Decompressing and Digitizing
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After a harrowing 30 hour journey from Odessa to Kiev, to Frankfurt, to Toronto, and then crawling off the plane in Montreal, we all went home to our families to reflect, and decompress from the 2 week shoot.
I am back at the NFB, on stable ground, in my office on Cote de Liesse Road in Montreal, without an ounce of former sovietness around me, and not a perogie in sight. It is all very weird, but part and parcel when returning from an intense location shoot.
Garry and Barry are currently getting the material digitized to go through the rushes, and make head and tail of the material that was shot. Also, as Josh is always on the move, and headed to Banff to work on another project, Garry caught up with him before leaving on his trip.
Once we digest everything, now it’s planning the next stages of where we are going with the film. A wild ride, no doubt.
Here’s a short video from the middle of the trip, asking Josh what he thinks the young Ukrainian staff on the cruise thinks of all this klezmer music.
Also, for more fun, Bob Cohen, musician and writer on the cruise also has blogged about the trip, where you can see more videos, beautiful pictures, and commentary.
