tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63641742009-03-01T11:48:12.929+01:00We are Swedish journalist Johanna Mörtberg, photographer Ingela Hjulfors-Berg, marketing advisor Carl Larsson and filmmaker Mikael Andersson. We are working on a TV-documentary about why swedes love the music of Bruce Springsteen.johannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06004502183339104716noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6364174.post-90937843177312223492007-09-13T20:39:00.000+02:002007-09-14T20:53:57.407+02:00

Two weeks ago we found ourselves outside the Globe Arena, waiting for the ticket sale for the next Bruce Springsteen tour to take place. Johanna was first on the spot, Thursday morning she showed up, camera in hand to capture people in line, queing for tickets. On Friday morning Ingela showed up and the last 24 hours we did a lot of filming also. Olle Sjöström was our talented sound tecnichian

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It's been a while since the last report. A lot of things has happened, I feel a bit embarrased that I haven't written a single line about Mission:project, and all that I've learned during the sessions at Kamera&Bild. To make a long story short, we met five times during the spring and had discussions about our various projects with Olof Glemme, teacher in Photography at Konstfack and Anna Clarén,

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It's been a while since we last updated this webbsite, but we've been laying low, having our hands full with everyday life.But now this project is moving into a new position. Johanna has been selected by the swedish magazine Kamera & Bild to participate in something called Mission:Project. Tha magazine is doing a series of articles about how to complete a specific photographic project. It's not

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Finally we've recieved a positive response to our search for money. Film i Västerbotten has agreed to support us! We get to borrow camera, light- and sound equipment and we can also use their computers for editing. But the best part is that FiV will be supporting us with 27000 SEK! We're so happy for the money because this means we can actually begin filming again. This is great news for us and

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The activity on this page has been rather low, we haven't succeded in getting any financing for our film yet. We recently got turned down by Konstnärsnämnden, so we haven't done much since we don't have any money to film or edit. But Mr. SPringsteen himself has been all the more active. The new cover album, The Seeger sessions will be out on April 24th and he's coming to play in Stockholm, at

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Things are moving. On Saturday, November 12th, we're going to pitch our idea for Filmkontakt Nord. It's a meeting where we'll get to know if our project has potential to reach the Nordic audience and if so, we'll get some coaching about how to proceed and where to look for financing. Read more about Filmkontakt Nord.This meeting is being held during a filmfestival for documentaries in Stockholm.

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We've been working on our film project for almost two years. From the start it was just Mikael and Johanna, but now we have enlisted two new members to our team. Ingela Hjulfors-Berg is a journalist and filmmaker and she's going to be our photographer and editor. Carl Larsson is a business school graduate and web consultant and he's going to take care of the marketing and financing of our

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During the past week there has been a lot of attention on our film project. The interview from last month has resulted in an article in the Asbury Park Press, the local newspaper in New Jersey. Apart from that the film is Mikael's idea and that he asked me to join the project, it was a good article by swedish journalist Anders Mårtensson.There's also been an article in Metro and a longer version

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This has been a weekend that won't fade away easily!It started on Thursday, Mikael and I were travelling in different cars to Gothenburg. Due to traffic jam we got there too late to film and we had some trouble with the tape to Mikael's camera. We ended up being regular audience only, with no shooting except fore some still pictures.Anders and Martin in front of Scandinavium, Gothenburg.The crowd

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So, it's just 24 hours before Bruce Springsteen will play in Sweden again. Our preparations for a hectic weekend with concerts in Gothenburg tomorrow and Stockholm on Saturday seems to be in order. We're going by car to Gothenburg tomorrow and we will be there in time to do some shooting outside the arena and to meet with our fans that we have interviewed before. After the show it's straight back

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Things are moving fast now. Yesterday Johanna was in the papers, the article from TT Spektra is out. The article has so far been published in the two Stockholm papers City and Metro but it will probably show up in other papers too in the next few days.We just got word from Jon Landau management that they turned down our request for an interview, but we're not giving up. On Thursday next week we

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Today our project took another step when Johanna was interviewed by TT Spektra. TT Spektra is a Swedish news agency that produce articles that local papers all over the country can buy. This feature article will be available from the next week, but it will probably be published in papers close to Springsteen's two concerts in Sweden on July 23rd and 25th. We talked a lot about why Swedes love

