Penguin July 26th, 2008
Woke up at 12, then back to sleep until 6.
Breakfast was rice porridge made in milk with a bit of sugar.
After breakfast, we joined the staff for morning devotions.
Then I had a quick meeting with Nazira to talk about the schedule and the rest of the week. We decided we wanted to spend the morning visiting the various projects in Tokmok and then spend the afternoon going over the rest of the logistics. This would also give her a chance to review the prepared document.
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Penguin June 24th, 2008
It looks like Red String Theory has been put on hold. The director didn’t bother to tell me that she would be in NYC during our two shooting days. Since I’m ramping up to do Irreplaceably Precious in August, this small window is all we had.
I was looking forward to doing RST too. Maybe it’ll still happen sometime this fall. We’ll see what happens.
-Penguin
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Penguin June 23rd, 2008
Bryan Bertino talks about his directorial debut on The Strangers:
It seems so simple from a distance, the concepts of finding the right cast, picking a crew, finding a location. But in reality, from the minute pre-production began, I was thrust into a world I had only read about or at least seen glimpses of in DVD bonus features.
Finding your cast is about finding the right person to help you create a true character. It is about finding someone who can help the words on the paper come alive.
Questions are the key to what a director does. You are like a machine, being driven from place to place. Your life is simplified
There was nothing in the books I had studied over the years before production that could have helped me.
I needed to shut up and go work. Whether it was my first time or my twentieth, I was going to make something that people would watch, something with my name on it. It would be judged whether I was a first-timer or not.
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There’s some great insight that most filmmakers hope they’ll have one day. In the meantime, it’s great inspiration to keep writing, keep shooting, and keep making movies “that people would watch”.
-Penguin
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Penguin January 20th, 2008
Wrapped our third day of shooting today and we’re on good track to finishing the video.
Nancy was nice enough to open her house to let us shoot there. Since we had gone over last week, I was committed to making sure the place was clean and back to the way it was before we got there. We were running a little late as it was, so we missed a lot of shots.
At the time, it seemed like the best decision. Grab the master shot and that’s it. Now, that I’ve had time to think about it, I regret that decision. The additional coverage that we needed to get were minor and probably would’ve taken an additional 15 minutes. I was so focused on just finishing, that I compromised my vision for the video.
Does this decision ruin the video? No. Is it as good as it could’ve been? Probably not. Now, I have to make a second decision. Do I go back to Nancy’s place next week and shoot all that coverage that I missed? Or do I move on. We have a really tight schedule coming up, so I’m afraid that we may run over.
With that said, I think I’m going to go back. Otherwise, this is going to eat me up inside.
-Penguin
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