in silence!!!!  fuck me!!!  

After that retake, and retake, and retake, there will be so much editing....I never even imagined all the tedious work in filming.  WOW...I have a new respect for actors, directors, producers etc.....

But the very first finished video, will be sloppish..but as we go along, it will become more fluid and better, as we learn the equipment and get on a rhythm.  

It is an introductory of our series, and introduction of me,  Kevin..aka cowboy...and even Boomer.  Boomer will do cameo and sightings all through the series....

I am still very shy of the camera.  I DO NOT LIKE BEING ON CAMERA.  I use to do interviews for news outlets that were televised for the dog park in Oklahoma, and I hated every single one.  I hate the way I look on camera, and I hate the way my voice sounds on camera.   I am definitely a "behind the scenes" kinda girl.

My advocate wants me to do a "Sparrow sighting" with each video.  A quick shot of me. For example, while he is speaking I may take him a cup of coffee and then I would be seen giving him a cup of coffee.   Quick glimpses like that.   When we shoot outside my apartment, then I will be in more videos, not talking, but being there.  He wants to do some footage at cemeteries (which I love to go to), but it will only show me from a short distance among the tombstones....and other places with shots like that that are indicative to the topic.   But I really do not want to talk or even give direct eye contact to the camera.  The main character of this video series is not me, but my advocate.  I am the co-star or extra...

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I am the prop...the broken down car in a garage...that the mechanic is working on...the house shown after a tornado hits it....shattered broken, scattered all over...the story about the tornado, the house collateral damage...the prop.   That is me....The Prop.

S

PS  I am not sure who wrote that last "Prop" entry.  I did not write it, but whoever did, did not leave their name or initial....