Nicaraguans, Ana says, work hard and play hard. Today we definitely did more play than work. After breakfast, Ana, Trevor, Arthur, Eleane (Ana’s cousin), and I piled into Ana’s car and drove about forty-five minutes to the beach. Arthur and I visited the beach on our last trip and agreed that it would make for some beautiful B-roll.
We rented a small villa for the day, parked the car, turned on the AC in the villa, and went for a walk by the water, which was warm and wonderful, gentle waves moseying up and down the sand and leaving gorgeous sea-shells behind. We spent most of the day doing Very Important Filmmaker Things like baking in the sun and cooling off in the pool. In the late afternoon, when the heat (and light, I assume) became less intense, Arthur and Trevor wandered around and shot some footage of the beach - a soccer game, a girl building a sandcastle, some people on horseback. Trevor’s greatest cinematic endeavor, however, was yet to come.
On the way to the beach we drove down a road with a row of trees on either side and then vast fields of sugarcane stretching out as far as the eye could see. The trunks of the trees had been painted white, with RIZO (one of the Presidential candidates) in big red letters down the side of each trunk. That would make a great shot, Arthur mentioned when we passed them, and Trevor agreed. And so, on our way back home, Trevor got out the camera and carefully maneuvered himself through the sunroof of Ana’s small SUV while Ana gently pushed down on the accelerator. Trevor shot for about five minutes, keeping his cool as traffic passed in both directions. The footage, everyone agrees, is incredible.
“I knew I brought you for something,” Arthur observed after we watched it.
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April 27th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Hey guys!
We miss you and can’t wait for you to come back. The DPL is boring without you.
I can’t wait to see and then cut together all of this beautiful-sounding footage.
Reading your logs has inspired me to persue my own project, which you will be forced to partipate in.
-Jess
ps.hurry up, allyson is in pieces without you!