Let me tell you about our crew

samreich:

We work 14-hour days. We haul equipment up six flights of stairs. We argue with location owners to let us keep shooting. We argue with each other and make up within a two-minute span. We race around town for forgotten art. We make pressured actors feel comfortable. We make background actors feel worthwhile. We have no sick days. Our vacation time is usually unanimous or not at all. We eat deli meat because it’s cheaper. We are masters of the tight rope walk between artistic vision and compromise.

Every time I reach the end of a shoot week, I want to cry. It’s something in between exhaustion and raw appreciation for the heroes that I work with.

Two great descriptions of Internet video production in one day.  This is the other one, about Dr. Horrible:

entertainment weekly:

They were trying to get [the shot] with that magic-hour light where the sun is setting with this really nice golden hue. But by the time we had moved all the equipment over and rehearsed, Joss said to our director of photography [Ryan Green], ”Is Neil in total darkness here?” And Ryan said, ”Oh, yeah.” [Joss] said, ”We should probably light his face somehow.” And Ryan said, ”Oh, yeah.” So someone just grabbed the Maglite, stood beside the camera, and walked backwards. This is all one guy with a camera on his shoulder, and someone had a boom box with the playback song that I was lip-synching to. That was the vibe of the entire shoot.

Note the similar level of scrappy, but the difference in tone.  For a lot of Hollywood veterans getting into the intervids, this style of production is a novelty.  For Sam and his crew, it’s the standard.