Monday, August 07, 2006

Night Shift

I’m starting to get used to this wacky schedule. Sort of. It changes a little bit each night.

We don’t work Friday night, so the footage that they shot on Friday is what we transfer Sunday night. So it’s ready and waiting when we get there. So we show up early, and leave early. Sunday is the best night. Then Monday morning, the production starts shooting early, so we can usually come in early Monday night, and there will be some film ready, if not all of it. However, as the week goes on, the production starts later and later in the morning, usually because they have long working days (12 - 16 hours sometimes) and unions require them to have a certain turnaround period before they can shoot again. So we get the film later and later as the week goes on, and stay later and later in the morning. So Monday morning, I might get to sleep at 4 am, whereas on Friday morning, I might not get off work until noon. (It doesn’t happen very often that we go that late, but it really sucks when it does.)

Beyond all that, I’m still working on The Distance Within whenever I get the chance. I’m in the transcribing phase. This is the part where I play back every interview and write down everything that’s said. It takes forever, but at the end, I will have a better idea of what people were talking about, and how well it fits with what everyone else was talking about. Cause it’s all kind of a blur to me at the moment.

Once I have the interviews transcribed, I can start putting together bits of interviews that talk about the same subject, area, issue, whatever. And I can look at different ways to tell the stories of the trip and the people we met. For now, I have a lot of work to do just to get past this part.