I'll take "Dated", I'll take "SD", I'll take "Videotaped", but please don't imply I didn't sweat bullets over every aspect of the production, and that everything in there wasn't a best-of-all-circumstances choice made with the intent of finishing a project that many (at the time) thought was impossible.Īww geez, I had no intention for my remarks to be disparaging quite the opposite.
(Both GET LAMP and the new films are crowdsourced, based on the reputation of BBS Documentary.)Ĭhoose your words carefully, please. I paid larger numbers for the new movies - $20,000 for the DSLR equipment. I recognized, after BBS Documentary was done, that I'd want to move to HD, but in 2006, when I started filming GET LAMP, that cost me $10,000.
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I could have gotten a full crew, but everything else would have suffered: the breadth of subjects, the locations, the variant voices. This was before DSLR became prominent, before HD was the norm.
In one case I drove 500 miles to grab an hour interview with a figure who had popped up, and then drove back. This meant that sometimes in a single day I'd drive to up to 4 different homes, with miles between them, set up all the equipment myself, conduct the pre-interview and interview, and then move on to the next location. And instead of going with a handful of people, say, under 15, to tell the whole story, I chose instead to interview 201 people. Remember, the Canon XL1 I shot with cost me $4000 in 2000, when it was bought. All along the way for the BBS Documentary, I had to make choices. "Production Value" is a very specific term - it is almost always used to indicate skill or attention to the final product. This means some footage was shot as long as 14 years ago. The BBS documentary was shot across 4 years on my own dime (no crowdfunding, my family helped pay for the camera) and traveling to 20 states, from 2001-2004, and then released in 2005. Nope, I'm going to do it, I'm going to focus right on one sentence and ignore all the compliments.