I started my next documentary restoration. Each one gets more complicated and prepares me for the next. This was originally made in 2006 and, as usual, with no budget. The former 1270 security head, Bruce, found all sorts of photos and some very rough video about the club, its owner and the people who went there. I had a clip taken from a memorial video that showed many of the old gay bars in Boston which wasn't ideal but it was all I could find. 20 years later, there is a lot more info on the web but still not as much as I would like. I went through photos, newspaper and magazine ads and found a good 20 logos I could clean up or redraw and give a consistent look too to replace the bad video with something more professional. In 2011 I re-edited the 2006 version and took out some bad graphics of my own and this time I hope to do more of that and elevate the doc closer to today's standards. I discovered Final Cut Pro will isolate the voices and it took out the background music which will give me more options for re-editing the film as the original interview files are long gone.
2 comments:
I have never been a bar person but I bet a bunch of folks in the gay community of Boston would be really interested in this. The logos feel like you made them look a lot better than they originally were? I wouldn't know. I've only been to a handful of gay bars (three?) and they tend to have a hand made feel to them. Nicely done!
Some were very well done especially considering they were done long before we use computers, so they were all hand drawn precisely. Many place changed logos every ad they placed it seemed or just never had any kind of branding at all graphically. Bars were the only place to meet other gay people and even then I was in bars that got raided all the time since they were illegal until the 80s! I think the reducing them to black and white does make them look nicer than maybe some of them were....
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