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Cambodia

Posted by Scot, November 25th, 2009

After Tanzania it was back home for a few weeks and then back out again to Cambodia with World Vision. We shot in and around the capital city of Phnom Penh. Doing urban stories is such a different experience than shooting in the small rural villages of Africa. We were in one of the poorest areas of the city – a crowded, cramped and noisy shanty-town along the river. The conditions were some of the worst I’ve ever seen. Basically, we were up to our knees in mud, garbage and sewage.

Seyha

One of our stories featured a little 9-year old boy named Seyha. He helps support his family by collecting old bottles and plastic bags to sell for recycling. Wherever he went, we had to follow. He works all day to fill a huge bag and makes about 15 cents.

We’ve just returned home now and it’s time to start editing. We’ve got so much great material from Cambodia. Each story in the new World Vision show is only about 4 minutes long – it’s going to be tough to cut it all down!

Well, enough blogging for now. Time to get back to work. Hopefully our next posting will be sooner than three months from now!

Seyha collecting plastic to sell

Catching up. We’re bad bloggers!

Posted by Scot, November 25th, 2009

In Tanzania getting a high-angle shot of a school from our truck

Well, we had such good intentions of really getting into this blogging thing. It’s been nearly three months since our last post – so much for being significant social media contributors. We’ve just been so darn busy and traveling to remote villages around the world with no internet access doesn’t help. Yes, I know, I know…excuses, excuses.

The Tanzania shoot in August & September was a bit of a challenge. We ran right into the tail end of their rainy season and three of our seven shooting days were a total loss. This wasn’t just a little rain – we’re talking torrential downpours that would turn the roads into rivers within a few minutes. But, we managed to work around it as best we could and came away with a couple of good stories for World Vision Canada’s new show for 2010.

And then it rained.

And then it rained some more!