You would think you take a script and make a film. The story is fixed. But give the same script to different directors, actors, film editors and you will have two completely different films. How does that happen?Because directors interpret the scripts and extract the qualities they want from each actor. The same line – “what […]
Madiu Chute, film editor, is working on the rough cut of Sidetracked. Editing will continue for the next several months. Here is her report this week.”Currently, I am working on locking the picture, making sure everything is where it needs to be before we go in, and clean up the audio and the shots.”Note – […]
As the Sidetracked film opens, the camera pans the distressed neighborhood up the restaurant door where college student Mari waits tables. She narrates from the future, forty years later. Here’s what she has to say.
When Bill and I first came to town, (yes we hitchhiked here in July 1980) we regularly heard The Decentz, a local punk rock band. The Decentz played the bars where we would have a few drinks and hang out after midnight, when we finished our shifts, waiting tables.Pamela Polston, lead vocal for the group […]