#and how they truly try to understand eo and learn eo and just accept each other

[pranpat]

best boyfriends 

Bad Buddy (2021) 

[aresrl]

Helloooo, I want to try this too, it's sounds very interesting.

I hope you don't mind me being anon.

Could you write me a matchup for a vision, a male partner and a best friend and, only if you're in the mood, a enemy?

WARNUNG: It's a long text. I'm sorry ;.;

Most people are telling me "I'm too good for this world." because I'm always friendly, I try to help the best I can, doing my duties without complaining and never really fight with someone.

But actually, I'm just someone who likes to analyze people and react accordingly to they behavior. I want to understand people and I think the easiest way is to watch them. I'm very calm with a lot of patience and like to give advices. That's why people often come to me if they have something on they minds. I'm getting kinda uneasy if there is something I can't figure out. So, I like when people give me detailed explanation or description about something they want or need.

And even if people think I'm so friendly and kind, what I am, don't get me wrong, I love my peace and alone time. I'm way more productive if I'm on my own, because I can focus more and it's quiet. Also, I'm not the type of person who likes to be surrounded by many people. Mostly because I'm not so good at keeping a conversation alive, but I try. I like being around people I'm close to.

The friends and family I have are everything to me. I hold them dear and I always be there for them and try to keep them away from any harm. If they would betray me (what some really did) I would be completely heartbroken. I'm always scared that my loved ones will leave me. It's my biggest fear.

For a relationship, I think the person need a lot of patience with me because, like I said, I like to be alone. I'm also not a very affectionate lover, because I don't have many experiences. I'm fine with all those holding hands, cuddles, kisses and all but I would rarely be the one who make the first moves. If my lover is upset about it, I would trying to be more affectionate for the love of my partner to make him happier. I just want him to be happy.

But there is one thing I absolutely adore. Lying down, holding each other and just enjoying the atmosphere. No words (maybe a few) just cuddling and listen to each others heartbeat.

Some more informations if they're necessarily:

Things I like: dogs, drawing and painting, reading, warm weather with a soft breeze (I love this), respectful and understanding people, nighttime (including stargazing), meaningful conversations

Things I don't like: heat, arrogance, loud noises, to be bossing around, uncertainty, crowds

I'm sorry, it truly is pretty long. I hope you don't mind.

I hope everything I wrote makes sense to you. Thanks for doing this, I'm looking forward to read it :D

Have a nice day and stay healthy!

(chin up if your day was not so pleasant❤️)

Hey! I don't mind people being Anon at all! I don't know if you will find it funny or scary but I always think people “too good for this world” will die early. Eh anyways here are your results!

You received... A Hydro vision! Generosity, devotion to people, always helping others, and mastery are the main characteristics of the Hydro vision. • Last time I forgot the mastery thing and reading the analyzing part made me remember that it was also a characteristic of the Hydro vision. It seems that you are a great analyzer, you have your own way of analyzing people and you seem to do it accurately. • I feel that if you want to have clear indications on what you need to do for someone it's not only to greatly fulfill the task (which would mostly look like a Geo trait) but it's to satisfy the person the most. • You have a strong bond with people. I don't know if that's the case but I wouldn't be surprised if every time you have to make a decision or you think about something important, you will first think about people you love, like if it would hurt them if it would be more convenient for them or what would they think about it. Your partner would be... Diluc! A silent but soothing relationship. Two icons of Mondstadt. • The first time he heard your voice was at Angel's Share where you were talking with Eula. The bar wasn't crowded so you were feeling comfortable enough to talk properly with her. You were debating about Kaeya. You didn't really know him but you still shared the feelings you had about him with her. Because of Eula's presence, the few present people at the bar became a bit more silent, letting Diluc hear better of what you were saying. “Kaeya? Hmm... I don't really know him but I feel something off... The few times I've seen him he seemed quite dramatic. But the kind of drama attitude you use to hide weakness.” • In addition to your calm voice, he also liked your perception. He wanted to know more about you. As you were about to pay with Eula at the counter, Diluc spoke: “I heard you talking about Kaeya earlier. You seem to have good intuition.” He paused and crossed his arms, looking elsewhere. “You can only trust half of what he says... At best.” • Sometimes you went back to Angel's Share (not purposefully but most of the time it was during his shift) to buy a bottle of a drink to your liking, and little by little you began to appreciate each other pretty well. • At the beginning of your relationship, both of you would be clumsy because of your lack of experience but slowly, you would learn together. After being more confident, you'd both engage things equally. Diluc would be very romantic with you. • You share a common thing with Diluc: serving Mondstadt. You during the day, helping people, friends or friends of friends with their tasks or problems and Diluc at night, preventing the evil to reach the city. • Even though his facade can show a grumpy man, you can see what's really inside and that's what you love. • You would share a lot of relaxing moments privately. Both of you like a calm atmosphere, perfect to share a great moment together. • You two are popular in Mondstadt. Diluc already has his reputation but you, you are loved because of your pure kindness towards everyone. You won't spend a lot of time together publicly but when you do, people feel like seeing celebrities in front of their eyes. Your friend would be... Eula! “How dare they befriend me while being so popular? They will just bring more attention to me and my plans of vengeance! For this, they must pay!” • You get along very well with everyone in Mondstadt (except one person that we'll mention later) but your best friend remains Eula. • You are very close and actually, there are no specific reasons why you get along well but you do! • Both of you talk freely and most of your discussions are interesting. • When you hang out, you always go somewhere to eventually improvise things. • She likes the fact that anything you'll engage you into, you'll do it with finesse and without a complaint. Your enemy would be... Kaeya! And it's not even Diluc's fault • You find him suspicious and you know for sure that you will never truly know why. • He considers you like a sort of threat so he will be especially careful

