I know we haven’t been updating that much lately, which has been due to our busy production schedule, but I decided to give some quick updates.

this is one of the hills we walk up almost everyday

When taking on a project like this you try to plan for the unexpected, but no matter what you do there will always be surprises.   Most days it feels like rolling dice; will people show up? Will they let us shoot? Will they open up?  Will we get the shots we need?

It makes planning difficult, you can spend days figuring out the right scene to tell the story, and then at the last minute it doesn’t happen, and you’re back at the drawing board.

Other days, you get unexpected surprises, where some new piece of information is introduced, or you get invited somewhere even better than you had originally planned.

This is the joy of shooting Verite documentaries.  The outcome is unknown, but that doesn’t mean our story is unknown.  We have lots of stories, and I guess its up to chance to see how everything will come together, and we will arrive at our final story.

We have about two weeks left of shooting to do, which doesn’t seem like that much time, considering all the things we still want to shoot.   I guess you need deadlines to keep you on track, as well as deciding at some point that you have enough.

We are managing to have some fun in the midst of all the work.

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