October 12, 2005
One last thing about 48 Ribs. Following up on something I said a few posts back, I've put the unused footage that originally made up the ending to the film online.
It's a 30 second sequence. I cut it because it was mostly redundant, although that redundancy also allows it to stand alone to some extent. The shots go by a little too quickly, and that I apparently couldn't decide on set between shooting handheld or a tripod is pretty annoying; but I like the details the images contain, and all the implications that go along with them, and how, with two exceptions (which are more directly linked to the full cut), each shot answers a question retrogressively posed by the one preceding it. It's a mirror to the rest of the film. Which, of course, is partially why I cut it.
The full version will be online eventually, but I've got other plans for it until then. Just this afternoon, I decided to let it and Some Analog Lines shoulder a great deal more weight than I originally intended them to...
But enough about those films. It's time to shift a bit more focus to The Outlaw Son, which is fifty-percent cast and is tentatively scheduled to begin shooting the very moment this semester is over in December. Because I like to pretened to be trendy, I put up a MySpace page for the film. So if you're into all that, please accept this invitation to be my friend, or whatever.
Posted by David Lowery at October 12, 2005 01:01 AM
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I can't tell you how pleased I am you didn't include that in the film.
Posted by: Matt at October 12, 2005 05:21 AM
I should have mentioned, too (for the few people who've seen the film, who'll be the only ones able to contextualize this footage) that it wasn't the actual original ending per se - there was a two or three minute scene before this sequence that was cut as well.
Posted by: Ghostboy at October 12, 2005 07:44 AM
Wow. How long was the original cut?
(I like what you wound up with.)
Posted by: Matt at October 12, 2005 04:20 PM
The first cut (with the longer ending) was about thirteen or fourteen minutes. The cut you saw was just under eleven minutes. And the final cut is pretty much ten on the dot.
The original ending was a really lovely scene, but it felt like the conclusion to a different film. It was the first thing to go.
Posted by: Ghostboy at October 12, 2005 10:19 PM