around you. He knows how to lie but he would get better at it to cover himself even more. Which is a clumsy move from him because it will make him even more suspicious to you. • You try to avoid his case with Diluc for fear of getting him annoyed. • Deep down, there is no hate between you two. Kaeya knows you're perceptive and it just makes him insecure while you just wonder what he is hiding, by innocent curiosity. Worth to mention (but you mentioned you didn't like uncertainty plus, this is a long list, so you can ignore it if you want) : • You would be a great ally for Beidou but I think you would refuse to be a part of her crew because of the inconvenient lifestyle. • You, Xingqiu, and Chongyun would form a great trio! It would be mainly led by Chongyun who's heading out for an exorcising, Xingqiu willing to join him and by the way, inviting you. You would accept because all the moments spent with them are wholesome and also because you would be curious about ghosts, even if at first you thought you'd be more of a bother than anything else. You'd be a great ally for Chongyun too: he needs calm and you are, both of you don't like heat and you could help him with anything, it would always be easy and not tiring tasks. • Xingqiu finds you honorable. • You are a great support for Ganyu. • Jean respects you a lot, she could even admire you. • You share similar values with Keqing so you get along well too. You can count on each other and you would even be invited to a shopping session with common friends. • There could be interesting things between you and Xiao because he would truly appreciate you. A common situation would be you going to Wangshu Inn because you'd need a place to sleep for a night or two and during your stay, you would meet Xiao randomly. You would both say hi, pleased to see each other, Xiao's face would relax by seeing you. But there's nothing more. If this happened in a universe where there is a reincarnation process, I'd say that you were together in a past life, only death has managed to separate you, and now, you meet again but live your lives respectively. I hope it suits you and I also hope you don't mind Diluc's part being very long (and the worth mentioning too) and actually my answer being longer than your description eventually haha I almost did nothing yesterday so I'm gonna catch up today. But before, I have to do my dailies

[lorrainecparker]

Meena Singh: how I shot The Confession Tapes

From the why of choosing a Canon EOS C300 Mark II for The Confession Tapes to the importance of keep filming when your heart tells you to put the camera down, Meena Singh explains what drives her  work and about her involvement with projects focusing on women’s empowerment.

The Confession Tapes is a true crime series exploring legal cases in which people have confessed to crimes they did not commit.  The series of seven episodes – the first two covering one case – follows the narratives of the convicted, and is an inquiry into why people falsely confess, including an exploration of the malleability of memory, the hard press of “junk science,” the polygraph as a tool for manipulation, the covert use of hypnosis, and ultimately, the subjective nature of our own personal narratives.

Each episode reflects on how the accused’s false confessions were coerced by the police through inhuman, immoral, and potentially illegal tactics.  The police interrogation video acts a structural spine, threaded throughout, showing how different narratives emerge over time. Critics praised the series, likening it to other Netflix true crime documentaries, such as The Keepers and Making a Murderer.

The comments about the series also suggest that “the muscle and skin around that spine are Meena’s emotionally evocative images. Meena’s talent as a documentarian is creating an empathetic gaze for the audience to use as their pathway into the story.  She also deftly creates images that will expand on and contextualize the story; to understand what we’re seeing in the interrogation tapes, we need the images Meena provides.”

