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Part 20: The Self-Portrait

From Anna Alexander:

Sometime around the first day of the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 5), I lost touch with the publicist.  I hate nagging and constantly emailing/calling, but there comes a point where it becomes necessary. I knew that since he is primarily the film's publicist (Kaufman does not have his own) that he would be in Toronto working like a madman, so I hung tight, just waiting for any self-portrait update.  Scott would pass my desk every morning and his expression was like "anything yet?"  I had nothing.
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Part 15: The Acquisition

From Anna Alexander:

While the publicist was waiting to hear back from Kaufman, I thought I'd start bringing in some additional artwork,  "pick-up" in photo edit speak.  You never know if the editors are suddenly going to want a movie time-line or a sidebar, and you don't want to be scrambling at the end.  The Publicist had sent me a ton of screenshots from Sony Pictures Classics of Synecdoche, New York, which I logged into our Art Tracking database (every photo ever is onfile)- each image gets a name so we can keep track of them, like "16.11FF.kaufman.dl.55089."  "16" is for the Wired year, "11" is November, "FF" is feature, "dl" = digital low resolution, and the last sequence of digits are the art tracking number. I know, fascinating.  I then created a contact sheet for Scott and I to go over and make selects.

I also dove into some stock photography sites to see what was out there, just in case we're unable to get exclusive images and we need reference of Kaufman for an illustration.    I started searching our usual suspects: Getty, Corbis, AP, etc. I've included a sample of what a stock search for Charlie Kaufman looks like from Getty Images.

Part 10: Pictures from Synecdoche

Whenever we're doing a feature on a new pop culture release-- be it a movie, a record, a TV show, or game release--we always call in photo reference from the work in discussion. Often, these are just publicity stills that are handed out by the studio. Depending on the needs of the story, one or two of these shots will sometimes make their way into the finished magazine layout, sometimes they'll art a sidebar, and sometimes we simply use them as reference and choose not to print them at all. On September 2, deputy photo editor Anna Alexander requested the stills from Synecdoche. Here's what we got from the film's publicist about two hours later (I've left the WIRED photo-naming conventions on these thumbnails; 16 is for the 16th volume, 11 for the November issue, FF for "feature," Kaufman, well, you get the jist):
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