Dead in the Water Lizzie

To Do: -Text Kemp with date to follow up -Email Christian Breen to follow up -Call Don Webb to follow up -Email Elsie to follow up -Jocabed promo design -Grocery store b-roll; need permit -Interview James Doss (Dec 1) Unfortunately, production has stalled a bit in the last week before break due to scheduling conflicts and people needing to cancel or reschedule. The good thing is that we've been able to maintain positive relationships and communication with all of our subjects and contacts so that we can keep things moving. Above is a to do list of things outstanding. Elsie Herring's interview will need to be moved to next semester. This is both fortunate and unfortunate—she had to reschedule because it looks like the community of Duplin County may have won a lawsuit against the industry. Thus, Elsie cannot give any public comments until after December 1st, and her schedule is very packed. We set up our interview with James Doss, the chef at Rx restaurant here in Wi...

For Cucalorus I attended the kick off 10x10 party, Rebels on Pointe, Working in Protest, the Barn Door Shorts, and a Connect seminar about sustainable seafood. The two events that I connected with the most were the feature documentary Working in Protest and the sustainable seafood presentation. Working in Protest chronicled protests in the United States from the 1980s all the way until the recent presidential inauguration and womens' march, covering everything from the KKK to Occupy Wall Street. Seeing observational footage of these protests collected over thirty years was chilling and maddening, but also inspiring in many different ways. From a filmmaker standpoint, it gave me an example of a completely off the wall and out of the box way to make a documentary, which is helpful for me because I have a habit of limiting myself to the traditional talking head and intercut b-roll style. I got a similar feeling when watching Rebels on Pointe, given that it was cinema verite. I als...

This past week with Dead in the Water, we focused on shooting more b-roll and trying our hardest to reel in some of the outgoing contacts we've made. We were able to attend another pig and chicken vigil in Tar Heel, NC, home of the largest slaughterhouse in the world. These vigils are a great place to network with likeminded activists. This vigil compared to the one we attended before the semester started had far fewer people, which made it easier to approach the transport trucks to film the animals going to slaughter. Paige and I were also able to get on the water and film some nature, foliage, wildlife shots. Paige took the time to experiment with the slow motion option on the A7Sii, which worked out great. There are only so many shots of cypress trees that we can use, so the slow motion option gave us the ability to film things like Spanish moss, boxing turtles, and birds in a new and different way that will be more visually interesting than plain tracking shots of the river...