Entries Tagged as 'Video/Multimedia'

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

It LIVES!

So, on our last day, the hotel van was scheduled to take us to the airport at 11:20. At 11:03am, Amy and Nutan hugged–the final subtitle was nailed. It looked like this (the hug, not the subtitle):
 

Pure jubilation. Well, filtered through exhaustion. 
 
From that joyous point, we had to get all that stuff home. 

Eleven boxes of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]