Inside the 12in12 Confessional
September 8, 2009 at 10:34 pm | Posted in Mike Lavoie | Leave a CommentTags: fire pants, honesty, liar liar, virtue
It’s not easy to say “I’m sorry,” especially to someone you love. 12in12 blog followers, you know that I love you and would never do anything to hurt you, but my Catholic guilt is forcing me to confess: I have lied to you. As has someone else, who was raised with no discernible Christian guilt and will remain nameless – other than giving you this ancient Grecian riddle:
Who is it whose name starts with the “K” and ends with the “eith Boynton.” Therein lies your liar.
We said we’d make 12 films in 12 weeks, but we lied to you from the VERY FIRST FRAME. Yes, during the editing of “Old Love,” we realized we hadn’t gotten an establishing shot of the neighborhood. After keeping DP Robb Stey to film way overtime on the shoot day, we did not feel like asking him to come back to Brooklyn to shoot just three seconds worth of footage.
And then I remembered: I DID have three seconds of footage of the neighborhood. Matt Suter, the director of Carroll Gardens, in his infinite wisdom shot a bunch of B-Roll footage with our DP, Matt Ramirez. So I plugged in my ancient 320GB Lacie hard drive and listened to its tiny fan cough up two years of built up dust. Sure enough, once I opened up the Final Cut Pro file, there was a beautiful intersection of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn – circa Sept 2007. After that it was just a quick export to my desktop – the perfect crime!
One of these frames...
Is just like the other
So to the Matts – the uncredited cameo director and cinematographer of “Old Love” – 12in12 thanks you!
And to all of those we betrayed, this one’s for you:
Peter Cetera likes Peter Cetera even more than Mike Lavoie likes Mike Lavoie!
Posted with enduring and bottomless remorse by Mike Lavoie
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