When the kettle whistles and the tea is ready, it's time for the DesiQuest after-show—and what a show it is! Omar Najam and I, Sandeep Parikh, are all cozied up inside the teapot, steaming with excitement. After every episode of DesiQuest is launched, we'll release another episode of the Tea Kettle with me and Omar and a very special guest, or guest from either behind or in front of the camera.
Step right up to the mic, Joey Rassool, our Director of Photography, and the voice behind 'DesiQuest's' beloved Sitara, Anjali Bhimani, as they join us for a brew at the Tea Kettle. While Omar is off embracing success, it's just you, me (Sandeep Parikh) and our two extraordinary guests weaving tales about the realms of cinematography, motorsports, and the vibrant universe of TTRPGs. Joey takes us through a decade of shaping visual stories, and Anjali enchants us with her theatrical journey from Broadway to the digital landscapes of gaming.
As we near the finale of our series, the air is electric with anticipation and gratitude for our Patreon family, whose generosity is the secret sauce in our post-production recipe. Let's not forget, the spirit of 'DesiQuest' lives on through sharing—so slide that playlist to your comrades and watch the magic unfold. With just one episode left, the tea leaves suggest an epic conclusion, but for now, cherish the camaraderie and insights from behind the curtain and from within the heart of our beloved characters.
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Episode Transcript
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Sandeep Parikh (00:05):
Oh, here we are, we sure are.
We sure are here.
Welcome to The Tea Kettle.
Woo, episode six of the TeaKettle Hello, hello to all of
our lovely listeners.
Remember, this is a podcastexclusive to our Patreon backers
and this whole thing cannot bedone without them.
So thank you, dear listener,thank you so much for
(00:28):
contributing to the show.
You are helping us literallycomplete the show.
Like you, your Patreon is goingdirectly towards all the
finishing funds that we needPost-production, so this is so
helpful.
I'm your host, sandeep, theexecutive producer and cast
member, who plays Ash.
Now, usually we have Omar onthis, but he couldn't make this
(00:49):
one, sadly, but luckily, that'swhat we have the redundancy.
Okay, so there's two hostsbecause he's a busy guy.
He's a busy, successful man.
Joey Rassool (00:57):
That's production-minded right there.
Sandeep Parikh (00:59):
Yeah, exactly Exactly, and we're going to get
to whose voice that is, or face,depending on how you're
consuming this episode in just amoment, Because after every
episode but first one was afterevery episode of the Desi
Quest's launch, we're going torelease this another episode of
the tea kettle with me and Omarand some special did I say?
Joey Rassool (01:18):
106?
I said 6.
You said 106.
I was like, oh, you didn't dothe first one, that's
interesting.
Sandeep Parikh (01:23):
I.
This is how my brain is workingright now.
Welcome to episode seven of theTea Kettle Rewind, rewind.
Welcome to episode seven.
This is our penultimate episodeof the Tea Kettle.
So, though we say in theepisode that this was the final
episode, that's because wedecided to split episode seven
(01:44):
into two parts, and so we willhave yet another episode of the
show and another episode of thetea kettle.
This episode, and so everyepisode, we have somebody from
in front of and behind thecamera.
In this episode, we've got twogreat folks.
We got Joey Rassool, our DP.
Welcome.
Joey Rassool (02:03):
Joey, hello everybody.
Sandeep Parikh (02:05):
Yeah, thank you for having me.
Yes, here's what I have.
Joey is a UK born contentcreator and producer.
He focuses on cinematography,youtube strategy and motorsports
and does a lot of stuff in theTTRPG space.
He's worked for over a decadehere and pioneering for small
production companies as well asestablished media outlets.
So welcome welcome, joey to thepod.
(02:28):
It's going to be exciting toget your take and your point of
view on everything.
Joey Rassool (02:33):
Thank you, yeah, thank you for having me.
Sandeep Parikh (02:36):
And then, of course, once again on the Tea
Kettle reprising core.
Her role on the tea kettle isAnjali Bhimani.
