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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
