When your wife says to you one morning, “I’m going to build a 4-person elephant puppet”, first you say “Cool, I’m in” and then you ask if you can film the process.

Because she enlisted me to help with the construction of the puppet (I was mostly labor, not a brain), I didn’t always have my hands free to shoot in the style I normally would, or with the same type of cameras. Because of this, I leaned on mounted GoPros for much of the footage in the driveway and the garage, which I think adds a level of fly-on-the-wall intimacy to the goings on.

In addition, I encouraged Megan to pick up the GoPro to film herself whenever she wanted, which gives us some nice “confessional” moments in the film.

Of course I hope this film inspires everyday people to create and build and imagine, and explore that side of themselves they feel may have been lying dormant for too long, but I also hope it inspires filmmakers to make a film even if they don’t have big fancy cameras. And even if they do have big fancy cameras, sometimes the best way to capture a story is with much simpler equipment. Whatever it takes, because story is paramount, and the most important thing isn’t the lens, it’s the intent behind it.