[Migrantjusticedocumentary] Solidarity City Interview report back from Remy and other things!

[Danielle Holyk]

Hey everyone,
Can we keep in touch via email just so I stay in the loop while I'm gone
this week and can help from afar.
So now we have more things we can get working on. Like below is the info
from Remy for the t. interview... they ran into some troubles but nothing
out of the normal for us. However, I wasn't able to droplet camera 1 and
asked Boban but didn't hear back. So if someone wants to try again and
wants Boban help (or maybe ask someone else in the office) you'll have to
ask him before wednesday as he's out of town after that until next week.
We have the Indigogo to work on as well so if people can say what they've
done that would be helpful.
Other things are the broll that still can be placed, (the JV2 hard drive is
in a locker if you need it), setting up the other resistance interview
(Nico have you heard from Neil? I didn't get anything back from Neil or
Kike! Want to follow up and set up something for next week? if you
can!??!), Cera you said you wanted to work on 'research' still and I'm not
sure there's much left but Gwen did send me some info that could help our
stats etc (and I highlighted spots in the newest beatsheet for stats too)
since I didn't get a chance to go through Gwen's info I'll forward it to
you but let me know if and when you work on it so we don't double up
work,... are there other things?

Also if email's not working for you these days can you let me know and I'll
give you a call or text (that is if you read this one).
Sorry I took off but I'm here in spirit and on line to do what i can!
xo
ps please look at roz's message she drafted for us!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rémy Huberdeau <remyhub at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Solidarity City Interview
To: Danielle Holyk <danielle.holyk at gmail.com>, Boban Chaldovich <
contact at bobanchaldovich.com>


Hey Danielle!

Ok so Boban copied the footage this weekend. Some notes on the shoot (which
went 'ok' but we had some significant weaknesses):

- We were short on time. The interviewees only had 1.5 hours and I showed
up to the wrong location due to a confusing email chain (my fault to not
double check) so we lost time right of the hop.

After setting up the room and gear (and readjusting for falling sheet) we
ran out of time for b-roll.

In retrospect we needed a half day shoot to accomplish everything properly
but I didn't realize the time constraint until it was too late.

- there's just over an hour of footage. Hassan spoke really well, but
jumped into a long history that set up Solidarity City early in the
interview and may be tiring for you as you look for your '2' mins.

Nonetheless there should be a couple nuggets to harvest. He did a good job
of not simply going down a 'we won' path and contextualized struggle in a
way that I thought was honest and real.

Tings was generally les comfortable so there's way more 'ums' and her bit
was not as strong but hopefully there's a clip to support.

- Tech difficulties. There was little light in the room and not a lot of
options for remedies. Camera 1 will have to be lightened but I hope it
looks and sounds ok!

There's occasional background noise which was unavoidable.

Maddie didn't have an extra card and ran out of room to shoot. I didn't
bring my laptop (forgot that I needed it for her) and so some of het
footage was dumped on a PC but then I couldn't recover it in time because
of incompatible hard drives (I don't have a device that connects to PC).

This means that '2 camera' sync is incomplete at a couple places. I also
ran out of room at one point when Tings was talking but it was caught on
camera 2.

- follow up: I didn't get a chance to ask about what 'title' they want on
screen or about other archives to access as b roll. S someone from tour
team will have to do it.

= the conclusion is that your work won't be smooth to build a new scene,
but I hope that with some elbow grease you can pull it off.

Good luck and see you on the weekend xoxox

Rémy
 On Jul 2, 2014 5:08 PM, "Danielle Holyk" <danielle.holyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there Toronto, Mtl alum and missed, friends!
>
> So as you both know we're trying to finally finish up this migrant justice
> documentary and we're needing a bit of help. Oh by the way do you both know
> each other? Maddie meet Remy, a rad doc film maker who we shared office
> space in Moreau with and a good friend! Remy meet Maddie, my old neighbour
> and friend who started working on this doc when Aaron was involved and then
> left us for T. at the end of last summer and now she bought a camera and is
> into 'filming' ;)
>
> Any how, we wanted to add more 'highlights' of resistance at the end of
> the doc to finish on a more upbeat note (here's the version we screened at
> the June 'launch' https://vimeo.com/98768945  the pw is : revolution
> -Just so you know the sound wasn't mixed properly for the export and the
> sound track is a work in progress. we're also planing on making some
> changes... like adding more resistance at the end and more 'breathing room'
> in general for breaks, changing Majoub and double punishment around, adding
> some stats, and doing/redoing a few interviews etc.)
> The 'new interviews' is where you two come in, as we'd like to talk a bit
> more about 'solidarity city' and give toronto as an example. So we were
> wondering if you could do an interview with Tings and/or Hussan from NOII
> ideally in the next two weeks?!??! (next week would be awesome!!!?) It
> would be a short interview (we'd prep the questions with you and let you
> know exactly what info/how long we need) with good/external sound, Boban
> would love two cameras (but one is enough, but maybe you'd get them to do
> it a few times, if we need to make cuts), nice lighting and a nice
> backdrop! What do you think? It would help us sooo much and make the film
> better!
>
> As soon as we hear back for you, I'll put us in touch with Ting and Hussan
> to figure out logistics and we'll talk about the info and content that
> needs to be captured!
>
> Also any feedback you have from the shared video is welcome!  We plan on
> working on it this month and get it to picture lock to do final sound and
> colour correction/soundtrack etc in aug. for a final export for sept!
> fingers crossed.
>
> Thanks so much for the help!
> See you soon
> xooxo
> danielle
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: K. Sarah Yiu <k.sarah.y at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Solidarity City Interview
> To: tings chak <thingswithouttheh at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Hussan, S. K." <hussansk at gmail.com>, maddie ritts <
> maddie.ritts at gmail.com>, Danielle Holyk <danielle.holyk at gmail.com>, Otto
> Vicé <ottovicentini at gmail.com>, Nicolas Quiazua <nicolas.quiazua at gmail.com
> >
>
>
> Hi Tings,
>
> I think we would be happy to interview you but also other folks who are
> interested are welcomed.
> Our timeline is a little tight, so we were hoping to get the interview as
> soon as possible (within the next two weeks).
> Do you think that this would be possible? Also Hussan, would you be
> interested?
>
> thanks so much for all your help,
>
> Cera
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:19 AM, tings chak <thingswithouttheh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Cera,
>>
>> Thanks for getting in touch and for the update about the film! Really
>> excited to see what comes of it!
>>
>> I am personally ok with doing an interview but I've also been less
>> involved in the solidarity city campaign in recent months. I could look to
>> see if there are others interested who may want to participate - Hussan,
>> any thoughts on this?
>>
>> What's your timeline like?
>>
>> Talk soon
>> -tings
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Jun 27, 2014, at 7:27 PM, "K. Sarah Yiu" <k.sarah.y at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey friends,
>> >
>> > I am writing to you on behalf of the Montreal migrant justice
>> documentary crew. We are currently finishing off the final touches of our
>> movie and reworking the ending. We were wondering if you two would be
>> interested in doing a quick interview about solidarity city (we will
>> provide a specific list of questions etc and things we would like touched
>> on) so we can add it to the resistance section of our movie. Let us know if
>> you would like to do the interview or if you know others who you think
>> would be good to ask and we can go from there!
>> >
>> > take care,
>> >
>> > Cera
>>
>
>
>
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