Wednesday, May 6, 2009

California: Day 1


Brian, Adam, and I landed in sunny San Diego yesterday afternoon. We spent the day getting all of our gear together and we had a chance to touch base with Tim at the Wounded Marine Careers Foundation, which is a program that trains wounded Iraq and Afghanistan war vets for careers in film and media. We are working with several graduates of the program while we are out here and it was great to meet some of the people behind this fantastic organization.

We started filming today at American Legion Post 6 in San Diego. Things went well, but we had to fight through some technical difficulties. A few of the files recorded by our cameras would not download properly, but we found a temporary fix and moved forward. We have some work to do tonight to figure out the issue.

Frank Manthei, the president of American Legion Post 6, is letting us use the facilities at the post for our interviews in San Diego. In terms of sound quality, this has been one of our best locations. This is probably the first time that Adam has not had his hair falling out of his head because the microphones were picking up the backround noise caused by traffic or people talking outside. Not that Adam has any hair because he gave himself a haircut with some electric clippers yesterday. I now am officially the only member of the crew who is not bald.

We've got some work to do, so I'm going to sign off for now.

S/F
Anton Sattler

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