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Brad Leong: My name is Brad Leong and I directed Palo Alto.
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Male 1: Brad is thinking things are getting great, what are you guys doing later?
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Interviewer: So, what kinds of stuff did you have to like making in your equipment for Palo Alto over an ultimate fun?
Brad Leong: Yes, we made a whole bunch of stuff. Pretty much all, any kind of camera rig that we are using be made. The biggest thing was probably the crane. We made a 23-foot long crane that is one we can ride on with the camera, I know one of that slipping crane shots and we cannot pay to rent a crane so we built one instead. So that took like about a week before the production started and that was a lot of fun actually that we did.
Interviewer: Did you build that and plan it out or how did you actually make it?
Brad Leong: I built it with the gaffer on the film. I have been doing that work for awhile and I actually built another smaller version of the crane years back so this was kind of an updated one that moved in more accesses and whatnot it is pretty cool.
Interviewer: And how much did it cost compared to how much you are to cost to rent?
Brad Leong: The cost is like a $1.50 to make which is probably one day rental would cost, so one day shooting, cannot pay for it I guess.
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Female: Just let me help you pretty much what I do best.
Male: That is why you choose DXP.
Male: This is only 15. Let us kick his ass.
Female: I think we need to talk.
Male: I am just not wanting [Voice Overlap].
Male: This are supposed to be the best year of your life.
Male: I am not your boyfriend! I am never going to be a boyfriend! Did you get that now?
Male: Go out there and talk to her.
Male: I am going to walk up and I will go (Inaudible), okay, what’s up, I am going at (Inaudible) over here. It is stupid and I am going to get [Voice Overlap].
Brad Leong: This was not my first time shooting this film. I have always been interested at actually shooting films on the film. We shot a couple of projects, 16. Panavision has been amazing to us. They have given us the cameras for free many times including this time. Kodak has also been amazing, they donated about half our stock on this. In this shot super 16, I have also shot a little bit of 35 here and there. In addition to directing, I kind of get interested in buying and restoring older camera equipment so I have a couple of 35 millimeter cameras that I have bought and restored and with shot with and looked pretty decent.
Interviewer: Not on this story?
Brad Leong: Not on this, this was straight up from Panavision, pretty uniform and we could not deal. If there are major problems, we have to—we can do servicing ourselves and whatnot.
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Interviewer: How was working with celebrities instead of just like your friends in there?
Brad Leong: It was interesting. I mean, it is actually in the gradual process. We have used different grades of actors through all of our short films. This was the first time that we had anyone, with anyone any name-valued logo and it was very cool, it was a lot of fun. Everyone was super nice and like totally cool to work with a first time director. If anything, it was just me being overly nervous about the whole process, but it was great, they were amazing. And, we do really have that many issues on sort of anything, everyone seemed to have a pretty similar vision of the project and it was really just my job to make sure have ever go inside it, but I do not have any issues really at all.
Interviewer: Where you ever like nervous, how did it changed directing your friends and like directing real actors? [Voice Overlap] moment there or was it pretty the same?
Brad Leong: Directing is a very personal thing if you ask me and I am a really hands-off director. I do not really like to bug about the actors or really get in their faces that much and I am probably too much. I probably should be little more active with them than I am. But I have always been that way working with my friends or actors or somewhat name actors, but we definitely try. I try and do a blocking with them and then allowed my camera angles to shift slightly based on how they want to stop through the scene and how they want to make it happen so it feels more natural, so it was more organic that way and then we just run through it. I will throw out suggestions out every once in a while, but I really like with them—after I feel like they understand the character, I really like to let them do their thing with it.
Interviewer: After that whole press con and some stuff, what question are you the most @#$% sick off?
Brad Leong: I do not know. How was Rebecca? It was amazing, I love it, but I do not know what else to say. It was a lot of fun. That is all I can say.
Interviewer: How was Rebecca?
Brad Leong: It was great. It was amazing. I love it.
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Male: Good man.
Female: Are you a pervert?
Male: Well, it depends on how you define pervert.
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