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August 12, 2008
Running Uphill (literally, at 8AM, every morning)
We've been keeping busy here, writing and editing and, yes, going running every day. Yesterday was a mad succession of phone calls and teleconferences, fueled by the buzz of one really great development meeting, and then I had to switch over to New York time temporarily to get that trailer we'd been working on ready for the band's press release this morning. Said trailer is now online at the band's site:
Now we're moving on to the documentary itself. Searching for a through line, as well as any stray audio that might sync up to all the 16mm footage. We have a few really cool ideas about how to handle this film, to make it something more than just another band-on-tour documentary - but then again, we're only one day into watching, categorizing and subclipping all the footage, so it could go anywhere. The film's director, Mike Torres, has given us an unprecedented amount of freedom - our direction, more or less, is to turn all this footage into a great film. We shall endeavor to do just that...
Meanwhile, I've got a great film of my own to polish up and get ready for scoring. And two great scripts to finish writing, and two great novels to finish reading. And some great memories to curl up inside of, all cozy like. Greatness abounds...except in the financial sector. That part's not so great. But when is it ever?
Posted by David Lowery at August 12, 2008 9:21 PM
Comments
Congrats on what looks like a great trailer. Okkervil River is one of my favorite bands, so I'm excited to see what looks like a cool documentary.
Posted by: Chuck at August 12, 2008 10:48 PM