'A PIE FOR EVERY REPLY': PART 8

THE POSTING OF THE REPLY PICTURES

Well, after the shoot was all over and we were back home, we knew what was lying ahead...the editing of the film and posting of the pictures.

I left all that to hubby to tackle. Slowly he began to go through the film and capture pictures. He had to reread each reply post, and then grab the pictures that pertained to that request. It was a tedious process, as there were special requests or gestures that he needed to make sure were in the pictures that he was capturing. It took over a week to do all of it.

At the same time I was taking each individual request from the forum post, putting them on a word document and editing them with html text, so that all we would have to do would be to copy and paste the request on the thread and post their pictures underneath it. We thought it would be cool to have it that way, and then the other viewers could see the request and the resulting pie. We also thought about attaching the reply pictures to the original post, but thought that it might take too long to go through, or possibly that the band width might not support it.

We were ready to leave for vacation in a few days...a much needed rest. We wanted to make sure all the pictures were posted by then; we did not want that hanging over our heads when we got back. But we wanted to get them out there in time so that we could see the response. We finally posted them on the UMD forum...670 images, over a span of 7 days...each day's post taking about about 2 hours of time. Finally we were finished! It felt great! And the response was awesome! Everyone had such nice comments about the pictures...and seemed so appreciative too.

We also thought it would be nice to post a comment from each of us about the whole process.

So I posted:
"Wow! This has been absolutely amazing! When we first came up with the idea, we thought it was pretty unique…and it was! But planning and executing something of this magnitude began to sink in after we closed down the voting. 119 replies! 119 pies! What were we thinking?

Purchasing and storing the supplies, finding the right location (now I know why running a WAM business from home would be a lot easier), the expense, the preparation as well as the clean up, were nothing ,compared to taking the time to look back over all the requests, capturing the video frames to reflect those requests, transferring, then posting the original replies along with the pics. It literally took us a week to do, in addition to the running of our ‘regular’ household.

But when it was all said and done, we were quite proud of our ‘little production’. It was fun and exciting, besides being labor intensive.

Now it is time for me to express a few thanks for all of the help I received to pull this thing off.

First, thanks to the UMD.net, for providing the venue to post our topic and idea. Next, a special thanks to the moderators who helped with all the duplicate posts, the changes to the thread, as well as their patience with all my emails and chats! Middy, Bob and Lib (and anyone else who may have helped that I didn’t know about), you were great! I sure did create some extra work for you that weekend! Sorry!

Next, to the forum members who responded to, as well as viewed my thread. Without you, this would not have been a success. I appreciate your participation, your nice comments and wonderful accolades.

And finally, to my hubby…my producer, director, screenwriter, photographer, grunt guy, pie wrangler and pie thrower, as well as film editor. I don’t know if you really know how grateful I am for all of this. I couldn’t have done it without you! There would not be a piegirl if not for you! Love always…

Kay

P.S. Maybe we’ll do this again sometime! How about the ‘First Anniversary’ shoot?!!! Ha Ha!!!'


And hubby posted:
'60 cans of shaving cream.....X no. of dollars
Tarps.....X no. of dollars
Hotel room.....X no. of dollars
Pie shells.....X no. of dollars

Piegirlkay laying in that kiddy pool.....Priceless

Well Mudbuddy, you stole my thunder!!!

...but like you said to me on YIM, "Someone had to do it." So credit to you and here is what I was going to post to the thread...

Tarps, shower curtains, white chair, garbage bags, kiddie pool, buckets...$95.00
Pie shells, shaving cream, chocolate brownie batter, pancake syrup, cake batter...$180.00
See through black top, celebration dinner, 2 nights stay at local hotel...$260.00
Hard Drive Digital video camera, tripod, editing software*... $625
Grabbing and posting 670 images...one lost week of time

Getting to pie my wife 120 times…FUCKING PRICELESS!!!

* we needed a new vid cam anyway!'


And then we were done! A first anniversary shoot? Well, at this point...who knows?!!