This footage was taken in July at a protest in New York City. The man being interviewed by CNN is the high-profile Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji. A moment later, a photographer reached up in front of me, partially obscuring my view to snap a photograph. I was annoyed at the time, but the next day […]
Cars line up, waiting to cross the U.S.-Canadian border.
This is an update on the documentary I’m working on.
Well, my epic clip-logging marathon finished yesterday, and managed to import some footage and actually piece together a scene at about 4am in the morning. It was pretty rough and way too long. I think that’s one of […]
Part of the documentary takes place in Times Square, New York City. In this frame, you can see the back of my subject’s head at right.
Well, I have now officially started the post-production phase of the documentary I’m working on. How exciting. The first step is really tedious: I have to go through and watch […]
Sorry folks. Big night last night (scroll down the front page to check out my coverage of the CT primary), and today I’ve been filming for the documentary I’ve been working on. Filming is almost complete, but it looks like I won’t be able to edit any of it just yet. I’ll update with news […]
I just got back from a small local peace vigil regarding the war in the Middle East in the center of town. It was sponsored by Amnesty International, and apparently there are other such vigils going on today as well.
There weren’t that many people there and they were all students, because the email announcing […]
I’m sorry for the lack of posting earlier today. As you might know (or might not), I’m working on a short-medium length documentary, and my subject was available for an interview today on sort of a moment’s notice so I scurried off to do that. Then when I got home, my internet decided that it […]
We just got back from shooting in downtown New York City, I’ll be back home around Sunday afternoon and blog posting will be normal again. Wow, I’m exhausted. We were just at the hunger strike protest to free political prisoners with some Iranian dissidents accross from the United Nations compound (about 100 Iranians showed up).
In […]
Well, I was on vacation in Maine for the last several days, so no further shooting of the documentary happened. However, stuff is about to get really exciting with regard to that.
My subject and I are going to be travelling to New York City to film two parts of the documentary, which I’ll share more […]
Yesterday I shot a little more boring b-roll footage for the documentary and then I went into the basement of the building I was in, and inspected the are where I will be doing the majority (all?) of the interviews with my subject.
It’s a pretty neat classroom theater which is arranged in sort of a […]
Well, documentary shooting started very quietly and unceremoniously Wednesday afternoon. I shot a small amount of b-roll footage that I’ll use to break up some interview footage. Ill be sharing background info about the project as it goes along, but since I view this as a fun learning experience during the summer until I go […]
I’ve chosen a location to interview the subject of the short doc I’m going to be working on, and I have to say I’m pretty excited about it. It’s a small basement auditorium with stadium seating at a certain local “Ivy League” college. I’m hope to be able to light it in a somewhat dramatic […]
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