Of Miles Rausch

Newsbleep 003: All’s Not Well-a In Pella

There’s a new News­bleep up! This one was recorded on a Gregg fam­ily gath­er­ing in Pella, IA, nearly under everyone’s nose (except Holli’s). That’s right. It was kinda spur of the moment, and I didn’t have a script going into it, so I just filmed stuff and con­trived a story later on, but lit­tle ideas of what I was going to do along the way.

There is an entire other web­site devoted to News­bleep: http://newsbleep.milesrausch.com. And it’s a vidcast-enabled site, so that means you can sub­scribe using iTunes or you can use any other Vid­cast pro­gram by sub­scrib­ing to the feed. And, as if that’s not enough, you can watch to the vid­casts on the web­site itself using a nifty quick­time player. To watch the video, go to News­bleep 003: All’s Not Well-a In Pella.

The week­end was neat. We first went to Hawar­den, and watched their Home­com­ing game, which they won. Marissa’s boyfriend was king, and I got a video of it, called J-Rad Is King.

Then we rose really early to drive to Coun­cil Bluffs to pick up Holli’s grandpa, Lau­ren Lead­ers. He remem­bered my name, which was neat. Even­tu­ally we made it to Pella, IA, where we watched Cen­tral Col­lege play The Knights (Wart­burg, I think) and I got this video of a touch­down, which was com­pletely by accident.

This News­bleep was inter­est­ing because I exper­i­mented with chang­ing con­texts; tak­ing a video or pic­ture that is in one con­text and then using it for another. It made writ­ing this a lit­tle chal­leng­ing in that I wanted to weave a cohe­sive story that made sense within it’s own con­text by tak­ing ele­ments out of their con­text. But, I enjoy the end prod­uct, and I really like this guerilla method of News­bleep­ing, where peo­ple have no idea what I’m film­ing them for or how I’ll abuse their likeness.

If you have a chance, watch the show Stu­dio 60 On the Sun­set Strip. It’s awe­some. Pic­tures from the week­end are in my News­bleep 003: All’s Not Well-a In Pella.