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With the HALO project running on Current TV and drawing donations, I accepted another project shooting a documentary in Mumbai, India. I had planned to shoot on the HVX200 in HD, but the camera was pulled from me 4 days before my flight. On January 18th, after receiving a rush shipped DVX100A from Zolita Digital and building a china ball light kit with Chris Overholt, I was on my way to Mumbai. I arrived at the airport around midnight a franticly searched the crowd of unfamiliar faces for Dipti Mehta (a person I had never met). She is a friend of a friend and had invited me to shoot a documentary on Chawls. More to come……

Mid urinal sprint to the Record Bar restroom Nairba explained that there are only 60 people living in the KC Metro and the rest are robots. This sent me into a crisis reserved for those who have just made a vanity computer purchase on Black Friday. During a consumer guilt driven 11:00pm phone call, Nairba explained he was referring to the feeling that everyone he meets is connected to someone he already knows. This leaves all the surrounding people to be extras or robots placed randomly to fill the scene. (no longer feeling guilty about my white polished piece of marketing bliss) I thought if a lot of extras are only getting a meal and a rolling credit for this life I should make it as interesting as possible.  

This opens a new production chapter.  My flight reservations have been made and I am off to shoot both a short narrative and a documentary in Mumbai, India in early 2008. Currently the plan is to shoot in HD, but I am worried that I might lose the story fidgeting with too much technology.  I will post a separate tech blog on the logistics of this shoot.  Any recommendations on cheap highly portable lighting would be appriciated.

Hi my Name is Josh Fry.

This is the first post for this site.

My demo reel page is www.fryflux.com

Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way.

This project means a great deal to me and I am honored that it will reach so many people on Current TV.

Equipment:

Zolita Digital - Camera and audio

Chris Overholt - Built home brew battery operated lights

Dan Locke - Camera and 4 batteries

Hanuman Brown-Eagle - Reflector and rain guard

Kyle Hamrick - Tripod

Cody Donelson - Photographer’s vest

Music:

Explosions in the Sky

America Crew:

Collin Martin - DP for clay globe

Adam Martin - Grip for clay globe

Tony Ontiveros - Board Break-a-thon Camera Op

Mike Athey - Board Break-a-thon Camera Op

Josh Fry - Board Break-a-thon Camera Op

Josh Fry - Director and animator for clay globe

Kenya Crew:

Josh Fry - Producer/Director/Shooter

Rebecca Neuenswander - Producer

Kristin Vogel - Still Photographer

Art Direction:

Leena Phadke - Clay globe concept and construction

Chris Wright - Mechanics consultant

Josh Fry - Clay globe concept and construction

Sponsor Producers:

Howard Johnson

Bert McGuire

Freda McGuire

Penny Fry

Larry Fry

Bob Fry

Elma Fry

David Washington

Post-Production:

Josh Fry - Editor

Special Thanks:

Telos Studios - Web Host

Jerry Daniels - Kenya Host

Sherry Daniels - Kenya Host

Stephen Ngunjiri Kariuki - Timau Host

Keneth Maina - Fixer/Driver

John Kenya - Translator