Chang to the rescue!

My Korean filmmaker friend who will be in Seoul for part of the summer has offered to let me use his DV camera and other equipment for the interviews and as much B-roll as I can get. There will be a tight window of a few days while we are both in town, so I will have to get all that arranged and locked down well in advance. This can be difficult in Korea, sometimes, getting things locked down. But hopefully the recruiter folks will come through for me and help identify the schools and teachers for me to make a preliminary contact soon. I'll want to send the list of questions ahead of time so that the responses will be thoughtful.

I will also be using the footage I shot in 02-03 on my dinky miniDV at the time, as well as B-roll I plan to shoot with my nifty new but not professional grade miniDV camcorder. I like mixing up the quality and media, which is what I did in my first documentary, only at that time it was 16mm film and Super8. I've actually thought about buying up a cheap Super8 on Ebay and dragging that along as well. We'll see. Film is much more expensive, but god does it look great!

Not only has Chang offered his production equipment, he is also going to assist with editing, which is fantastic because I think a lot of what I'd like to do, visually, with special effects or other add-on packages to FinalCut Pro, I wouldn't be able to do myself without spending hours. His passion is editing, so it works out. I will make the paper EDL (edit decision list), and he will execute.

He is truly a filmmaker's filmmaker. His sense of filmmaking community is unparalleled in my experience, and I don't know what I'd do without his moral and material support.