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 [...]
Stayed up till 2am last night preparing for our BIG DAY of interviews. We have had this Saturday all booked up and scheduled perfectly for over a week now. We were supposed to conduct our interviews with Pragya, Manita (her mom), Shanta and her brother, Kumar, today. Saturdays are key because it is the only [...]
Went to the village today to find our third girl. If it sounds like ‘how on earth is it that they’re 9 days from leaving and they’ve yet to cast this thing?’… well, you’re right. It was freaking us out as well.
But doing this kind of work in unfamiliar settings, across language and cultural divides, [...]
Okay, so, yeah… not “hell” exactly. But definitely Heck. I’m in computer heck.
I’ve spent the last hour and a half on the phone–or more accurately, talking to my laptop’s screen–Skyping with various people in various offices at Apple Computers, trying to get one of them to explain to me how to make Quicktime Pro for [...]
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 [...]
