Tyson Fechter
sublimitless@hotmail.com
Project: Professional Music?
I'm 20 years old, I'm from the San Francisco bay area, and I love raw uninhibited expression no matter what medium.
Reflections:
Disasters and Frustrations:
The first frustrations I encountered on my quest
for the finished product were struggles for a tangible topic. By tangible
I mean a topic that I could capture given the technical limitations that
were inherent to my project. I wanted the best quality sound as possible,
so I wanted to use a condenser mic and my laptop to record sounds. This
created a huge obstacle that affected what I could record because my laptop
runs out of battery power in 30 minutes. This was frustrating because
I had to sacrifice many ideas that I had in order to work with in the
limitations of the available technology. I did not want to sacrifice the
quality of the recordings.
The second, and largest, frustration came when after 14 hours of editing
did
Not get saved right. That was very disappointing to say the least. I had
to go back to the lab the next day and try to reproduce what I had originally
thought to be a great product.
Coping with technical difficulties:
I realized that I had to just let things play out how they did. The more
one tries to plan a documentary the less true it is to what one is attempting
to represent. Every piece of the documentary exhibits the culture, even
the flaws. Nothing is on accident. Even the use of
Polaroid film on night two is a commentary on how it is more spontaneous
and in the moment, less professional and planned. One is given the footage
that they are given for a reason. I learned that all I can do is show
the footage as best I can, rather than try to tell a story that is forced
and expected from the beginning.
Pleasures and Insights:
The most enjoyable part was actually the tedious task of editing. I could
see the story materializing before my eyes. A story that I had not anticipated
but was so true that I could not have distinguished it from reality. The
project becomes part of a personal experience that may only make sense
with n the context of those that it is culturally relevant to.
When you watch this documentary please absorb every detail: the blank
frames, the Polaroid's, the message in the song that was created in response
to the events of the first night. Thank you.