I mean, she's well, you've beenin every.
You're winning awards, you'vebeen on the stage, you've been
on the screen, you've been onBroadway, you've been on Miss
Marvel, you're Symmetra inOverwatch, Rampart in Apex
Legends, but most of all andmost importantly, and all that I
(02:58):
personally care about is thatyou are incredibly portraying
Sitara in DesiQuest.
Anjali Bhimani (03:07):
I love her so much.
Sandeep Parikh (03:10):
Yeah.
Anjali Bhimani (03:10):
I love our characters in this game, so much
.
Sandeep Parikh (03:16):
Yes, me too.
And before we dive into episodeseven, you know, do that thing
where you drop a like and acomment and that other thing
where you like share withsomebody that you love this show
because this whole thing is.
Sharing is caring.
It's free, just cost you alittle time.
Shoot an email.
I'll be like hey, I really lovethis DesiQuest thing, check it
out.
Go, you know, send them ourplaylist from YouTube.
(03:38):
Be like you know.
Just do that thing where youguilt them into joining the
Patreon Trick the algorithm intoloving it.
Anjali Bhimani (03:46):
It will be very Indian Auntie of you to do that,
so I feel like that'sappropriate to the show.
I'm sorry if you haven'talready head over here because
I'm jealous of your microphonesand I'm looking for something to
plug something else in, becauseI am apparently not supposed to
be there.
Sandeep Parikh (04:03):
Yeah, well, listen, take your time, because
I got a few more little anouncythings so you can do that.
Just, you know, yeah, do yourthing, Anjali, no worries.
So if you haven't already, headon over to DesiQuest.
com.
You're going to hop on thatmailing list and then
immediately you're going to getan email back that gives you a
discount on our merchandise, ourt-shirts and our sweatshirts
and Zip-up Hoodies and what elsedo we have on there?
(04:28):
I think it's mostly apparelright now, but but it's oh.
And then we have all theKickstarter rewards that we are
in process.
I know a lot of people arewondering where's my goddamn
Kickstarter reward?
We are working on them, we'rereleasing them.
We just released the soundtrack.
The soundtrack is incredible.
Joey Rassool (04:44):
It's so good, it's really good.
Sandeep Parikh (04:47):
It's really special.
You know there were nearly adozen artists working on this.
Obviously, john Piscatello andAalok Mita our composers, but
they also enlisted.
You know, all of these tablaplayers and Pum bansuri, flutist
, and yeah, so we have liketraditional legit.
(05:11):
You know instrumentation fromSouth Asian artists and yeah, so
we're super, super proud of it.
I mean, I don't know any otherTTRPG that does Right, exactly,
yeah, that's an insane likeabove and beyond thing.
Joey Rassool (05:28):
You know, like we were talking about a little bit
a while back, that you know someTTRPGs that will use game music
and things like that.
You start to hear that gamemusic in real life and then you
know you kind of disassociatewith it a little bit.
But having custom music andlistening to that soundtrack
will forever be related toDesiQuest.
So you guys got that soundtrack.
Then we don't mess around.
(05:48):
Ride those memories with us foryears to come.
Sandeep Parikh (05:52):
Yeah, we don't mess around.
Like you know, when I put thatout as the like kind of the base
reward that you get if youcontribute at the $11 or above
level for the Kickstarter, Ithink people were I don't know
people probably just like oh,it's just a sound like you're
just going to get some Like aplaylist yeah.
(06:12):
Yeah, like a playlist orsomething.
It's like no, no, no, we willLike we meant like this song
from the Witcher, this song fromyeah.
Anjali Bhimani (06:19):
Yeah.
Sandeep Parikh (06:20):
This is like a legit soundtrack and, by the way
, you can actually, if youmissed out on the reward, you
can purchase it.
You can purchase the soundtrack.
It's obviously for a littlemore than what people kicked in
for the thing, because you knowthat makes sense, right.
Anjali Bhimani (06:33):
If you kickstart it and you get the discount.