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Two days ago we had our promoparty in a cellar vault in the Old Town. Mikael had come from Västervik and we spent many busy hours arranging everything for the big night. This included carrying loudspeakers and other musical equipment across the cobblestones of Old Town. It was hard on our backs, but we made it. Our biggest thanks to Staffan who let us borrow it! Then Johanna went to meet Hans

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It's only two days until the opening night for Candy's Room. the past few days have been very busy, we've applied for money from Film i Vasterbotten and it was a hard job getting all the papers ready. But now it's done! The rest of the time I've spent writing a press release, contacting the media about the event and arranging all the stuff we need for the party. Hopefully we'll get everything

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The past few days have been busy. I've been working a lot with Candy's Room, organizing the party, making sure we have all the equipment, updating webbsites and writing pressreleases. But I got a nice break when I got a phonecall. It was journalist Anders Mårtensson who wanted an interview about our film. Anders is based in Hässleholm, but with photographer Jörgen Johansson he has been

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The plans for our Club Candy's Room are ready.Thursday May 19th we'll open the gates to the party which will be held at Själagårdsgatan 21 in Gamla stan, Stockholm.7 p.m. Welcome to the party!Chat with your friends, have a snack and listen to good music.8 p.m Viewing of our filmWe show our pilote film, present our documentary and there will be time for Q & A afterwards.9 p.m Live musicHans

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Yesterday me and my friend Ingela, who is visiting in Stockholm, went to the Dreamfactory, a mini festival about film and filmmaking. It started out very nicely, when Calle my boyfriend called a cab, it proved to be Morgan, a Brucefan that Mikael and I had interviewed for the film, who was behind the wheel. Morgan works as a taxidriver and now he took us to Filmhuset for the festival party. There

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We've got good news! We have confirmed an interview with E Street Band-member Garry Tallent! All we have to do now is raise the cash for a trip to Nashville, with a stop in New Jersey too. To get some money into our project we have decided to launch a club evening here in Stockholm. Thursday May 19th, at seven o'clock pm we open the gates to Candy's Room.We've rented a cool place at Gamla stan,

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We've been catching our breath after a few hard days of work. After the ticket sale was announced, Mikael and I had a hard time getting our hands on a camera, but we managed to borrow one mini-DV from Svante, a friend of my boyfriend's. Thanks to Svante we had the equipment so we could film during the ticket sale.The line starts here. I got to the Globe arena early Sunday morning, got myself a

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Today it's official. Ticketrelease for Bruce Springsteen's two concerts in Sweden will take place om Monday, April 18th. Already fans have gathered around the Globe arena, to stand in line for tickets. Hopefully we're going to make our way there too, to take pictures, film and talk to the fans. We're a bit jumpy too, you can only buy two tickets per person, so it's going to take som effort to get

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After four days of hard work in Umeå we are back in Stockholm. With the great help of our friend, Ingela Hjulfors-Berg, we have a six minute long pilot film.The initial difficulties were solved after a good bit of reorganizing of the material. We managed to edit it in a better way and we were quite proud of ourselves by lunch time on Saturday. But then we ran into more problems as we were going

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We are in Umeå now, we've been here for two days, working on our trailer for the film. Thanks to our good friend Ingela we've been able to come up here for the editing. Yesterday we spent a good part of the day logging material into the computer. We had some trouble getting the different tape recorders and other stuff to work together, but after finding the right cables we made it all work. Today

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Since the convention in Rågsved, there has been quite a few fans who has showed interest in supporting our film financially. Therefore we've established an account, where people can deposit money to help us finish the documentary. It's a so called postgirokonto and the number of the account is PG 152 54 65-9. So far it's only possible for swedish citizens to put money in this account, but should

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Yesterday we went to Rågsved, one of the southern suburbs in Stockholm, to attend the very first swedish Springsteen convention. At noon sharp, we were among the first to enter. The venue soon was filled with fans eager to watch Brucevideos, listen to lectures and enjoying the atmosphere. People are arriving at the convention.Mattias, one of the persons who arranged the convention, talked about

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Hi!There's been some time since the last report, but now things are starting to come together again. Bruce Springsteen is releasing a new album in April, but already this weekend swedish fans are gathering for the first convention ever to take place in our country. The convention is going to take place at Rågsveds Folkets hus tomorrow, February 19th, and there will be cover bands, lectures and a

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