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#18 June 21: Certification research, video edits – 3 hrs 15 min

No such thing as a lazy Saturday for me, this is the longest time I have spent in one day doing work for the ICC thus far. I am in the process of continuing research on the safety component we’d like to add to our product. Also got an e-mail from Dr. Tiell this morning asking for modifications to the video I edited and sent over earlier this week. It is amazing to me how simple it is to share video clips nowadays. During my undergrad and into my broadcasting career, I would have to transfer content from Beta or a digital video recorder to VHS then send it through regular mail. Now it can all be stored in files on the cloud and sent electronically with the click of a button.

But I digress on that point. Dr. Tiell requested a shorter video than the four-minute, 34-second epic I presented. As a result, we went with a straight commercial. Two of them, actually. One was a sixty-second promo, the other thirty. I did have to do some recutting and additional voice tracking to extend it to the minute-long length that is standard in broadcasting. I was so invested in this project that I didn’t realize how much time had passed once I finished. And that is honestly what you want, to be engaged to where the world just stops and you lose track of all time. Again, once we get everything in place, I hope to be able to share the final product with you.