09.30.07
Posted in Films at 5:24 pm by Bridget Zinn
You can view There’s Something About Chocolate on my film page.
This was shot using a Kodak Easyshare V705 digital camera. Yes, that is a still camera! Our usual video camera, a Sony Mini DV, was having some issues so we thought we’d try out the video aspect of our still digital camera. You don’t get as much control as far as light sensitivity etc. goes but I think it came out pretty well. This was shot in one day, our Movie In a Day idea finally coming to fruitition, and edited over the course of the month. Barrett directed, edited and did the special effects and David created the fabulous sound track.
This movie was inspired by Madeleine’s Patisserie, the new patisserie in Madison .
We hope you like it!
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09.28.07
Posted in Book Reviews at 3:11 pm by Bridget Zinn
So so good. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, the Lizzie Bright/Newbery Honor winning guy, is absolutely fabbity fab and has all sorts of satisfying bits that gave me that wow life is a great thing feeling despite the fact that the main character has so many things going against him. It’s set in Long Island in the late 1960’s and Holling, going into the seventh grade, is sure that his teacher Mrs. Baker hates him and is out to torture him on their Wednesday afternoons together. She does, but nothing works out quite the way you expect when you read it.
There was laughing, there was crying, there were cream puffs. I’d never had one before but the description was so enticing I had to give one a try. Who knew that cream puffs were SO good?
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09.23.07
Posted in Films at 9:48 am by Bridget Zinn
David, the Sound Guy, had some technical who-si-whatsits over the weekend that kept him from finishing the sound for the film. While I’m not quite sure what he’s talking about, I do have high hopes for the film getting finished today! It is only a small thing really to sacrifice one’s birthday for the greater good of film-making and I’m sure David will look back fondly and think, if only I worked my behind off to finish a film on my birthday every year. Here’s to David, sound guy, future Scooter Baron, and Sundance 608 film addict — Happy Birthday!
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09.22.07
Posted in Book Reviews, CCBC at 2:32 pm by Bridget Zinn
Great costumes from two of our favorite CCBC Librarians at the Harry Potter party in Madison at B&N East. There’s Madame Hooch, Professor McGonagall, Professor Umbridge and me (sadly costumeless).
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09.16.07
Posted in Films at 6:53 pm by Bridget Zinn
Our latest film is going to be available online any day now. The footage has been shot (using a still digital camera due to some technical difficulties with our digital video camera, but it came out way better than we expected so it’s all good) and edited. Sound is being created as we speak (I hope!). As soon as we can get it all together and into a file, you can find it here. The title says it all… There’s Something About Chocolate. Appearances by actors from The World’s Fastest Librarian include the infamous shushing librarian, the impressed patron, and, of course, the world’s fastest librarian (me).
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