{"id":935,"date":"2017-10-12T05:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=935"},"modified":"2018-02-08T05:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T05:35:53","slug":"our-rod-serling-film-festival-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Our Rod Serling Film Festival Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_934\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-934\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-934\" src=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2017_1008_RodSerling3725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2017_1008_RodSerling3725.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2017_1008_RodSerling3725-300x244.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2017_1008_RodSerling3725-768x624.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winner Rod Serling Film Festival<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that my daughter&#8217;s decision to enter the filmmaking category in her school&#8217;s art festival was that last year only 1 person entered in her age group &#8212; so scoring at least a certificate\u00a0was within reach.<\/p>\n<p>However, the rules are very strict about parental involvement and if my kid is anything it&#8217;s that she&#8217;s afraid to break rules. So we had to draw a line regarding where I could help and where she was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>I decided she could use an old MacBook (&#8220;the white one&#8221;) since it had iMovie. I had no\u00a0idea how iMovie worked, but I threw together some random film clips and photos and then added some transitions. Boom! A movie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKPiCafpOQY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I showed it to her, and said gave her some advice how to move around clips.\u00a0She went out and shot the clips on an old Nikon point and shoot, and I uploaded them &#8211; then it was all her.<\/p>\n<p>One day I heard her talking into the screen mic, and after I asked what she was doing &#8211; a voiceover. Yes, she was dubbing out some dialogue. I had no idea that was possible.<\/p>\n<p>In the end she did get her award from the local and then later the regional PTA.\u00a0 We then found that the local PBS station was having a Rod Serling Film Festival, as Mr. Serling is a Binghamton hometown hero, so we entered it there since it had a Twilight type of intro.<\/p>\n<p>About the film &#8212; I saved this for last &#8212; I don&#8217;t claim to get it or even know if there was something to get, but when we went to the awards people we didn&#8217;t know ran up to her to tell her how much they enjoyed it, and she beamed. So that&#8217;s better than any certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that my daughter&#8217;s decision to enter the filmmaking category in her school&#8217;s art festival was that last year only 1 person entered in her age group &#8212; so scoring at least a certificate\u00a0was within reach. However, the rules are very strict about parental involvement and if my kid is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[160,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}