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2008 Cops for Cancer Shave Off this weekend

May 30, 2008

The 2008 Owen Sound Cops for Cancer Event
Saturday, May 31, 2008
11 am - 3 pm
shaveMix 106 parking lot - downtown Owen Sound

Come out and enjoy an afternoon of fun and excitement.

For more information please call (519) 376-6011 or The Salon at (519) 372-9398. To register, please stop by The Salon at 897 3rd Ave East in Owen Sound or at the Canadian Cancer Society office at 163 8th St. East or call (519) 376-6011 or to register online at Cops for Cancer in Grey and Bruce County.

To date, the Canadian Cancer Society’s Cops for Cancer program has raised more than $28 million across Canada!

Funds raised help the Canadian Cancer Society fund the most promising research projects in the country, provide information services and support programs in the community and advocate for public policies that prevent cancer and help those living with it.

For a recap of last years event we invite you to check out Follicle Follies, a short video we produced last summer that followed our own intrepid reporter, Adam Reese to the shaving chair.

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Written by adam · Filed Under The Area, Participation, theOwen 

The Queens Hotel Blues Full Screen

May 30, 2008

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If you would like to get a copy of the doc to go (the ipodified version as Graeme likes to call it) you can download an .mp4 version here. **the .mp4 will play in itunes and should play on your ipod video, ipod touch… (basically anything made by apple starting with i that has a video screen!)

If you have any comments on the film or on heritage buildings in general please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a microphone hooked up the the computer you can use the embedded microphone to leave an audio comment as well. Audio comments may be included in future posts/audio programming.


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Written by Ryan · Filed Under Queens Hotel, Heritage, Video, Participation, theOwen 

Here we go…

May 30, 2008

Here we go… a guest post by Graeme Bachiu

I was about to pour myself a glass of orange juice at about quarter after eight in the morning…the Saturday morning Eric Van Allen and Paul Thompson were due to show up at my apartment at nine a.m…when the phone rang. I suspected it would be Nick, my camera guy, running a bit late and giving me a courtesy call. As a good producer is wont to do, I built in some extra time in our schedule which could allow us to be late if need be.

It turns out it was Paul on the phone, an hour early. I guess the orange juice could wait; we marched down to Horton’s for the harder stuff to kill some time.

Nick, luckily, showed up a bit early, too. And he came with two coffees in his hands; one for himself and one for me. Sheepishly, I looked down at my own two coffees and wondered what the odds were that we’d buy each other a coffee at the same time. Evidently those odds are pretty good.

What happened next was a whirlwind of fifteen or sixteen hours of shooting that took us from the wilds of Welland, Ontario and Niagara College to Ajax and Pickering and along the way we jump, dove and sometimes stumbled through our memories and experiences. Nick, he of the sore upper body at the end of the day, did a masterful job of shooting in a style that often leaves editors frustrated with a lack of quality material, something Nick deftly avoided. Eric and Paul were great, too…even picking up the guitars to play a couple of times through the course of the day.

To paraphrase Stephen Stills, now begins the task I have dreaded the coming of for so long. Well, not really. I’m actually ahead of the game in terms of conceptualizing the final product. The primary version of what I’m calling Ten Years Gone will be approximately 15 minutes long in order to comply with the restrictions for a short documentary festival I plan to enter it in. Of course, the due date for this is the 20th of June, which is fast approaching.

The first step in achieving this 15 minute cut is to log your tapes, which you do after a couple of days of recuperation after your long shoot. In the old days, this would involve a VTR, your tape, a pen and a pad of paper and about 2-3 hours per tape, logging timecode numbers for good interview clips, sound, shot sequences and so forth. This was traditionally called the paper edit because you’d begin to assemble your edit (a script, actually) in a theoretical sense before you had to pay for editing time.

Non linear editing has blurred the lines of the old production model in a lot of ways, and the paper edit is one of them. Non destructive editing allows me to be less organized and more creative by trying things in the editing process. I’m actually still rather organized; instead of logging all of my material on a pad of paper I do it directly into my Mac now (at work we call this the ingesting stage) and after a few hours of this I can begin to do rough edits. The downside is—and this is where the quote from Stills is pertinent—the process can get hopelessly stretched and extended when you’ve got a fluid deadline and millions of options available to you…which is the point at which I now find myself.

With June 20th fast approaching I quickly built a few sequences I thought were of interest, quickly amassing nine minutes of my total run time without touching on the last half of the raw material. So while I may be ahead of the game as far as the concept is concerned I’m behind the eight ball when it comes to brevity and squeezing the most out of every frame I can.

To illustrate my points, here I am as my video alter-ego explaining some of the other distractions present in day to day life and giving an example of one of the sequences likely—hopefully—to make the final cut of Ten Years Gone. As always, comments are appreciated at old.north.prod@gmail.com.

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Written by Ryan · Filed Under Guest Post, Music, Video, theOwen 

Employee Regulations Seminar

May 30, 2008

June 12, 2008
9:30 amto1:30 pm

Employee Regulations Seminar

Thursday June 12, 2008
9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library
824 1st Avenue West, Owen Sound
SPACE IS LIMITED - PLEASE REGISTER EARLY

The Business Enterprise Centre – Owen Sound & Area presents a FREE Employee Regulations Seminar for New and Existing Small Businesses

Specialists from Both Canada Revenue Agency and Service Canada will be presenting the following topics:

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Deducting, Remitting and Reporting Payroll

Service Canada (Formerly Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
• Employment Insurance & How to Complete a Record of Employment

To register for these free sessions contact:
The Business Enterprise Centre – Owen Sound & Area
173 8th Street East, Owen Sound
519-371-3232 or email businesshelp@e-owensound.com

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Written by Ryan · Filed Under Business, Events 

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