I have roughly 2 minutes of usable autocross footage. Why did I film so many launches compared to the rest of the runs? Because I am crap at tripod tracking, that's why. I should check out those Panasonics at OIT to see if they would be better than my Canon - I really want quality stuff from my big Thursday excursion.

Talking with Brian from the autocross on Wednesday. Loves autocrossing his car but will have to get him going on the right subjects, not a very talkative dude (I thought I was bad)

Didn't get a chance to record any interviews at the autocross, but I did get good race footage and get to ride in a 1991 turbo owned by an OSU student I'm going to talk to on campus later this week. People were going through the lines for runs fairly quickly and couldn't dawdle afterwards due to other folks needing the lot, plus I'd forgotten I'm quite the bashful bastard when it comes to crowd social situations. Excuses! Bah. On a purely film-unrelated note, I'm definitely going to run in the next one - just need to get some front suspension stuff sorted out.

The Cincinnati guy outright suggested I just drive both of his cars. Which is cool, but now I have to think of how to mount the camcorder, since I was planning on just crouching down in the passenger footwell...

Will be driving down to the Nasty Nati next Thursday to meet with NB/NC owner, who was also president of the city's Miata club for 8 years. I should be able to get a good full-arc perspective of the car's evolution from him in addition to the whole NA/NB vs NC thing. Also hope to get some good in-car driving footage from both of his cars - showing people driving their cars as they describe them using at least 2-3 angles should make for a good look.

My camcorder is FireWire only. Doh. I'll still have to import on-campus. At least I don't have checkout windows to think of.

Also may be talking with a guy in Cinncinnati Cincinnatti Cincinnati who has both an NB and an NC and has things to say about the generation gap between the NA/NB and the NC. For sure I'm talking with this self-described large blue collar guy and a student with a turbo 91 on Sunday, I'm going to ask them who they know to try to find further interviews. Camcorder has good optical zoom and the tripod is pretty call, hopefully I can get some good footage of runs.

Found some gigantic scans of original 1989 brochures I can use for an introductory Ken Burns section. I'll need to write some kind of voiceover introduction that sums up the run-up to and first years of the car.