Young, Fast & Scientific - Episode 2, ‘New York’
Posted by Jay C on December 19th, 2006
Filed under: Features, Podcast
Welcome to episode two of The Documentary Blog’s ongoing podcast series, ‘Young, Fast & Scientific’! This week I pick up where we left off, continuing the behind the scenes look at the making of my student documentary film ‘Obsessed & Scientific’. I’ll get into a little bit of the post production process followed by a detailed look at our trip to New York City to shoot our first two interviews: Michio Kaku, a theoretical phsyicist and professor at the City College of New York, and Rob Niosi, a time travel enthusiast building his own full scale replica of the Time Machine made famous by George Pal’s 1960 film adaptation of H.G. Well’s novel. Definitely an interesting learning experience that i’ll never forget.
Download ‘Young, Fast & Scientific - Episode 2: New York’
Also Available:
Young, Fast & Scientific - Episode 1, ‘The Pitch’
Young, Fast & Scientific - Episode 3, ‘Florida’
Young, Fast & Scientific - Episode 4, ‘Shingles’
Featured Link: The Time Machine Project Website
Below i’ve included a deleted scene from the interview I conducted with Rob Niosi. The footage was dropped from the film due to a large amount of visible scratches on the film. You’ll find out the reason behind this when you listen to the podcast.
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December 19th, 2006 04:32
This is fucking great. Awesome shit. Makes me dream about being in New York shooting something.
I’m not as well-travelled in the documentary universe as certain other folks on this site, but I think the best interviews I have seen in any documentary was in this movie “Dark Days”. I don’t know if you have seen, but I highly recommend. I would probably say it’s my favourite documentary. But the interviews in that movie are very natural, but I think the guy making it actually was living with the people in the movie, and I admit that it would be hard to capture something like it when you have to do scripted interviews about a subject. In “Dark Days” it’s basicly just the subjects being themselves on camera. Anyway, just thought I’d mention it, and that movie can’t be plugged enough.
Did the New York permit cost anything? If it did, that’s a shitty expense.
This series is totally awesome. Good on you.
December 26th, 2006 23:37
Hi there — can’t wait to see more! It’s engaging how your lens frames him and the chair. Thx again for launching this installment (-posted the clip briefly: http://livingwithgeeks.wordpress.com/2006/12/ 27/making-of-jay-cheels-film-obsessed-and-scientific/.
December 27th, 2006 01:23
Thanks Jill!