To answer some of your questions
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War Letter was a short narrative produced in an attempt to deal my feelings toward the war in Iraq and why we were fighting it.

It was shot on 7279 Kodak 500T color film using the ARRI S with Cooke prime lenses.

For me, it was basically an exercise in lighting & cinematography. So both scenes are visually contrasting. And both differ in camera mov't and lighting; creating different moods between the two locations.

WAR LETTER was shot in accordance with limitations on length, and so it could only have a TRT of 03:28.

Both the POW and the Grandmother scenes were shot with two different crews, two different locations. One able to help during the day for the Grandmother scenes and the other for the night scenes of the POW.

The entire production was shot within my apartment coplex (not even 20ft from my front door) in order to cut down on location budget and movement. It just made it easier for myself and the crew--a sort of comfortable base camp.

It is another simple short narrative inwhich I invested time & effort in working with light and shadow, right vs. wrong, and the sacrifices we all have to make in this world, whatever they may be.


Thank you & enjoy!

Alejandro Lalinde
grey.street.films

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ps--
If there was someway to send pictures and be able to post them, i would. if any of you would like to see photos from the production, please let me know, would be glad to send them out.

I was thinking about making a iraq feeling film but all that came to my mind was the word stupid, a guy punching G W Bush and did I mention stupidity?

ah well, I think it was a good decision not to make this film

Hoeka, all I have to say to you is, MAKE IT! I so want to see Dubya get socked one right in the kisser, over and over again, just pow, pow, pow. That would rock.

Do you regularly use 16mm?

i am in school right now so we normally are working with 16mm. next semester i will be shooting some more with super 16 & 35mm.

16mm is ok but i prefer 35mm for the sheer size of it--incredible.

So when is "War Letter" gonna be up? Looking forward to checking it out.
R. Michael

"Luck, is when opportunity, meets preperation." "There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine, and the truth, and none of us are lying" -Robert Evans

It's up now.