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Jesse Koepke

  • Designing a Lower Third

    I’ve been reediting the IHOPU 2010 promo, and today I worked on redesigning the graphics. That included designing a new background for our interviews shot on green screen (all but two) and a new lower third. I suppose I didn’t have to come up with a new lower third but you know, if I have the chance, why not?

    As I prepared to leave work, I suddenly had the thought that it’d be cool to post screenshots of stuff when I finish it. So here’s the screencap of what I worked on today. I like how it turned out.

    Have a great weekend!

  • Preparing a Foundation

    The past three weeks have been a flurry of activity as I take steps to enter the world of freelance video editing. I’m not going to quit my job (my goal for now is only supplemental income, not a full-fledged career) and I haven’t been hired for any projects (yet), but over the last few weeks I’ve tried to prepare a foundation for freelancing. Part of the process was setting up a website and getting on Twitter (I’ll post about both in the future), but another big part of it was getting a good computer on which to work. At first I considered buying a new computer and Final Cut Studio 3, but a friend mentioned that all I really needed to do was upgrade my current iMac from Tiger to Snow Leopard and reinstall FCS 2. What a revolutionary idea! Not to mention it’ll save me $2,000. So here’s how I did it.
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  • Why I don’t read Harry Potter (anymore)

    The Harry Potter film series is beginning its end with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on Friday, November 19. A cinematic journey that began in 2001, we’ve watched Harry, Ron, and Hermione grow up and battle evil for almost ten years. Well, I should say, some of us have watched them grow up. As I read Focus on the Family’s review of Part 1, I was reminded of why I stopped reading the books and watching the movies.

    They are just too good.
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  • Jesse Koepke, the freelancer

    After editing videos for almost ten years, completing a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Montana in Digital Filmmaking, and working full-time as a video editor for two and a half years at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, I’ve begun to think about freelancing.

    Freelancing is a huge field about which I really don’t know anything. I’ve started reading some stuff and talking to a co-worker, and it’s pretty overwhelming. There’s a lot to consider, and a lot of hard work involved. I am most certainly not opposed to hard work, but right now, as I stand on this side of the ocean and consider the ship which I have to build, the crew I need to assemble, and the distance that lies between me and the other side, I feel myself wanting to quietly crawl back to my little room and not dare it.

    But if all adventurers had succumbed to that feeling, where would we be?
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  • 9/15/10 – Words of Dust

    This is a poem I wrote back in July, during the Silent Months. When my words felt like nothing. Like dust.

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    I try to write / but no words come. / I can see the end, / the goal of the trip, / but the path eludes me. / I write, but don’t feel; / I dream, but don’t see.

    My dreams are immaterial / and I feel like a farmer / with a dull plow, / vainly, / tiredly, / perhaps naively, / pushing ahead.

    Will you grease my wheels, Lord? / You said the oil would flow. / Here’s my broken jar, / my cracked cistern. / It’s not much to work with, I know, / but I love the words, I really do. / They just don’t flow like they should.

    So touch my hands, Lord. / Breathe on my words / as you breathed on Adam. / Breathe life into these / words of dust, / that they may live. / That I may write. / That I may live.

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    Broken jar, cracked cistern. My words feel like these things. God is God, after all; nothing I bring could add to his beauty. Nothing I make will actually, in all reality look that good magneted on the fridge next to the universe.

    But that’s okay. It’s okay, because I love making things, and he loves receiving them. It makes him so happy to receive what I am so happy to give.

    So I bring my broken jars. “Fill them with your Spirit, Daddy,” I ask, because I know it’s what he loves to do.

Hello,

I’m Jesse

Reading, writing, fantasy, adventure, movies—it’s all been my favorite since I was 8 years old. If you enjoy reading fantasy, adventure fiction, and screenwriting, then you’re in the right place!

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