Can I share the fun fact aboutAalok and I and our oh yeah, you
can, you can go ahead.
No, please tell me.
I saw about, I heard about.
Sandeep Parikh (06:45):
I'm going to stay quiet there was a but and
then there was another, but thatfollowed up that but which
canceled out the two buts.
So many buts you guys.
Anjali Bhimani (06:52):
You're on this podcast, so all the buts just do
you guys know, like the depthof the love that we have for
Aalok mehta.
Aalok and I were in a showtogether called Bombay Dreams
back in 2004.
or 3?
And it was the first big Indiansplashy musical on Broadway.
(07:15):
And he, we have known eachother and loved each other and
watched each other grow over theyears and I've ever since then.
He's, he's.
He's such an extraordinarymusician and I'm so grateful
that he joined us for thisproject, because I feel like
he's like my little brother,even though I'm a big fan of him
aa lok and I really bonded overat PAX unplugged.
(07:38):
I remember that that was a goodtime.
He was my party.
Sandeep Parikh (07:42):
He was my party buddy.
We really had a great, great,great, great great time with him
.
We were cracking he wasabsolutely cracking me up the
entire time.
Anjali Bhimani (07:53):
And his wife is extraordinary actress and singer
as well the two of themtogether.
Sandeep Parikh (07:58):
Yeah, so we were so looking at his town.
Isn't that beautiful, come on,I mean, that's like listen,
that's that's that's the stuff.
Anjali Bhimani (08:07):
I was there.
I was the auntie watching themgrow, even when I was right.
Joey Rassool (08:10):
It might even have had like a sleight hand in it.
You know who's just saying.
Anjali Bhimani (08:14):
I might have.
I, you know, I might have beensending little sneaky messages.
I can't neither matchmaker.
Sandeep Parikh (08:22):
Oh that, maybe that's the evolution of the
character for for subsequentseasons.
Absolutely.
Anjali Bhimani (08:28):
Yeah, maybe Sitara, turns into Indian
matchmaking, only successful ather job.
it feels like a Laddoo Auntiething, but I could see it being
Sitara too.
Sandeep Parikh (08:42):
All right, well, this is great.
We, we, before we get into this, into the actual episode, we do
.
There's a lot of the, a lot ofsponsors that took a big chance
on us to make the show possible.
So in each of these we alwaysshout one or not.
So we're going to shout outtoday Black Magic Design.
I mean already black magic.
So we were already like in amagical realm and universe.
So this is a perfect.
(09:02):
So they they actually providedthe cameras for the show, or
some of the cameras for the show, and we, boy did we need a lot
of cameras for this to get allthat coverage.
Like I think this is anotherunusual thing about TTRPG is
getting as much coverage as wedid.
You know you're not justgetting like two sides of the
table and the DM, you know we'realso getting individual shots
(09:23):
of each of the characters andthere was like cool down the
line shots and stuff on thetables.
Joey Rassool (09:27):
Yeah.
Sandeep Parikh (09:28):
I'm glad we have Joey here to talk.
Talk a little bit about.
You know your experience withthe black magic cameras and you
know again so kind of them totake a chance on us and lend us
those cameras yeah.
Joey Rassool (09:41):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Like, yeah, we were.
I think we had six cameras,three static, two roving and
then the top down, plus all thethe mini shots that that were
all you know, kind of doneseparately as well to kind of
help tell the story, and blackmagic cameras.
Black magic is kind of one ofthe only people out there making
(10:02):
broadcast style stuff for anaffordable kind of streamer
mentality.
Yeah, yeah.
Anjali Bhimani (10:12):
Absolutely.
Joey Rassool (10:13):
And so like it really helps out things like you
know local churches and stufflike that that want to be able
to.
You know stream, you know kindof service and you know schools
that are doing you know their,their football program and
things like that, so they are sogood at helping.
(10:34):
You know small growing outfitsand you know giving you all
those you know professionaltools without having to, you
know, spend the money and youknow, go go deep into the budget
.
