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 [...]
Finished our last interviews day. We are pretty much done with filming. Figured we could take part in some risky behavior (not that going scurvy is not a risk). Now it is all about T + T = T. (Transcription & Translation is Tedium.)
Today’s work has fulfilled yesterday’s optimism. The looming cloud of scribble remains unformed, still fleeting around as loose vapors. More about today, tomorrow. But as to yesterday…. The thing that give us this blithe ability to be happy when stuff’s going pear shaped all around us is simply this: The Gift of Time. Our work, [...]
Man, we worked SO hard to make today go. We woke up bound and determined to get at least two of the four interviews that didn’t happen Saturday due to the strikes. The transportation strike is still on, and that meant that there were no taxis or private cars moving through the city (and of [...]
So, as reported in the article copied below, Kathmandu is in a condition of general road strikes. There is a great deal of hubbub about petroleum prices–basically the government can’t afford to subsidize the stuff, and it costs the same here as it does in the states. Only, most people here earn no more than [...]
