I will be making a documentary on vancouver's scenes

[ppcock]

Yup, i've decided to actually do something with my life and well, i am passionate about electronic music.

So in the next weeks/months, I'll be running around to various clubs and showcasing vancouver's various scenes. Starting from the clubs featuring house, trance, technos and onto the underground and mainstream parties.

I will be conducting interviews with promoters, dj's and turntablists.. Just so people that arent in the know.. are in the know.

our scene has been trashed with the media featuring overdoses rather than what we all go to parties for.. The music.

In hopes to submit it to a film festival and probably get eaten out by critics or have some good reviews.

If you are a promoter and are willing to let me and a few camera guys come in and do some reports about who you are, what the music means to you and a bit of the business sense, please let me know and i'd be more than happy to conduct some interviews while the music is pumping.


I want to start off with the vancouver scene, just for a test.. because in the next year i'm going to do a little tour of the world visiting places as Sensation, Love parade and maybe to ibiza. If i can get a really well done project here I can hopefully send it out to contacts at different places and get another documentary done.

[Edoe]

i'm curious to see how this goes.

[cinist]

pimp..

[Revolver]

is this going to be your first doc?.....

[Ms.Tarantula]

thats wicked...

its always a good thing when someones willing to go against the grain and show the world what the underground is really like, dispite the stereotypes.

word!

[b0ld]

Hrm.....

You might wanna check out the soma cafe this coming friday at 9pm... Every first fridays of every month they hold an idm/experimental type event. Last one was absolutely amazing. Also on may 18th I believe there is going to be a "harsh noise" event that I believe at the alibi.... So if you looking for some underground you probably wanna just check them out first.....

[FeelGood]

serious props marty.
this is going to take a lot of work, but best of luck to you.

[wishbone]

goodluck marty, any help you need let me know.
and by help, i mean any chance you can get me into any event where i can be your personal assistant and screw off and go enjoy myself, let me know.

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by ppcock

our scene has been trashed with the media featuring overdoses rather than what we all go to parties for.. The music.

all of us? that's not what i go for. maybe your documentary will uncover things like that. but yeah, good luck, i'll check out the finished product for sure.

[mapleleaf4ever]

Right on Marty! I'll check out the final product as well.

Originally Posted by Gusto

all of us? that's not what i go for. maybe your documentary will uncover things like that. but yeah, good luck, i'll check out the finished product for sure.

You just go for the underage girls in booty shorts don't you?!?!?!

[sidekick]

interesting idea. you should try to find every other documentary made about raves and watch it, just so you have a starting place to go from and don't say something or do something that has already been done. i don't know any names of documentaries, but i have seen snippets from many over the past few years...just so you know.

is this a solo project or do you have a group of people helping you out? documentaries are fucking hard work.

our scene has been trashed with the media featuring overdoses rather than what we all go to parties for.. The music.

remember that not everyone goes to the parties for the music...you should probably keep an open mind when heading into this documentary, because undoubtedly you are going to come across information and people that don't fit the 'go for the music' thing...i know a bunch of people who go just so they can have a place to do drugs, or used to know anyway...and that is a legitimate part of the rave scene. do you want to show that? i mean, there is a bad part to raves, too...are you going to show all sides, or just one? just a thought.

edit: also i <3 editing and post-pro...so if you need some help in that stage let me know. i got the ability to edit video on my powerbook with final cut pro and the space to store uncompressed video.

[fable]

Originally Posted by Ms.Tarantula

thats wicked...

its always a good thing when someones willing to go against the grain and show the world what the underground is really like, dispite the stereotypes.

word!

Although i fully support any persons endevours to spread awareness, showing the world what the underground is like is actaully NOT against the grain in the last decade or so. Mainstream media/culture consistently intercedes into any fringe movement whether art of fashion, to find "inspiration" (aka, find sources to BITE) and is through this process, and subsequent step of basterdization/exploitation/mutation transformation and every other "-ation" that the "status quo" recieves its cultural/societal identity.

WHAT IS against the grain, is providing information of fringe/grassroots/ underground communities in a non self serving manner, that doesnt put the artistic interpretation before the actaul content. Although any documentary piece has a strong subjective element, i find them of late suffering the same problems as conventional film.

All the same, this sounds like a cool endevour.

[ppcock]

Thanks guys/gals for your support.

I'm most likely going to have 2 camera people. One will also do the sound editing. If you'd like to do the video post pro.. I would deffinitely buy you food and drink for it.

[cinist]

^
you're welcome to get footage at our party on the 12th, if you can supply us with a copy. Though i dont think jeremy or i would want to be in any interviews or for our names or production companys name to be used at all in the final cut.

good stuff marty, best of luck

[Wood]

Originally Posted by fable

Mainstream media/culture consistently intercedes into any fringe movement whether art of fashion,

heh. agree, but rave culture is about as much a 'fringe movement' as ppcock is part of the 'mainstream media'.

good luck Marty, i'd like to be in your movie but i don't do full frontal. just so ya knows.

[Cdn_Brdr]

Originally Posted by Gusto

all of us? that's not what i go for. maybe your documentary will uncover things like that. but yeah, good luck, i'll check out the finished product for sure.

What... you mean guys like trance-luver who go to raves to pick up chicks? hahaha

How can I get poon at a rave everybody!?!?!?

[ppcock]

I doubt i'll be able to shoot on the 12th.
My friends are in school and wont be able to wrap up until the end of may, early june.

I'll be working on the outline, just going to wing the script.. kudos to all who want to be a part of it.

Wood, you wont have to do full frontal... everyone loves you for your ass.

[dj_soo]

sounds like a cool idea - you going to do interviews as well? Might want to interview some of the big names that come through and get their take on vancouver's scene

[ppcock]

Exactly.. Thats one of the subjects for sure.

It'll be hard to do the trance dj's though, usually promoters wont let you get close to any of them.

I thought i would've had to take a load in my eye to meet Yoji Biomehanika.

[dj_soo]

well, find something to focus on - it's easy to be too general especially if you'll be collecting a year of footage before cutting it together. or at the very least get an outline going like divide it into sections of genres or something.... would be cool to do like 4 20-minute sections on the different genre scenes in this city.

[vaporize]

Originally Posted by Cdn_Brdr

What... you mean guys like trance-luver who go to raves to pick up chicks? hahaha

How can I get poon at a rave everybody!?!?!?

lol i made that post when i was stoned... not meant to be serious, hey remember this is the internet :silly:

[ppcock]

That's a really great idea terence.

Trance luver.. have you read any of those replies on your thread? not one of them is serious.

[sNyx]

I'll give ya an interview. Name the night and follow me :)

[~*tct*~]

that should be interesting