Nutan and Amy hard at work on the subtitles. Did I mention it was hard work?
So, in parts of the world that aren’t North America, they have this game called soccer. Actually they call it football, but when you’re an American and not talking about the NFL kind, you always need to say that first [...]
Mangal Maharjan of EMW Records (left), with Siddhartha, Rashil and Gurun of Kutumba
Music is huge, right? I won’t wait for you to answer; it just is. Until now, in our little films we have relied mostly on some pretty good royalty free music we found on the internet. It works, but, it’s not quite all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