So, like, luckily, I alreadyhad, you know, three black magic
cameras on my own, and so theyprovided the rest of them to
(10:59):
help us out and to put the wholeproduction together, so we were
really able to, like you know,pull it all together, just one
of those little things thatreally allows us to take the
funds that we saved and put itback into the show and get even,
you know, like again.
Sandeep Parikh (11:17):
We were supposed to.
I think I just mentioned this.
We were supposed to only shootone day of minis.
That's what we budgeted for.
We ended up shooting three daysof minis and it was like little
moves like this and I mean Ishould maybe little is the wrong
adjective, but it was maybeunexpected moves like this that
really helped make that happenand I think you know, have
really made the show what it is.
(11:39):
We had a top-down camera thatyou know we weren't sure we were
gonna have.
We were able to get for this.
We had a couple of shouldermounts right so that you guys
could cause like it was.
The other thing is that weneeded a lot of versatility
because we had this whole TeaKettle setup right, so the Tea
Kettle and like we could go tothe like as players, we could go
to the Tea Kettle at any point.
Now, from a productionstandpoint, that's pretty scary,
(12:01):
or that's a variable that youreally have to take into
consideration, because if we'relike constantly asking for boons
and jumping into there, it'slike, oh man, breaking down your
setup, bringing it over to theT-Kettle every single time would
have been challenging.
Can you speak?
Joey Rassool (12:16):
to that a little bit.
Yeah, absolutely so.
We had two camera operators,Faizia and Leo, who were at a
moment's notice able to come offof their tripods and shoulder
up those cameras and then stickthe cameras in the side of the
Tea Kettle and go from tripodoperating to handheld and follow
you guys in.
And anything that we can do tokind of streamline the process
(12:41):
for you guys so that it feelsseamless and that you're not
being pulled out of the momentis always fun for us because we
can like.
One of my favorite things isalways like feeling like we get
to play along as well.
That's why we have thattransition, that's why the
camera operators have thefreedom to go like find moments
(13:04):
and like look at faces that arereally interacting with a scene,
and that's why you've got thelighting changes the way you do.
Like it's really just that allof us wanna be on at the table
with you guys and, I'm sure, theaudience as well.
So we're trying to blur thoselines and bridge that gap as
(13:24):
much as possible.
Sandeep Parikh (13:26):
Hey, so sorry to interrupt, but the rest of this
episode is for our Patreonsubscribers only.
So if you'd like to hear therest of this juicy conversation,
let me tell you it gets juicy.
There's another 50 minutes 50,5-0 of this conversation over at
patreoncom.
Slash dacyquest.
Thank you so much forsupporting the show.
Oh, here we are, we sure are.
We sure are here.
Welcome to The Tea Kettle.
Woo, episode six of the TeaKettle Hello, hello to all of
our lovely listeners.
Remember, this is a podcastexclusive to our Patreon backers
and this whole thing cannot bedone without them.
So thank you, dear listener,thank you so much for
(00:28):
contributing to the show.
You are helping us literallycomplete the show.
Like you, your Patreon is goingdirectly towards all the
finishing funds that we needPost-production, so this is so
helpful.
I'm your host, sandeep, theexecutive producer and cast
member, who plays Ash.
Now, usually we have Omar onthis, but he couldn't make this
(00:49):
one, sadly, but luckily, that'swhat we have the redundancy.
Okay, so there's two hostsbecause he's a busy guy.
He's a busy, successful man.
Joey Rassool (00:57):
That's production-minded right there.
Sandeep Parikh (00:59):
Yeah, exactly Exactly, and we're going to get
to whose voice that is, or face,depending on how you're
consuming this episode in just amoment, Because after every
episode but first one was afterevery episode of the Desi
Quest's launch, we're going torelease this another episode of
the tea kettle with me and Omarand some special did I say?
Joey Rassool (01:18):
106?
I said 6.
You said 106.
I was like, oh, you didn't dothe first one, that's
interesting.
