Archive for May 2011

San Francisco

On Sunday we were generously invited to Art and Janet Wong’s beautiful home in San Francisco where we filmed interviews with: Art Wong, Bobby Foo and Ford & Pat Lee. We took advantage of the beautiful views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, but the wind and sun made the location difficult to

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Berkeley and El Cerrito

Had a great shoot today at Cal Berkeley with Pete Schneider, Dr. Ron Lee and Edison Chan. They were great sports and very patient while we dealt with challenging weather and time constraints. The El Chino crew would like to thank them for their patience and Jack Wong for staying the entire day and helping

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Heading Up To San Francisco

The El Chino Crew is heading up to SF to film a series of interviews with friends and relatives of Bong Way Wong. We have between 3-4 interviews lined up for each day from Saturday to Monday… Wish us luck, and hope the weather holds for us!

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Principal Photography

Sunday May 15, 2011 – Our first day of Principal Photography! We started early, meeting the crew at 8am at Denny’s (open 24/7). Never again. The breakfast was edible, but that’s all that can be said of it. Surprisingly Erika and I were early – our call time was 8am (early for us) and we

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El Chino – Shoot Day #5

Erika and I went down to the beach near LC’s place and we did some audio tests with the Rode shotgun mic attached to a k-tek boom pole, as well as the sennheiser lavalier. We did the test shots using LC’s new/used Canon 5D Mark 2 (we now have 2 5D’s in our kit as

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