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December 31, 2008
Scene 62A
We shot a handful of scenes for St. Nick that were intended to denote the passage of time, all of them tied to various holiday imagery. But over the course of the editing process, I realized that time served the film better as an elusive abstraction, and all such concrete pinions never even made it into the first cut.
Here, though, in honor of today's date, is a scene that was supposed to represent the turning of the year:
That bit of music is from Lubo Fiser's lovely score for Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders, which I always imagined playing over this scene - early indication, perhaps, that it would be hitting the trim bin. Still, for all the scenes in the finished film that weren't in the script, this one actually was:
This is, I realize, a rather inauspicious debut of official footage from the film. Oh well, whatever. There's a lot more where that came from.Posted by David Lowery at December 31, 2008 3:34 AM
Comments
Ah! But you failed the coolest part! All the celebrators were ST NICK crew!
Posted by: Adam Donaghey at January 1, 2009 7:06 PM
Lovely post. I'm tempted to excerpt a bit from Fiser's score too, as it is so elastic. I'd be curious to see more posts for other scenes too.
Posted by: Michael Lieberman at January 4, 2009 12:01 PM