The Most Important Video I've Ever Made.

Hey Guys,

Today is Project 4 Awesome on youtube. It's a day where 1000's of people upload videos about charities.

Well I joined the crowd, but instead of a charity my video is about one man.
Some of you here know him. He is an artist, Luis Sanchez. And his work is amazing.



Luis is looking for a kidney donor, he's been on dialysis almost 3 whole years now. Which is too long.

Help Luis Find an O+ Donor

Here's what you can do to help

• Post this video on facebook, myspace, your blog, twitter, digg, stumbleupon, etc
• leave comments on the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlqV3CjpdRw (the more comments it gets, the higher it gets in the youtube ratings, the more people that see it.) - have a conversation with each other on the video. leave as many comments as you can
• Rate & Favorite the video
• Send emails to websites about Art, Artists and CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) with links to the video
• send emails to editor@youtube.com asking them to feature the video.

Thank you and I know Luis Thanks you as well

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Production Day #9 - Search for a Kidney Donor

Today's shoot was met with a small technical difficulty; I'd set up t help Luis record a video for his own website asking people to get tested to be a possible Kidney Donor. For some reason the sound didn't record while the mic was in Tele mode and I had to use Normal, which will have a lot more ambient interference.

but we got it shot and another time lapse of him working on his paintings.

So all in all a good shoot day. We talked briefly about shooting his Dialysis sometime in the future. I don't really want to push it too much just yet, cause honestly I'm a little freaked out about it a little bit.

That's pretty much the wrap up. This week I need to import the footage we shot and cut together a video for Luis. At the same time I think I'll be putting something up on my own youtube to help bring attention to his cause and possibly make an official announcement about doing the documentary.

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Luis Sanchez Documentary CKD Update

I'm half blogging right now, just cause I haven't in a while. Gotta keep momentum up. We haven't shot anything since last week, but tomorrow I'm going down to help Luis Shoot a video for him. I might end up putting some version of it up on my youtube channel just to help spread the word, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Tomorrow I'm helping Luis shoot a video to ask people to see if they're a possible kidney donor.

Luis suffers from CKD - Chronic Kidney Disease. He's already had one transplant that lasted a little under a decade and now lives through dialasys treatments 4 days a week.

I'm not sure if we'll shoot anything else, and I have a feeling it'll be beyond emotional, so I'm struggling with whether or not I the documantarian should be shooting it to cover it for the film as well, or if I the friend should put a 100% of my focus in to the creation of this video for my friend.

Without another cameraman I figure I get to default to just being the good guy and focusing on the task at hand. So I really don't have to struggle with how much a soul I have at this time. :D

In other news:
I have some other pictures and videos clips that I'll get online asap over at The Luis Sanchez Story

Stay Strong,

-SamProof