| Filming at a Street Restaurant |
First Day
After filming at the DDP classrooms, the cast and crew moved to a street restaurant for more informal scenes of the Cambodia deaf community. Deaf people go to this restaurant regularly for coffee. The staff there has learned some sign language.
Luc prepares his recorder and sound boom. He worked along with the cameraman throughout even though people were only signing, not speaking, and all he got on tape was traffic noise and the sound of a loud TV with a kung-fu movie on inside the restaurant.
Jeremie (in black shirt, hard to see) is bent over and already filming with a handheld camera while Liza gives directions to the deaf people from the sign language research team who are to be in this shot.
Second Day
Because of failing light two days before, it was decided to shoot again at the same restaurant, but earlier in the afternoon on a weekend. Here Nuria explains how she wants the deaf people to discuss in the scene about to be filmed.
Justin Smith, a trainee program advisor working with the Deaf Development Program (at the right), offers some ideas to the discussion, and Jeremie begins to film. Jeremie, Nuria, and Luc are from French public television and produce shows that air three times a month for the deaf people of France.