How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Oct. 11th, 2010 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janradderOkay, I might be a tad bit late on this, but I'm not sure if it really matters at this point because I've been late on pretty much everything for the past 4 months or so (case in point -- I only just mailed both my mom and my dad's birthday presents. My mom's birthday is at the end of July and my Dad's is at the beginning of August, and yes, both gifts had been bought and were sitting on a shelf waiting to be taken to the post office since both of their respective birthdays). Anyway, I've been pretty much absent from lj since May (or maybe even April) and it's because I've been working as the supervising producer of a documentary about the Replacements called Color Me Obsessed.
I got the job a couple years back (I think it was that long ago) when an old friend, Gorman Bechard, inherited the doc from another director. I'd worked for him over twenty years ago as a production assistant, assistant editor and lighting director when I was fifteen and sixteen (you can lok me up on IMDB if you don't believe me). After taking over the film, Gorman starting asking me questions about who to talk to in Minneapolis and what places were important and what would be a good time to come out here to do interviews. Eventually, he said, why don't I just hire you and have you coordinate everything in Minneapolis and Chicago. So that's what I did.
In May I set up something like 47 interviews for the first week of June. Among the highlights were Grant Hart and Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü (being the huge Hüsker freak I am, this was probably the highlight for me), Terry Katzman of Garage D'or Records, Kevin Bowe (a Twin Cities musician who'd seen what might have been the first ever show the Replacements did as the Replacements), and Carleen Stinson (former wife of Bob Stinson).
In July I went out to L.A. where we interviewed a few celebrities (Tom Arnold and Dave Foley) and a bunch more fans (and where we also got stood up by Love and Rockets co-creator, Jaime Hernandez. In The Mysterious Case of Jaime Hernandez, he agreed to do his interview outside him home. However, the address he gave did not actually exist and no one in the neighborhood had any idea who he was. And then when we called him, he never answered the phone -- it didn't even go to voice mail. And the same happened for the next three days that we tried to get in touch with him).
Then, starting in August, with principal shooting done we started editing and that's pretty much all we did day after day until the end of September when we sent the close-to-final version to Sundance in the hopes that it will show there this coming January.
Right now we've got a few loose ends to tie up with editing and maybe an interview or two more, then on to the sound mix and color correction and everything will be one and set. And that means I actually have time now for something other than working on the movie (which, I must admit, was an incredible experience and one that I enjoyed every minute of. It was nice to be working in film again twenty-three years later).
I got the job a couple years back (I think it was that long ago) when an old friend, Gorman Bechard, inherited the doc from another director. I'd worked for him over twenty years ago as a production assistant, assistant editor and lighting director when I was fifteen and sixteen (you can lok me up on IMDB if you don't believe me). After taking over the film, Gorman starting asking me questions about who to talk to in Minneapolis and what places were important and what would be a good time to come out here to do interviews. Eventually, he said, why don't I just hire you and have you coordinate everything in Minneapolis and Chicago. So that's what I did.
In May I set up something like 47 interviews for the first week of June. Among the highlights were Grant Hart and Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü (being the huge Hüsker freak I am, this was probably the highlight for me), Terry Katzman of Garage D'or Records, Kevin Bowe (a Twin Cities musician who'd seen what might have been the first ever show the Replacements did as the Replacements), and Carleen Stinson (former wife of Bob Stinson).
In July I went out to L.A. where we interviewed a few celebrities (Tom Arnold and Dave Foley) and a bunch more fans (and where we also got stood up by Love and Rockets co-creator, Jaime Hernandez. In The Mysterious Case of Jaime Hernandez, he agreed to do his interview outside him home. However, the address he gave did not actually exist and no one in the neighborhood had any idea who he was. And then when we called him, he never answered the phone -- it didn't even go to voice mail. And the same happened for the next three days that we tried to get in touch with him).
Then, starting in August, with principal shooting done we started editing and that's pretty much all we did day after day until the end of September when we sent the close-to-final version to Sundance in the hopes that it will show there this coming January.
Right now we've got a few loose ends to tie up with editing and maybe an interview or two more, then on to the sound mix and color correction and everything will be one and set. And that means I actually have time now for something other than working on the movie (which, I must admit, was an incredible experience and one that I enjoyed every minute of. It was nice to be working in film again twenty-three years later).
