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Filmmaker's Diary:
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Just got my computer back from the shop after three days. I was having it souped up for the job at hand. The brain trust at Best Buy was giving it a tune up, installing more memory and adding more storage space. I already had 100 gb, which is kind of a lot, but that fills up quickly when you've shot as much as I have. An hour of footage takes up about 14 gigs, and with a documentary, it's important to have a lot of captured footage at your disposal. I bought another 80 gb hard drive, but my Sony Vaio would have none of it. The fucker. Manny, my computer mechanic, said it would only recognize an extra 20 gig internal drive due to a motherboard limitation. I've been repeating that to everyone because I like saying motherboard limitation. It makes me sound all technical and shit. And being an actor I say it so that it sounds like I know what that means. Anyway, the 20 gb drive will have to do for now. But I ain't licked yet. I'll add more space or die trying.
Even when I wasn't working on post-production of this movie I was always thinking about it, mostly about how to present the story. I'm thinking of it as being told in different strands. Like hair [...only harder to cut! Ba dum pa!]. I have the movie broken up into different story lines:
* the story of Ned's
reaction to how the Last Show Ever went
* the history of PopCanon (including the relationships between all the members
and the trials and tribulations of life as indie artists in America)
* the camaraderie
between PopCanon and Squeaky
* the relationship between me and Ned, and
* of course, the actual story
of the last weekend culminating in the show.
But rather than try to tell these stories in a linear, chronological fashion, I'd like to take all the different hair strands and braid them together. Show Ned's depression directly after the show right along side the band's excited preparations for it, for example. Go back and forth from flashback to present time. And hopefully illuminate the overall theme of the project in the process. Hopefully. It's all still pretty unclear, but I feel in me bones that it's the way to go. These folks are pretty unconventional people. It would be wrong to try to tell their story in a conventional way. I'm kinda just saying this aloud so as to try and clarify it for myself, but I think it'll all come together as I slog on. I don't think I'm breaking new ground or anything, I just see it and I'm confident that it's there. I know a very interesting and funny story is inside all this footage, if only I can release it, like Michelangelo released David from the giant slab of ...