The Making Of The Making Of

The Smithsonian Network sent over a film crew (aka, one woman cameracrew, on the right) to the "mosh pit," aka the Spark Media Production Department, aka, the Third Floor. On hand was the core production crew for Soul of a People, the editor, the director, the assistant editor, and the um, me. The walls are covered with the real story board cards we used to map out the arc of the documentary in "the cave," or editing cave. The cards say things like "Pauper's Oath," and "FDR Story: The Last President," and everybody's favorite Douglas Brinkley quote "Orgy of Americanism," which is actually in the film, and was, for a short delirious moment in a dark and midnight hour in the cave, actually considered as the subtitle for the film. Sanity prevailed, unfortunately. So, during the set up for the interviews there was some kind of audio problem with the camera. Next thing I know we have the director, the editor, and the assistant editor and the "camera crew" all trying to fix the camera for the making of. And so this picture is the behind the scenes shot of the behind the scenes shoot. Whaaaat?