An ongoing blog about the final days of post production for the Dance Documentary “SOLO: 1X2”, following six dancers as they create unique solos for themselves. The film screens at the Southern Theater on September 25 & 26, 2009. See Trailer. Get Tickets.

This Friday is the Day! There is a great article by Caroline Palmer in City Pages about the film. Well, we got the movie off the system onto a DVD. It plays fine on Mac DVD drives – I’m having a little trouble with DVD players. It’s an 8.5 GB disc, and those have never play well for me. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes long. I should get another half hour out of it, but it’s way too interesting to do that.

It screens this Friday, but we have more work to do. I need to score it, take care of some technical issues, get my rights bible in order, and cut that pesky half hour out of it. Still, I am going to enter it in a festival as a rough cut. The dead line for that is this Friday – everything happens on Friday. I will have a questionnaire at the screenings and I want input from the audience – I guess you could call it a focus group. This will help because our partners are the audience, and if they don’t want to watch it, why make it? I’ve always wondered why painters don’t hold focus viewings. You go to the gallery, look at the paintings, fill out a questionnaire, and then, based on the opinions gathered, the painter repaints the picture. I guess they get to be more pure then filmmakers. Damn the audience – full speed ahead.

I am going to cut this short. We are showing the film, but it is only half the journey, we still have to raise funds, finish it, and get distribution. Plus, I haven’t even told you the whole story of the shoot, and I have lots of interesting side bits to share. And so, with Rebecca’s kind permission, I will continue this blog until you can see the film in theaters – which may take awhile.

Abdo Sayegh & Mifa Ko

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Tags: documentary, Feature Film, filmmaking, Minnesota, Minnesota filmmakers, Minnesota Made, more, Perimeter Productions, Screening

This post was written by Robert Hammel, Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 1:09 pm and is filed under Directing, Diversionary Tactics, Events, Film Production, Made In Minnesota, Musings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.