08/27/09 More Filming on Remote Viewing Documentary

Over the last three days I've been getting together with Vernon Mui to continue filming on our remote viewing documentary. Most of what we have been doing over the past few days is updating his website - Georgia Remote Viewing Society, and filming FAQ questions that he can update to the site to add more content. Most of what we have been focusing on is to make the GRVS website be the best it can be and attract more people.

One of the major hurtles of this documentary is the lack of a real group of people interested in the subject matter so I am trying to help Mui create content to get people more interested. This may seem like something that a documentarian should not be doing but I am not only a filmmaker on this project but I am also someone who is trying to help Mui present remote viewing as something anyone who is interested can learn.

One of the other main hurdles of this film is that Mui is still new at not only teaching but also being in front of the camera. He is someone more comfortable behind the camera and it shows in much of the footage captured thus far, but he is improving and has come a long way since we first started filming this project a few months ago.

I do not know how long this production will take before I have enough good info to put in a film but it will be an interesting journey nevertheless.

Next, we will meet to edit the FAQ that we filmed as well as work on the footage of one of his sessions that we filmed so that members of the site will have more content to view. It should be very interesting.

Week 1 - "Filming the First Class"

Vernon Mui conducted his first class for the remote viewing classes. He's conducting two INTRO classes in order to get people to sign up fot the funsar the two day "Beginningers" class so he can get the funds to make his trip to California at the first of August to do some one-on-one training in remote viewing.

The first class was on Friday, 7/10/09 and had two people from his website that decided to do the FREE Intro class. I couldn't be on hand put we set up a camera to film the entire thing so that not only does he have something to look back on but we have something for the film in case something extraordinary happen during the class.

The second class was the following Sunday on 7/12/09 and only had one person show up.

From what Mui has told me the 1st class provided him with a alot of good questions on the subject to answer whereas the second class went on at a snail's pace due to the lack of students but I informed him that this was his first attempt at teaching a class and he shouldn't get too discouraged

From what I've been told remote viewing is not an easy subject that can be explained in five minutes. It takes Mui almost 2 hours to go over everything and he didn't even get into the "meat" of the subject. I'm sure the first class had a lot of questions for Mui whereas if the person in the second class asked almost no questions (I ended up filming a huge chunk of the second class).

This week ended up being nothing more than more footage that probably won't end up being in the film because the focus of the film is on Mui's personal experience with remote viewing while the classes are only going to be some background flavor.

What this week did do was help me understand why other people are interested in the subject as well as might promote some promotional material not only for my documentary but for Mui as well who wants to do more classes and possibly turn it into a business.

6/30/09 Filming the First Interview.

At the last moment Vernon Mui and myself decided to film the first initial interview for our remote viewing documentary tonight at Gwinnett Convention Center. In addition to the interview we were also going to film his first solo remote viewing session not only as a means of discovering all the technical aspects of the project but to also get me familiar to how it works in the practical sense but to also familiarize me with the whole concept.

The purpose of this film is not only to inform and describe what the process of remote viewing is for the average person but to allow me to go on my own journey of discovering what it is since I have so little knowledge of it in the first place.

The interview was hard going at first since Mui has never been interviewed before and found it difficult to stay focused and concentrate. He had issues with staying focused on the task at had but by the end of the interview he was where I needed him to be for the film. Mui is an unusual subject for the film as he is mostly a behind-the-scenes person who never wants to be in front of the camera. For this film he is mainly the subject and my "window" into the world of remote viewing. He gets satisfaction from using the project as a means to teach more people who are interested in the subject matter. We are currently setting up several classes that will be filmed for the documentary and which will allow him to shine as a teacher.

I'm thinking the film will take us through summer and part of the fall to film and I will be a feature (or at least 74-80 minutes long). This is our second day of filming (our first day was spent on the first class).

The amazing thing about this proect is that even though the filming of the actual remote viewing sessions are quite boring it is the results of the session that are facinating because with Mui's session I picked the subject that he was to remote view and he was very close to finding the right place (the place was some pyramids of Egypt) even though he had no knowledge of the place he was looking for. He had enough of the small details correct that I am convenced that there may be something to this remote viewing (the results of the session will be posted online and in the finished film).

This was our practice run for the documentary but I'm convenced that this is a subject worth documenting and looking into.

06/05/09 First day of filming on Remote Viewing Documentary

At the same time I was conducting a reading of my screenplay HISTORY OF THE VAMPIRES for the anthology film LAST CALL, I was also doing some preliminary filming on my documentary on remote viewing. Vernon Mui, who is a practicioner of the process of remote viewing, was conduction a Level 1 class with an individual who was being exposed to it for the very first time. This class wasn't originally suppose to be part of the film that Mui & I are doing but we decided to film this session just so he could get aclimated to the camera being on him (since the film will mostly follow him) and we could get some cutaways and background footage for the proposed feature length film.

I don't know really anything about remote viewing other then what was in the film SUSPECT ZERO but I thought it would make an interesting topic for a film that discusses the process and execution by someone who uses it.

Since I was unable to be on hand to film and watch the entire session, I'll have to rely on the footage to give me an idea of what happened and how well the session went off.