Notes

Wrapping production of Empty Quarter

We returned to Malheur County for ten days of production work. We recorded onion harvest and packing, a bentonite mining operation outside of Adrian, making corn silage, service at one of Oregon's two Buddist temples, the Owyhee Dam, and a number of pick-up shots (open landscape in Succor Creek, agricultural buildings and other structures). It was tough work, probably one of our most productive shoots of the entire production process over the last ten years. The film is now at Cinelab being processed and printed. Very excited to see the results. We have ahead of us an intense three month period of editorial and lab work in time for the premiere which has been moved to late January. Details for the local screening are still in the works. I've used seven different cameras for this production, and it was nice to have the XTR to employ this time around. In recent years, we've also switched over to file-based audio recording, finally moving away from DAT. Pam has a nice audio kit, and I think she is please as well with the transition to better tools for the task.

October 14, 2010