Close (to the Edit)
Can anyone else believe it’s been two months since Christmas? It feels more like it was two weeks ago. But, no, somehow, it’s now almost March, in the year of oh lawd two-thousand-and-twenty, and although it may not look like it, we’ve been busy. Busy on our butts, that is, editing Parkway of Broken Dreams!
For those of you wondering “where is this movie?” or “why haven’t I seen any new posts about what’s happening?,” here’s the short answer: The rough edit is basically done. We have an 85-minute version of Parkway of Broken Dreams that is almost ready to share–not with the world, mind you–but with test audiences and potential distributors.
We’re mainly piecing in the last bits of archival footage and B-roll and doing little tweaks on pacing–a cut here, a pause there–to make the storytelling in the film that much richer. We wrapped principal filming back in the fall, but did recently make a quick trip to Las Vegas recently to capture a little more B-roll and gather some more visual materials to include in the film.
Big shout-outs to longtime Vegas musician Rob Ruckus for letting us dig through his extensive record, photos, and video collection (this dude’s house is basically a Vegas punk rock museum), and to Theresa Holmes at Hooper Productions for digging up some archival photos that will fill in a some very important visual gaps in the film. (And if you have anything from our “Archival Photo & Video” needs list, we’re still accepting submissions!)
There’s still a lot of post-production work to be done, including sound mixing, scoring, coloring, etc., but we’ll be finalizing all of that after initial test screenings. And, hopefully, after we scrape up some more funds. The money raised through the fall 2018 Seed&Spark campaign has been well-spent, on travel, legal fees, equipment, etc. But we are in need of finishing funds to pay for some of the above-mentioned post-production work, as well as licensing fees for some of the footage we weren’t able to have donated to the project (and a big Parkway hug to all those who did generously donated their footage, royalty-free).
We’re a little behind our original schedule, but that’s the nature of journalistic documentaries: You’re never really finished–you just at some point have to say “that’s good enough.” With such a rich subject, we could have spent years making this film, but then it would probably become a six-part series or something crazy like that. But we have collected so much material, there’s definitely some future shorts or features on related topics to be made.
Until then, stay tuned for more news as we put this documentary (very carefully) out into the world for the first time…