Entries Tagged as 'Production/Logistics'

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Casting Call: Finding Girl #3

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, [...]

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Final Cut Pro/Quicktime Hell!

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 [...]

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Sleepover at Pragya’s: Second Shooter Gets Promoted Due To Gender

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 [...]

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Translation/Transcription Timeglut! Help?

We’ve got an excellent guy working on it. Suman is friend-of-a-friend of the Little Sisters Fund, and it’s all going great. Well, almost all. 
That the way we’re doing it is to log/capture our tapes (so that the data is safe on our Dulce drive), then we give Suman the tape and our second camera to [...]

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

The Gearhead Promise: Canon, Leica, Zylight, Brunton, Kata

I guess it is about time to talk about some of the gearhead stuff upon which this blog was partly founded.
CANON XH-A1 video camera: It’s been around for a while, and compared to digital still cameras, camcorders (especially at the ‘prosumer’ level, typically have a much longer product lifespan.
That combined with the fact that (again, [...]