The positive references to The Confession Tapes along with previous work from Meena Singh, like Little Stones, suggested the filmmaker as a potentially interesting interview. The variety of her work, a keen interest in documentary, and a mixed cultural background – born in Chicago to an Indian father and an American mother – and her desire to bring affecting stories with social impact to the screen in a visually compelling way, all concur to give her work a unique perspective, explaining why she has been a long-term collaborator with award-winning directors.

With all that in mind, I asked Meena Singh if she could take the time to answer a dozen questions, those I would like to have answers to, and which, I believe, will also interest ProVideo Coalition readers.  Interviews are always the result of two things: a set of questions that mixes technical, professional and human factors, and an interviewed person willing to reply to those the best she or he can. This interview was not possible without the help of everybody involved, an effort I am truly grateful for. So, without further ado, here is what Meena Singh had to say.

PVC – Who is Meena Singh, the woman and cinematographer? Please tell us a bit about yourself.

Meena Singh –  I’m an 80’s kid from the suburbs of Chicago. Had a real John Hughes-y kind of upbringing. Ha! I kid, but it’s true. I moved to LA to pursue Cinematography at the American Film Institute, and have been enjoying the California sun ever since.

PVC – Which are the films of your youth, as a teenager?

Meena Singh – I grew up watching movies with my older brother, so it was a lot of Alien, Predator, Terminator, Close Encounters of the Third Kind… I love Spielberg for his ability to tell the story in one elaborate dynamic camera move. Terry Gilliam, David Fincher, the Coen Brothers, Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze were all impressionable directors to me in the 90’s. As I got older I fell in love with New York’s independent cinema scene of the ‘70s – my favorite being Dog Day Afternoon. But I love all films.

PVC– When did you discover your interest for cinema as seen from behind a camera?

Meena Singh – I loved Raiders of the Lost Ark and for a while I thought I wanted to be an archeologist. Haha! What I was responding to was how movies allowed me to transport myself into a magical dream world. There’s a shot in Jurassic Park, near the end of the film, when the whole park is crashing down. The T-Rex stands at the entrance to the museum and a large banner that reads “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth” enters frame in front of everything and falls to the ground. It’s such a chilling moment that in one beat illustrates the theme of the entire film. When I saw that shot, I noticed the hand of the filmmakers behind the film, whose vision created what I saw on screen. That’s when I realized I wanted to – and could – make movies.

PVC – You’ve done everything from music videos to comedy, but documentary and narrative storytelling seem to attract you the most? Why?

Meena Singh – I’m inspired by a good script or a compelling subject (if it’s documentary). I prefer long-form work, like a feature film, or “The Confession Tapes”, which I spent almost a year working on. To be able to really dig into a story or topic, to design the look and style of a whole film or series, that’s the best.

PVC – How did you become the cinematographer for Netflix’s “The Confession Tapes”?

Meena Singh – I’ve worked with creator/director Kelly Loudenberg for a couple years on different projects. We hit it off right away. I love her style – she dares to look at the other side of every story, even the less accepted or less easy to digest. She told me about “The Confession Tapes” almost a year before we started shooting, and I was in from the beginning. I thought it was a powerful idea and I knew she would handle the subject with compassion and elegance. I’m so happy to have been a part of the project.

PVC – Although different, your recent stories, Little Stones and The Confession Tapes, both create an emotional involvement of the cinematographer with the subject. How does a professional cope with that and keep filming? Are there moments when you simply have to put the camera down?

Meena Singh – Little Stones – a film that follows four female artists using art to create social change for women in Brazil, Kenya, Senegal and India – was my first documentary feature. The women worked with trafficking survivors and victims of genital mutilation, domestic violence and extreme poverty. During filming I learned the importance of capturing those moments you speak of – when you feel you should put the camera down, that’s when you should actually keep filming. It is of utmost importance for me to gain my subjects’ trust and show them I’m not trying to exploit them. When they know that, they open up and allow me to have the camera on, and it becomes a beautifully real experience between my subjects and I.

PVC – During the production of Little Stones you and director Sophia Kruz founded a non-profit organization, Driftseed. What’s Driftseed? What moved you to create it? Was it the stories you followed for Little Stones?

