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 [...]
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 LOVE [...]
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 that (again, [...]
…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 friends.”
Saru’s [...]
On a minor note of inconvenience, we are having a tough time finding good food, cheap. Kitchens/restaurants in these parts seem either to be of the supremely grubby, guaranteed-to-make-you-sick kind, or of the backpackers’-delight-rich-and-fatty-comfort-food-and-a-little-too-expensive-to-boot variety.
We’ve got a modest budget for our daily consumables, and our hotel provides a great breakfast spread. Lunch and dinner are [...]
