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HONEY /DIRECTOR'S
NOTE Journey to the Hive of the Soul Honey is planned to follow Egg and Milk in order of production; its script first has to be completed. To this end support will be sought from the Balkan Fund, Hubert Bals Fund and Sundance. This support is essential to endow the script with realistic detail, because: Documenting the perilous living conditions of people who produce the most precious honey in the world, living as they do on the largely undiscovered Turkey's Eastern Black Sea Region's high mountains, learning about the production of honey and observing the lives of the children in the region are all vital to the script's wealth of detail and cinematography. This will necessitate travelling to the region at different times and in different seasons. It is also vitally important to meet with the dwindling apiarists in the region to perceive their authentic lifestyles removed from the rest of the world and to hear their stories. Information on the hive-building techniques, the choice of trees on which to hang the hives and the endangered Caucasian bees are essential, as are conversations with the school teachers and pupils in the mountain villages. An additional point to keep in mind is the climate in the region, which results in cloud and/or rain nearly 300 days of the year. This atmosphere has to be documented with test shoots as the film is planned to be shot in HD; it is vital for the test footage then to be inspected at the colour correction stage in order to help determine the basic colouring and lighting of the film. In addition, the dwindling indigenous ethnic languages such as Laz and Hemşin, as the native languages of some of the characters, need to be well documented so that these characters may speak in their own tongues. Additional authentic material such as local traditions, superstitions, legends and habits as yet untouched by modern life, food and clothing are all as important as the wild nature itself... Music is an integral part of daily life, and in particular, the songs accompanied by the kemençe and tulum, the oral literature tradition of particular poems and the horon dance. And finally, the interviews we intend to hold with local poets about their childhoods might offer us rich life stories so that we may come closer to the spring from which Yusuf, our poet, originates, that is, the surprising riches of a child's attempt at understanding and perceiving the world about him. Semih Kaplanoğlu
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