Hello Everyone,

Sorry for the delay in putting up some postings, understand that the daily work on getting these clips uploaded is full-time job for about 4 people, Josh and Melahnie have been doing it nightly while shooting and producing 4REAL in the day, all while in a foreign land with obstacles and hurdles that you can't believe. BUT we got it done and we will continue to post on a daily basis (with a few breaks here and there:)

There is so much on the go for the Direct Current Media Team. As soon as we got off the plane our brains transformed into the post-production world. The process goes something like this....

First off all we have to digitize all the tapes (so we can edit them), this is done in real time, so that means Josh has been setting his alarm every hour for the past 2 days to get up, change tapes and keep digitizing. Last i checked he was on tape 21 (of 35). Next we have to log the footage, this means watching ALL the footage, describing the scenes and scripting the dialog (with translations). Meanwhile, Rylan is doing the same thing with the DAT tapes and mini discs. Once that is done we can start hashing out the STORY. Then we can actually start the editing process. Our main goal will be do create a 30 min piece about our trip entitled 4REAL - Venezuela.

We will also create short segments for on-line viewing, DVD extras and find other ways to maximize the footage we captured. Immediately, we are working to bang out a 7 minute short about the World Youth and Student Festival. There has been no mainstream press on the event, we have the footage and we MUST bring it to the people.

Not to mention the fact that we are rolling right into pre-production for 4REAL - Brazil (with Mos Def) and 4REAL - South Africa (artists tba). We will also be rolling through Europe before the years is out. We are REALLY excited about all these opportunities and look forward to bringing them to you live and direct right here, make sure you come back daily to check up on us, tell a friend about the site and keep the movement moving.

one love

4REAL crew