Sandeep Parikh (01:23):
I.
This is how my brain is workingright now.
Welcome to episode seven of theTea Kettle Rewind, rewind.
Welcome to episode seven.
This is our penultimate episodeof the Tea Kettle.
So, though we say in theepisode that this was the final
episode, that's because wedecided to split episode seven
(01:44):
into two parts, and so we willhave yet another episode of the
show and another episode of thetea kettle.
This episode, and so everyepisode, we have somebody from
in front of and behind thecamera.
In this episode, we've got twogreat folks.
We got Joey Rassool, our DP.
Welcome.
Joey Rassool (02:03):
Joey, hello everybody.
Sandeep Parikh (02:05):
Yeah, thank you for having me.
Yes, here's what I have.
Joey is a UK born contentcreator and producer.
He focuses on cinematography,youtube strategy and motorsports
and does a lot of stuff in theTTRPG space.
He's worked for over a decadehere and pioneering for small
production companies as well asestablished media outlets.
So welcome welcome, joey to thepod.
(02:28):
It's going to be exciting toget your take and your point of
view on everything.
Joey Rassool (02:33):
Thank you, yeah, thank you for having me.
Sandeep Parikh (02:36):
And then, of course, once again on the Tea
Kettle reprising core.
Her role on the tea kettle isAnjali Bhimani.
I mean, she's well, you've beenin every.
You're winning awards, you'vebeen on the stage, you've been
on the screen, you've been onBroadway, you've been on Miss
Marvel, you're Symmetra inOverwatch, Rampart in Apex
Legends, but most of all andmost importantly, and all that I
(02:58):
personally care about is thatyou are incredibly portraying
Sitara in DesiQuest.
Anjali Bhimani (03:07):
I love her so much.
Sandeep Parikh (03:10):
Yeah.
Anjali Bhimani (03:10):
I love our characters in this game, so much
.
Sandeep Parikh (03:16):
Yes, me too.
And before we dive into episodeseven, you know, do that thing
where you drop a like and acomment and that other thing
where you like share withsomebody that you love this show
because this whole thing is.
Sharing is caring.
It's free, just cost you alittle time.
Shoot an email.
I'll be like hey, I really lovethis DesiQuest thing, check it
out.
Go, you know, send them ourplaylist from YouTube.
(03:38):
Be like you know.
Just do that thing where youguilt them into joining the
Patreon Trick the algorithm intoloving it.
Anjali Bhimani (03:46):
It will be very Indian Auntie of you to do that,
so I feel like that'sappropriate to the show.
I'm sorry if you haven'talready head over here because
I'm jealous of your microphonesand I'm looking for something to
plug something else in, becauseI am apparently not supposed to
be there.
Sandeep Parikh (04:03):
Yeah, well, listen, take your time, because
I got a few more little anouncythings so you can do that.
Just, you know, yeah, do yourthing, Anjali, no worries.
So if you haven't already, headon over to DesiQuest.
com.
You're going to hop on thatmailing list and then
immediately you're going to getan email back that gives you a
discount on our merchandise, ourt-shirts and our sweatshirts
and Zip-up Hoodies and what elsedo we have on there?
(04:28):
I think it's mostly apparelright now, but but it's oh.
And then we have all theKickstarter rewards that we are
in process.
I know a lot of people arewondering where's my goddamn
Kickstarter reward?
We are working on them, we'rereleasing them.
We just released the soundtrack.
The soundtrack is incredible.
Joey Rassool (04:44):
It's so good, it's really good.
Sandeep Parikh (04:47):
It's really special.
You know there were nearly adozen artists working on this.
Obviously, john Piscatello andAalok Mita our composers, but
they also enlisted.
You know, all of these tablaplayers and Pum bansuri, flutist
, and yeah, so we have liketraditional legit.
(05:11):
You know instrumentation fromSouth Asian artists and yeah, so
we're super, super proud of it.
I mean, I don't know any otherTTRPG that does Right, exactly,
yeah, that's an insane likeabove and beyond thing.
