Orin, B.U. punting, and Joelle — "Joelle when he’d met her already…"
Joelle when he’d met her already owned some modest personal film equipment, courtesy of her Personal Daddy. And she now had access to nothing if not serious digital gear. By Orin’s sophomore year she no longer twirled or incited Pep in any way. In his first full season she stood behind various white lines with a little Bolex R32 digital recorder and BTL meters and lenses, including a bitching Angenieux zoom O.’d gone and paid for, as a gesture, and she shot little half-disk-sector clips of #78, B.U. Punter, sometimes with Leith in attendance (never Himself), experimenting with speed and focal length and digital mattes, extending herself technically.
Context
Joelle crosses to the other side of the apparatus: she quits twirling — quits being the watched thing — and takes up the Bolex, the meters, the lenses, and the Orin-bought Angenieux zoom, doing real technical work on speed, focal length, and mattes. Leith attends her shoots; Himself, pointedly, never does. The performer of the Entertainment trained first as its kind of maker.