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Christian Action Network
FOREST VA – Christian Action Network
leaders sat down with a video production expert Thursday, Nov. 8, to
talk out preliminary details for a full-length documentary on
Muslims of America. CAN President Martin Mawyer said he hopes
to pull together about 20 hours of original footage contributed by
field activists and CAN technical coordinator, Martin’s son Michael
Mawyer. “That’s the first step in this thing –
and it’s good to look at it step by step,” Stone Blue Productions
President Jeremiah Guelzo said. The documentary project seeks to provide
a wide audience with fully researched material on Muslims of the
Americas and alleged ties to Jamaat ul-Fuqra terrorists and past
terrorist violence. Also part of the project is commentary on
the terrorist threat in general in the U.S. and Canada, a calling to
Americans north and south of shared continental borders to protect
the peaceful and prosperous society we enjoy because of our
freedoms. Guelzo said his studio could begin work
on “rendering” the raw footage, processing it to a series of hard
drives. From there, a session of highly technical conversation took
place between Guelzo and Michael Mawyer. “I switched to Avid because most TV and
Hollywood uses it,” Michael Mawyer Told Guelzo. “The Avid ‘Mojo’
helps in capturing video without dropping frames, and it’s higher
quality.” “I see your point, we just have had a lot
of success with Sony Vegas, we moved from Adobe Premier and found
Vegas to work real well for us,” Guelzo replied. At one point, Martin Mawyer leaned over
to his son and said, “What you’re trying to explain to me right
there is beyond me, but as long as you know what you’re talking
about, that’s okay.” The sentiment matched Guelzo’s point as
head of a full-service production company in Virginia. “I can tell
you what you’ll need if you tell me what you’re looking for as an
end result,” he said. Production background helps include use
of news segments possibly from companies such as Creatas Footage or
Getty Images. “Explain to me Getty Images,” Martin
Mawyer said. “You mentioned watermarking?” Guelzo explained the segments can be
edited into the documentary with watermarked feed – so it’s placed
as desired. “Only what you need in is paid for, and they provide the
non-marked copy for final production,” Guelzo said. “We’ll do voiceover in a studio,” Margin
Mawyer said. “I’m looking to have a woman’s voice on basic factual
context stuff, then any commentary or opinion stuff would be said by
me.” Once the footage is “dumped” onto hard
drives, CAN would have a digital system for moving through the
footage and noting segments for use. “If you’d like a segment, such as 32
minutes, 15 seconds to whatever, like 33 minutes, 38 seconds, then
that would be marked for pulling to a new file,” Guelzo said. “I want to start editing this thing, I
wish we could do that right now – narrow our footage down to 30 or
40 minutes from, what, the 20 or so yours of raw footage we have,”
Martin Mawyer said. The program, process, technical equipment
and domain names and terms would be left to Guelzo and Michael
Mawyer. CAN plans include a teaser, or trailer,
of five to eight minutes length, ready before February. The full
documentary would be planned for a March 2008 finish date.
PRESS
RELEASE
CONTACT:
11/10/07
Martin Fisher
www.ChristianAction.org
434-237-8201
CAN seeks producer input for documentary
Christian Action Network leaders sit down with a video production expert to discuss details for putting documentary pieces together