... Of how my Canary experience came to.

Alex: email - Arseniy, Come audition for Canary.
Arseniy: email response - Alex, totally can't that day.
Alex: - Ok, come to Starbucks in 20 minutes.

do I have to tell these people.
We don't work for Canary. Storage facility. Middlemen. What-ever. We don't heal the sick, we take notes about the sick, but we don't heal the sick. Treating those organs badly? Chances are you'll end up in a meeting with me.
Don't worry. I'm friendlier than my image lets on. Especially after some chocolates.

Shooting on location with multiple cameras rolling simultaneously was no big deal, at first. But, on my last day of filming, we just happened to be doing an outdoor scene in a beautiful Los Gatos backyard where there were few places to hide.

The first time I operated camera for Alejandro Adams was on a one-day documentary shoot in 2005 in an Oakland classroom. He said it was a multi-camera shoot so I figured it'd be me and a couple others. I showed up and he had 16 camera operators, all jammed into a tiny room to shoot a group of 8 people. We literally were stumbling over and crashing into each other!

I have to say that my day of shooting was a unique yet challenging yet fun experience. Thank goodness random talking is one of my strong suits! Kudos on the casting - our whole group of Non-Canary-Affiliated-Organ-Repository employees bonded very quickly. Like Insta-Coworkers. I must say, I occasionally find myself vaguely yearning for that Thai food Ranae's (or was it Sharon's?) Ryan-from-accounting was supposed to take us out to lunch for. Good Times.

Here's my excuse to take a break from studying for finals! :) So, shooting this film has definitely been a unique experience for me. I've never done total improv on any film before. I didn't know anything about this so-called "boyfriend" that I was doing "puppy love" scenes with, but it was fun to just let go and have fun. And it wasn't hard, considering Austin wasn't bad-looking at all. Haha. I am really excited to see the final product! I don't know, maybe some day my mom will actually get tired of me and sell me to an organ donating place. Uh oh. Is that what happens to misbehaving kids? I better start washing the dishes and making my bed...I mean, not like I don't do that already. Anyways, I still don't know what you guys do with all that leftover jello and what it was used for. Haha. Mysteries. but anyways, this is such a unique film and I'm glad to have had such a fun opportunity!

I, along with a number of others, have had quite the time trying to figure out the plot of Canary. My first experience with the project stemmed from my impression with the website of Alex’s first film, Around the Bay. The level of professionalism and the quality of the film’s trailer filled me with a silly sense of excitement and enthusiasm for Canary.

It's not unusual that I come onto a shoot and have not a clue what's going on, what the next shot is, who this actor is in front of me, or why I have all this gaff tape all over my pants. I have to say though, Alex stepped it up to a whole new level, and for some strange reason it's exciting. (Or terrifying, still working on figuring out which.)

We started pre-production on Canary in late October in order to distract ourselves. We’d just sent our previous feature, Around the Bay, to several festivals and waiting to hear whether we’d been accepted would have driven us crazy had we not thrown ourselves into Canary.

So I guess I should post on here what it is that I do. I'm one of the camera guys, yay, lol. This is an interesting experience for me, I'm so used to a more strict environment for film than what Alex has been asking of me. If anyone were to compare our work Alex gets all the detail and I just get the shot. It's the way I was brought up with a camera, if the director says take a shot then I hold it till he says different. So this experience would be seen as completely off the wall compared to what I normally do. So if you see my work I'd call it more 'artsy' because of my steady hand, slow zooms, classic over the shoulder conversation shots. Alex keeps telling me he likes my work, but I think secretly he doesn't, lol, or I'm just paranoid.