Cynematik • Cyndi Greening

I wanted to update you on how things are going here in Utah. I am a T.A. for Jeff’s class this semester (MCC graduate Jordan Pack is taking it) and loving the teaching opportunities.

As for my own projects, myself and my writing buddy bought a Panasonic DVX100a in May of last year, and paid it off pretty quick with about 4 wedding videos. We shoot a lot of corporate videos, weddings, live events and love the new multi-cam feature on FCP. We time-code sync multiple DVX’s together and then line them up automatically in FCP, allowing us to switch between angles in real time. It saves us so much time in editing and our videos look pretty dang good. The DVX is an awesome camera, and it has been good to really get to know it inside and out. I also used it to shoot all of the behind the scenes footage for Mr. Dungbeetle. That really helped me to know the camera better, since most of the shoot was outside, in the mountains, under all kinds of weather conditions and a week and a half of night shoots.

I check your blog daily and love to hear about the newest news (CLG comment: They know how to make me happy!) in indie filmmaking. Your podcasts from sundance have been great, and have made me jealous. Between school, finishing up mr. dungbeetle, and pre-pro on Togther Again, I didn’t have time to sundance this year. I did have a ticket for michel gondry’s film “science of sleep” but got stuck behind an accident on I-15 that made me irreparably late for it. I am still upset about it.

You have always been and will continue to be the guru of independent film production knowledge and I appreciate all the help and experience I gained while at MCC. It’s exciting to see what my Mesa peers are working on and would love to see SHATTERED when it’s finished.

Anyway, that’s my update. Not too shabby I suppose, thanks to great teachers like you and Jeff Parkin who have inspired me and given me opportunites to learn, teach and grow. I’d like to send you a dvd of the work I’ve been doing, so if you could email me back your address then I can send you one with all my short films, commercials and a Mr Dungbeetle trailer. Thanks for all that you’ve done for me and so many other students. You are great. (CLG comment #2: Jared was diligent, determined and creative student. Sometimes they give us the credit but it’s really their hard work that pays off … we just open the door for them!)