Joey Rassool (05:28):
You know, like we were talking about a little bit
a while back, that you know someTTRPGs that will use game music
and things like that.
You start to hear that gamemusic in real life and then you
know you kind of disassociatewith it a little bit.
But having custom music andlistening to that soundtrack
will forever be related toDesiQuest.
So you guys got that soundtrack.
Then we don't mess around.
(05:48):
Ride those memories with us foryears to come.
Sandeep Parikh (05:52):
Yeah, we don't mess around.
Like you know, when I put thatout as the like kind of the base
reward that you get if youcontribute at the $11 or above
level for the Kickstarter, Ithink people were I don't know
people probably just like oh,it's just a sound like you're
just going to get some Like aplaylist yeah.
(06:12):
Yeah, like a playlist orsomething.
It's like no, no, no, we willLike we meant like this song
from the Witcher, this song fromyeah.
Anjali Bhimani (06:19):
Yeah.
Sandeep Parikh (06:20):
This is like a legit soundtrack and, by the way
, you can actually, if youmissed out on the reward, you
can purchase it.
You can purchase the soundtrack.
It's obviously for a littlemore than what people kicked in
for the thing, because you knowthat makes sense, right.
Anjali Bhimani (06:33):
If you kickstart it and you get the discount.
Can I share the fun fact aboutAalok and I and our oh yeah, you
can, you can go ahead.
No, please tell me.
I saw about, I heard about.
Sandeep Parikh (06:45):
I'm going to stay quiet there was a but and
then there was another, but thatfollowed up that but which
canceled out the two buts.
So many buts you guys.
Anjali Bhimani (06:52):
You're on this podcast, so all the buts just do
you guys know, like the depthof the love that we have for
Aalok mehta.
Aalok and I were in a showtogether called Bombay Dreams
back in 2004.
or 3?
And it was the first big Indiansplashy musical on Broadway.
(07:15):
And he, we have known eachother and loved each other and
watched each other grow over theyears and I've ever since then.
He's, he's.
He's such an extraordinarymusician and I'm so grateful
that he joined us for thisproject, because I feel like
he's like my little brother,even though I'm a big fan of him
aa lok and I really bonded overat PAX unplugged.
(07:38):
I remember that that was a goodtime.
He was my party.
Sandeep Parikh (07:42):
He was my party buddy.
We really had a great, great,great, great great time with him
.
We were cracking he wasabsolutely cracking me up the
entire time.
Anjali Bhimani (07:53):
And his wife is extraordinary actress and singer
as well the two of themtogether.
Sandeep Parikh (07:58):
Yeah, so we were so looking at his town.
Isn't that beautiful, come on,I mean, that's like listen,
that's that's that's the stuff.
Anjali Bhimani (08:07):
I was there.
I was the auntie watching themgrow, even when I was right.
Joey Rassool (08:10):
It might even have had like a sleight hand in it.
You know who's just saying.
Anjali Bhimani (08:14):
I might have.
I, you know, I might have beensending little sneaky messages.
I can't neither matchmaker.
Sandeep Parikh (08:22):
Oh that, maybe that's the evolution of the
character for for subsequentseasons.
Absolutely.
Anjali Bhimani (08:28):
Yeah, maybe Sitara, turns into Indian
matchmaking, only successful ather job.
it feels like a Laddoo Auntiething, but I could see it being
Sitara too.
Sandeep Parikh (08:42):
All right, well, this is great.
We, we, before we get into this, into the actual episode, we do
.
There's a lot of the, a lot ofsponsors that took a big chance
on us to make the show possible.
So in each of these we alwaysshout one or not.
So we're going to shout outtoday Black Magic Design.
I mean already black magic.
So we were already like in amagical realm and universe.
So this is a perfect.
(09:02):
So they they actually providedthe cameras for the show, or
some of the cameras for the show, and we, boy did we need a lot
of cameras for this to get allthat coverage.
