Technical Details

Running time: 16 minutes, 16 seconds
Medium: Digital8
Camera: Sony DCRTRV520

This is the last time I'll ever use this camera. Now 5 years old, I've milked it for everything it's worth. Armed with a wide-angle lens, a slightly better command of in-camera exposure, and a steadicam fixture, I did all I could do. For the next production, if I shoot it myself, it's all about pro-sumer models with 24fps.

Post-Production Computing: PC

Pentium 4, 3.0Gh, 800MB front-side bus, 200GB hard drive space, and 1GB RAM

Post-Production Software: Adobe Premiere Pro, SoundForge, ACID, and Quicktime

You can have your FinalCut Pro. For the no-budget filmmaker, Adobe's Premiere Pro is remarkable. I bought Red Giant's MovieLooks plug-in, which supplies multiple filters that crunch hard and unattractively crispy video artifacts into soft elements that try (not entirely successfully) to emulate the dreamy fuzziness of celluloid.

Music: Zoviet France and myself

For opening music, I heavily distorted a bit of "music" from Zoviet France, which itself distorts natural sounds to produce exquisite music. All remaining music I assembled in ACID using royalty-free packages from their site. I even resurrected unused orchestral samples from "Her Last Interview."