Entries Tagged as 'Production/Logistics'

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Welcome Home.

Been home for a few days, getting back in the swing, seeing people, unburying ourselves from the pile of bills and mail and errands and cleaning and unpacking that inevitably accumulates when you’re away from home for two months. Just getting through the last bit of the gnarly part of the jetlag…
…and then BOOM! — [...]

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Football Tourney Delays Doc’s Wrap Party

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 [...]

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Music Luv!

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 [...]

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 [...]