Like I think this is anotherunusual thing about TTRPG is
getting as much coverage as wedid.
You know you're not justgetting like two sides of the
table and the DM, you know we'realso getting individual shots
(09:23):
of each of the characters andthere was like cool down the
line shots and stuff on thetables.
Joey Rassool (09:27):
Yeah.
Sandeep Parikh (09:28):
I'm glad we have Joey here to talk.
Talk a little bit about.
You know your experience withthe black magic cameras and you
know again so kind of them totake a chance on us and lend us
those cameras yeah.
Joey Rassool (09:41):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Like, yeah, we were.
I think we had six cameras,three static, two roving and
then the top down, plus all thethe mini shots that that were
all you know, kind of doneseparately as well to kind of
help tell the story, and blackmagic cameras.
Black magic is kind of one ofthe only people out there making
(10:02):
broadcast style stuff for anaffordable kind of streamer
mentality.
Yeah, yeah.
Anjali Bhimani (10:12):
Absolutely.
Joey Rassool (10:13):
And so like it really helps out things like you
know local churches and stufflike that that want to be able
to.
You know stream, you know kindof service and you know schools
that are doing you know their,their football program and
things like that, so they are sogood at helping.
(10:34):
You know small growing outfitsand you know giving you all
those you know professionaltools without having to, you
know, spend the money and youknow, go go deep into the budget
.
So, like, luckily, I alreadyhad, you know, three black magic
cameras on my own, and so theyprovided the rest of them to
(10:59):
help us out and to put the wholeproduction together, so we were
really able to, like you know,pull it all together, just one
of those little things thatreally allows us to take the
funds that we saved and put itback into the show and get even,
you know, like again.
Sandeep Parikh (11:17):
We were supposed to.
I think I just mentioned this.
We were supposed to only shootone day of minis.
That's what we budgeted for.
We ended up shooting three daysof minis and it was like little
moves like this and I mean Ishould maybe little is the wrong
adjective, but it was maybeunexpected moves like this that
really helped make that happenand I think you know, have
really made the show what it is.
(11:39):
We had a top-down camera thatyou know we weren't sure we were
gonna have.
We were able to get for this.
We had a couple of shouldermounts right so that you guys
could cause like it was.
The other thing is that weneeded a lot of versatility
because we had this whole TeaKettle setup right, so the Tea
Kettle and like we could go tothe like as players, we could go
to the Tea Kettle at any point.
Now, from a productionstandpoint, that's pretty scary,
(12:01):
or that's a variable that youreally have to take into
consideration, because if we'relike constantly asking for boons
and jumping into there, it'slike, oh man, breaking down your
setup, bringing it over to theT-Kettle every single time would
have been challenging.
Can you speak?
Joey Rassool (12:16):
to that a little bit.
Yeah, absolutely so.
We had two camera operators,Faizia and Leo, who were at a
moment's notice able to come offof their tripods and shoulder
up those cameras and then stickthe cameras in the side of the
Tea Kettle and go from tripodoperating to handheld and follow
you guys in.
And anything that we can do tokind of streamline the process
(12:41):
for you guys so that it feelsseamless and that you're not
being pulled out of the momentis always fun for us because we
can like.
One of my favorite things isalways like feeling like we get
to play along as well.
That's why we have thattransition, that's why the
camera operators have thefreedom to go like find moments
(13:04):
and like look at faces that arereally interacting with a scene,
and that's why you've got thelighting changes the way you do.
Like it's really just that allof us wanna be on at the table
with you guys and, I'm sure, theaudience as well.
So we're trying to blur thoselines and bridge that gap as
(13:24):
much as possible.
Sandeep Parikh (13:26):
Hey, so sorry to interrupt, but the rest of this
episode is for our Patreonsubscribers only.
So if you'd like to hear therest of this juicy conversation,
let me tell you it gets juicy.
There's another 50 minutes 50,5-0 of this conversation over at
patreoncom.
Slash dacyquest.
Thank you so much forsupporting the show.
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