This is the How, What, Where and Why of the Creation of the BBS Documentary.

When I set out to make this documentary, I naturally did a lot of searching for information about production, to see what I could learn. I'd been to film school (Emerson College, Class of 1992) but I knew the world had changed in the decade since, and I didn't want to miss out.

What I found was that there wasn't a lot of "this is what I did and why and how I did it" sort of material that was easily findable. I ended up having to make a lot of stuff up as I went along, learning and then relearning from my own mistakes. I resolved to put up some sort of resource from my own experience, so maybe some filmmakers down the line would be able to benefit.

MUSIC USED IN THE DOCUMENTARY

The BBS Documentary uses the music of over 25 artists across all the episodes to provide background sound and environment to the main stories. Some episodes lack any music, while others are swimming in it. The music page provides copies of all the music used in the episodes, down to the individual songs, as well as the thinking behind the selections.

DEDICATIONS IN THE PRODUCTION

This is a bittersweet document; an expansion/explanation of all the names of the people the various episodes are dedicated to. There are eight episodes in all, and seven have dedications to people (the eighth, COMPRESSION, has no dedications because I thought it wouldn't be tasteful). Here are the stories of the people each episode has been dedicated to, with hopefully a hint as to why I paired that person with that episode's theme. All these stories are sad in various ways, and I'm sorry there's nothing I can do about that.

EQUIPMENT USED IN FILMING THE DOCUMENTARY

I filmed the BBS Documentary basically alone through its four-year production, in far-flung locations throughout the United States and Canada. To accomplish this, I put together a kit of cameras, lights, and sound-recording equipment (plus a few other things) to give myself a studio in two bags, able to go on planes, in rental cars, and down the street (not to mention up stairs). I provide an explanation of the thinking behind my choices, along with some photographs.

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