Wednesday March 10

I've always wanted to "shoot" Stephen. We keep talking about it. I think we had in mind a real documentary, you know an hour or so. Would be good for festivals. Well frankly after the money I wasted on film festivals for my Pinot film - I've gone cold on festivals.

Pinot: Escape from Wall Street is a good film, yes I know I made it - but I also know that it is OK.

Why didn't the fests. want it? Beats me. Maybe because they hate Wall Street traders. Maybe because our trader says the F word all the time. Maybe because there's no "cause." Nobody is starving, killing dolphins, saving the world from global warming, having autistic children... I digress.

Anyhow Stephen has always avoided doing the big deal STEPHEN MALINOWSKY doco. so when I emailed that it would be a only 2:59 video, he agreed. Come at 3:00.

We start on his deck. "Why did you have photo's taken of your injury?" Trouble with shooting Stephen is he's so tall. 6' 4" at least. "Let's go inside.."

Stephen does his thing. All one take. Then we go upstairs where does his Music Animation Machine programming. In all, I shoot 10 minutes, that's a 3:1 shooting ratio - rare in the new world of video where "film stock" costs nothing and folks shoot 500 hours to get a finished hour. Honest.

"You should film Alan, my neighbor," say Stephen.

Knock knock. Alan opens the door. I turn on. He's great. This is really what I had imagined. Spontaneous stuff from ordinary (you know what I mean) people. Everyone has a story to tell.

How I hate those TV interviews you see all the time. Once you light a location with a zillion lights and bring in three cameras - all reality and spontaneity vanishes.

So my stuff isn't perfect, there are lens flares, camera wobbles but it is REAL.