The Rental Experience #5 - The Fall

a blog-series recounting the making of "Seven Year Rental"

By fall 2006 we’d been at it for a little over three months.  We met regularly to work with the camera, do audio tests and discuss the structure of the film.  And the project was constantly on my mind.

We’d built our interview wall and set up the security camera to record with the additional microphones placed around the counter.  We had our paperwork in order and all the employees had agreed to participate.  We were ready.  But what the movie might actually be was still a point of contention.  We knew what themes we wanted to include, but there was no way of knowing if our footage would reflect them. 

At this point there was nothing else to do but begin filming.  I thought we would for sure have everything we needed by February.  That, however, was not the case.

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