Be sure to come out to the Brattle Theater Wednesday evening for this great event, and see what we’ve all come up with for this years entry. The evening begins at 6:30pm with a BBQ, and doors to the theater will open at 7:30. Besides the contest, the programmers show some of their favorite trailers – ranging from hilariously awful to extremely good (The Shining trailer anyone?). It’s one of my favorite annual Brattle events.

If you haven’t seen my trailer from last year, here it is:

Hope to see you Wednesday night at the Brattle!

I cut together some of the footage I got January 20, 2009, of our little trip from the Hotel to the Mall. It gives you a little perspective of what it was like to be down in D.C. during the inauguration of President Obama. Enjoy the footage! This is the final video of the Road Trip for Obama web project, from here, I’ll be using this footage in a future documentary that I’m working on. I thank everyone for tuning in, and I appreciate all the comments and well wishes we got during the project.

Once we got on the train, it was an hour ride, when we got out, it was a sea of people walking towards the mall. Then the long wait till the ceremony began. The amount of people as you looked around was staggering, the excitement and energy was moving. I shot most of the reactions of the crowd during the speech.

When I set out to do this project, I knew that the main part of the film was to get different perspectives, but the eventual documentary I’d like to make has been evolving as I’ve been going through this experience. I have an idea of the finished product, and will start working on it as I return home.

It’s been a very long day, I digitized all my footage but haven’t been able to cut a little recap of it. Look for that in the next few days. Tomorrow I leave early for home. This has been an eye-opening experience that I’ll remember the rest of my life.

I thank you all for sharing it with me.

“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”

-President Barack Obama

We’ll be up EXTREMELY early tomorrow to get over the subway, and hopefully be on one of the first trains in to get our spot on the National Mall. I’m going to try and post some pictures via my phone here on the blog so check back tomorrow, and be sure to watch history from wherever you are tomorrow.

I cut together a little highlight reel of what we saw yesterday at the inaugural concert! Like I said in the previous blog post, it was an amazing scene, though we were fairly far back, it was great to share the experience with so many other people. We’ll be going in the city today to shoot some b-roll, tomorrow is going to be an amazing day, we can’t wait.

The crowd started from the Lincoln memorial, and continued past the Washington Monument. Following President-Elect Obama’s speech, Bruce Springsteen took the stage with Pete Seeger and sang “This Land is Your Land.” It was moving to hear the crowd join the chorus. I’m glad we came early to witness this, it got me even more excited for Tuesday.

I captured much from my P.O.V, I’ll be posting that tomorrow morning. For now, here’s some pictures to check out.

Hagerstown was an interesting place, the people we talked to had a lot to say about how much has changed for the different social classes in this country. Hagerstown was a place where you could definitely see how things have hurt small business and the working class.

Gettysburg is a beautiful city that has done an excellent job of preserving its past. We spoke to a few individuals we ran into about what they think of the current state of the country, and where they’d like to see us go.

Here’s a few quick snapshots from my iPhone of a statue of Lincoln in front of David Wills‘ home, where Lincoln put the finishing touches to what would become one of the most famous and most quoted speech’s by an American President, of course I’m talking about the Gettysburg Address. I thought stopping here would be quite poignant to our journey, and I’m glad we did!

Also some great news, a project called “Change in Command,” has featured our videos on their Vimeo channel, and on their website. Their asking “what the inauguration means to you,” a question we’ll also be asking once we get to D.C. check them out!