Meena Singh – Driftseed is a nonprofit organization founded by Little Stones director Sophia Kruz, DC based lawyer (and my cousin) Ankita Singh and I that aims to empower women and girls through outreach, education and documentary storytelling. We started Driftseed because we wanted to further the impact Little Stones could have in education and community settings. We worked with University of Michigan School of Education (CEDER) to create a comprehensive education toolkit with discussion guides and resource guides so that organizations and schools across the world can have materials available to discuss the issues raised in the film. We also provide fiscal sponsorship to other filmmakers with projects focusing on women’s empowerment. It has been a joy being a part of Driftseed with Sophia and Ankita. We do it in our spare time, whatever we can give, because we feel the need for women’s stories to be told and for female documentary filmmakers to be represented.

PVC – In Little Stones, as Sophia Kruz mentioned, you play with details, visual transitions and juxtaposition. The Confession Tapes trailers show sequences of images, abstract imagery, that will expand on and contextualize the story. This seems to be constantly present in your work. It’s not just the technique, it looks as way to see the world and share it with others, somehow similar to a writer’s style. Is this “Meena’s style”?

Meena Singh – My work is always driven by story; I try to always keep the story and characters in mind when crafting the visuals. For “The Confession Tapes”, the challenge was to explore very complex cases, to examine them years after the fact from different angles, like in Kurosawa’s Rashomon, a film that tells the same story from 3 different perspectives. We would come back to a location where the crime occurred – or in one case the site of a perp walk set up by police that became a media blitz causing a public confession – and we would shoot the space from different angles as different peoples’ memories were shown to coincide or conflict. The show is about false memory and manipulation of the mind. We focused on making mundane images that we see all the time unfurl and become abstract.

PVC – Little Stones reflects on the stories of four women whose lives are dedicated to empowering survivors of gender-based violence. Although in a different setting and away from the glitter of Hollywood, do you feel these stories, somehow, relate to the “little stone” which the movement #metoo represents?

Meena Singh – The movement #metoo is a powerful but horrific one in that it shows the massive scope of the issue. The Little Stones subjects try to make the problem and its cure more manageable by helping the people they can actually reach, bringing it down to their local level. There’s a quote that inspired the name of the film, by Alice Paul, famous activist:  “I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” The takeaway is that we can all do something to expose violence against women, and it can be something as simple as making people aware that there is a problem. As a filmmaker, that’s where my energies are best focused.

PVC – For Little Stones you traveled with a Canon C300 as your kit. You used the Canon Cinema EOS C300 Mark II for The Confession Tapes. Any special reason to choose the C300?

Meena Singh – Canon made a great camera in the C300 MKI. It was built light for travel, but also with all the bells and whistles you need for long form documentary filming and professional shooting. I love Canon’s color space, and I see it in the well-rounded skin tones of my subjects. They are above and beyond in that regard. The C300 MKII follows suit, and I’m happy to see that Canon listened to our complaints and fixed the quirks in the first model. As documentary operators, our camera becomes an extension of our hand, and we get very specific about how we want our tools configured.

PVC – Besides the cameras, which equipment did you carry with you for those two documentaries? Was the team size responsible, at any time, for the choice of cameras, lenses and other equipment?

Meena Singh – You need to travel light. You need your equipment close at your fingertips. But you also want to get the best image possible. I used Canon’s Lightweight Cinema Zooms 15.5-47mm and 30-105mm T2.8 that gave me the best range and are incredible glass for the weight. I had 2 LitePanels Astras w/ Snapgrid soft boxes and customized the camera accessories from a many different companies to work best for me.

PVC – What’s next for Meena Singh the cinematographer? And the woman?

Meena Singh – I just wrapped a special for Adult Swim called “Mother May I Dance With Mary Jane’s Fist,” written, produced by and starring Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Artemis Pebdani from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” – it’s a hilarious and raunchy spoof on Lifetime TV movies. Quite different from “The Confession Tapes,” as I’m sure you can tell by the title!

One final note

On December 6, 2017, filmmakers Meena Singh and Kelly Loudenberg will be at Canon Burbank to discuss their collaboration on lensing Netflix’s “The Confession Tapes”. According to the information provided by Canon, Kelly and Meena will share their process in designing the visuals of the show; original look book, re-creation B roll, how to film 6 complex murder cases in over 15 cities in 50 days -, capturing sensitive interviews in the moment, true run and gun documentary filmmaking. Follow the link to find more about this free seminar included in Canon’s Live Learning program Professional Development Seminars & Workshops.

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