My One Year Anniversary Post! (…and a dorky video)

One year ago today I made my first blog post at www.sam-mallery.com. Granted, it was a pretty dull post, but it was a start. This website started out as a way for me to get more work as a production sound mixer. I ran the site for a while like this, but I thought it was kind of boring. I added the blog section to kind of liven things up with some fresh content.

This site still serves its main purpose as my location audio resume, but I’m having fun writing the blog too. I’m really glad that people are getting involved, posting comments, and saying hello.

Like my first post one year ago, there isn’t much point to this post either, but I figured I’d leave you with something. Below is a video I shot a little while ago. It was the first video I made on the Nikon D90. It’s a little how-to video for making an echo effect with two mobile phones. Check it out:

I don’t think I transcoded this footage at any point. I originally tried to upload this video to Vimeo, but it didn’t work. Then I tried YouTube, and they rejected it too. So I was forced to re-encode the file in QuickTime Pro. A lot of the quality was stripped away. Oh well. At least it exists. You’re bound to make a couple of missteps along the way, right? You may as well make when doing silly little video like this, as opposed to serious projects.

The real irony is that I didn’t bother to set up any mics when I shot this video. All of the dialog audio is from the crappy built-in mic. But hey… at least it exists.