{"id":11256,"date":"2015-04-22T14:39:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2015-04-22T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:45:14","slug":"soundtrack-reviews-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11256","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack Reviews + Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FilmMusicReviews_square_pic\"<\/a>Just posted is a review of Jon Ekstrand\u2019s Child 44<\/a><\/strong> (2015) soundtrack music and an early review of Michael Brook\u2019s score for the IMAX 3D film Jerusalem<\/a><\/strong> (2013), both from Lakeshore Records.<\/p>\n

Coming later this evening is a lengthy review of Twilight Time\u2019s To Sir, With Love <\/strong>(1967) Blu-ray, but a short update on a few affairs.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been finishing up a short documentary over the past two months, and as a May 1st deadline looms, posts have been less frequent, since missing another festival deadline isn\u2019t possible. Well, it is, but it\u2019s not going to happen<\/em>, as this particular project\u2019s been in various states of completion for a while now.<\/p>\n

The original concept of BSV 1172<\/a><\/strong> was to shoot the innards and daily routine of a video store with a camera that, like the bricks & mortar rental shop, reflects what most critics and the general public feel is long gone and obsolete.<\/p>\n

A Monterey Herald piece<\/a> on Carmel Valley Video has store owners Peg & Pete Jones describing the uniqueness of their establishment to curious passersby, tourists, and a few that take photos of what more than likely no longer exists in their home towns or cities.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve said in prior posts, Toronto is unusual in having several video shops whereas most major cities of similar scale have far less, based on tallies at sites like International Independent Video Store Day<\/a>. Toronto isn\u2019t immune to the demise of the video store \u2013 in the last few months we lost Upstairs Video, The Film Buff East, Movie Art D\u00e9cor, and Barrie lost the massive Bandito Video<\/a> \u2013 but there are stores that continue to enjoy daily business from supportive locals.<\/p>\n

Aspects of the industry have been profiled in an assortment of documentaries, and (hopefully) coming to home video this year are James Westby\u2019s At the Video Store<\/a> <\/strong>(2015) and Mike Malloy\u2019s epic multi-part chronicle of the home video industry, \u00a0Plastic Movies Rewound: The Story of the \u201880s Home Video Boom<\/a><\/strong> (2014).<\/p>\n

I started my short in the fall of 2012, did reshoots and cut a teaser trailer in 2013, and between sporadic bouts of editing in 2013 and 2014, largely let it be because there were some technical aspects that had to be figured out, most involving layering and bouncing footage between analogue & digital mediums to get a specific look. There was also outright laziness, and the need to really think through how certain sequences had to be constructed get a specific look.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d probably shoot the film a little differently now, but the goal has been to complete the movie as close to the original concept as possible, and keep its design somewhere in the middle ground in which documentary narrative collides with experimental filmmaking.<\/p>\n

There are no interviews, no film clips, no ongoing narration, no talking humans. It\u2019s neither a nostalgia piece nor a chronicle of what was. It is an exploration of the daily nuances within a video store\u2019s operations (in this case, every nook & cranny of Bay Street Video<\/a>), but expressed with crackhead visuals and sound design.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a test to see if one can find a methodology to shoot in SD and make the footage workable in a HD environment. (If you\u2019ve seen some of the montages<\/a> I\u2019ve done for recent podcasts, you\u2019ll know the answer is yes.)<\/p>\n

At this stage, the film is pretty much fine cut, and will likely run around 25 mins. Between now and May 1st I\u2019ll post several film & soundtrack reviews, and in May there\u2019ll be interviews that have been idling on the hard drive because of time and space issues.<\/p>\n

(I\u2019m not sure what the norm is when it comes to the size of a short film\u2019s digital components, but as it stands, the raw footage, layered effects tracks, project files, and low-res test renderings of sequences within BSV 1172<\/strong> take up about 550GB. I suspect when the main & end credits are done, and a 5.1 sound mix is completed, it\u2019ll get closer to 1 TB.)<\/p>\n

Next week I\u2019ll also post either a still or a short video clip from the film in salute to National Canadian Film Day<\/a>, where rental & sales shops are coordinating a salute to Canadian films on home video. NCFD is Wednesday April 29th.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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