Here’s a lovely essay on how equipment is related to the way we work. It is a finer articulation that I can manage, not least because it effectively raises the question: Which came first–the gearhead or the disease? With a big camera, you miss a lot of pictures you might have gotten with a little [...]
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 [...]
The first time we went to Pragya’s with Nutan to introduce ourselves and to tell them about our project, Pragya pointed to a cozy little bed with carefully placed stuffed animals on top of it and told me, “This is our bed.” The three of them, mom, Pragya and her eight year old little sister, Praynena, all sleep together. I remember how I used to [...]
I guess it is about time to talk about some of the gearhead stuff upon which this blog was partly founded. CANON XH-A1 video camera: It’s been around for a while, and compared to digital still cameras, camcorders (especially at the ‘prosumer’ level, typically have a much longer product lifespan. That combined with the fact [...]
…thirteen year old farmgirls want to grow up to be farmers, it seems. “If you could do anything you wanted to when you grow up, what would you do?” We asked Saru. “Probably work in the fields here,” she said. “Well, I love it, and it would give enough time to hang out with my [...]
