The iChat
Erica Harrell
Producer
One of the most challenging, yet intriguing aspects of producing A Monster in the Attic is communicating with crew despite their physical distance. Though the film will be shot in Utah, our crew is spread out across the country.
Since Danny Daneau, Alex Eastwood (production designer) and Bryce Hudson (unit production manager) all live in Central Florida and I live in Los Angeles with Eric Ernst (writer) and Scott Uhlfelder (director of photography), we take full advantage of communication technology in this digital age. As dedicated Mac users, Danny and I often use the video conferencing feature found on Apple’s iChat program, that allows us to communicate face to face in real time. Since there is a 3 hour time difference, we’re often communication either really early on the West coast, or really late on the East.
This challenge will only increase once we move to Utah for production, as we will then be spread across three different time zones. Though Kanab is a seven-hour drive from Los Angeles and two days from Florida, communication is made easy through advancements in technology.
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Erica Harrell on 01 May 2007 |
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[…] Danny and I are really familiar with working with the iChat as our primary communication device when I was in Los Angeles and he was in Orlando. We were also interviewed using the TracStar interactive satellite system when we spoke at a conference in Moab, Utah. Students were able to log on and ask us questions live from all over the world. Phil Petersm one of our mentors on this project, uses TracStar for interactive educational purposes for a wide array of projects. We hope to be able to use technology like this as well as the iChat and Skype to help us with outreach and eventually digital dollars for the distribution of The Attic Door. […]