Entries from June 2008

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Internet Whining

We are trying, really trying, to get stuff up on the bog. Got a backlog of it, in fact, with lots of pictures and plenty of thoughts to dip them in.
Trouble is, the internet seems to be in the process of severing diplomatic relations with Nepal. I think the combination of pirated software and seat-of-the-raggedy-pants [...]

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Buckling Down, yo.

Whoo, wee. I am tired. We’ve basically got all our shooting done, and all the key material is logged and backed up. Transcriber is working on the last couple files, and we have been feverishly evolving an editing and subtitling protocol.
As far as we can tell, it’s working. We’re staring down several long days of hard, hard [...]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The Art of the Interview

There was a lot of build-up to the interviewing of our three girls and mothers (and in one case, brother). Scott and I had decided (with help from our filmmaking and all around super creative buddy, Chris Boulton, via Skype) how we were going to go about conducting them based on the following:

We want the girls/mothers to [...]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Rescheduling a Guilt Trip

If the picture that should appear below is indeed doing so, you will be looking at the most difficult-to-upload picture of all time.
Pause a moment here, if you like.
Okay:

There now, wasn’t that worth it?
Please note that the above picture was to have been the anchor point for an overearnest and probably overwrought rumination upon the topic [...]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Love+Hate=Lavalier Mics

We use lavalier mics a lot. Pretty much any time we have a camera on a person, we try to have them mic’d with a lav.
If they’re sitting still, we use a wired one; if they’re moving around, we stick a wireless on em. We like people, and in the course of making films about [...]