Just as promised, I give you the first of what will be many, many videos of all stages and aspects of this production. Not those stupidly staged actor interviews that are boring and repetitive--I am going way beyond that. As much as possible, I am going to take you beyond "behind the scenes," and into the real day to day reality of making a movie.
These are the first videos, taken as we record the first song Paul Wall is doing for the movie. In the first one, we are talking about which track we are going to use behind the vocals, and the various issues that come with that (like how much certain beats cost, etc). Someone suggests Paul produce his own track, but he says he doesn't know how to lay a track, so I bust on him a little (FYI--the song playing in the background at the end is NOT anything we are using for the movie at all).
This is the second video. It's the first time Nils and I hear Paul actually rap the lyrics we wrote. We're pretty excited. For obvious reasons, I had to delete the audio so you wouldn't hear the song or lyrics, but I thought the looks on our faces were worth posting. The guy running the sound board is T. Ferris, Paul's manager.
Just so you know--the "studio" we are recording in is in T. Ferris' huge house in suburban Houston. They put the recording booth in the closet, and just use a spare bedroom for the sound board. It's fucking ghetto, but appropriate I guess.
I know this isn't a lot, considering that Greg took four hours of video, but almost all of it was just us sitting around or is boring as hell, or we'd have to mute the audio because we are talking about the song or its playing or something like that.
Once the movie is out in theaters, I'll be able to release about a dozen clips that I can't now, some of which are really cool. Greg got us on film picking the track we were going to use, discussing various changes, going over some other things I can't talk about now but you'll know when the movie comes out, etc. What's going to be so cool about that is that by then the movie will be finished, and in the minds of most people a solid, defined thing. But what these videos will show is not only how we got to the end result, but the decisions we made to get there, and how they could have been different. It's going to be really fucking cool.
And here is the YouTube channel for the movie, all the videos we post will be put up here. You can subscribe and follow that way if you want.
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