BTS or as it is more widely known, “Behind The Scenes” is great. It gives audience members a feeling of “being there” on set with the crew, joking around, having a good time. The interviews will often give the audience a deeper understanding of the filmmaking process. Sometimes, the BTS footage on a film will do better than the movie itself. Lost in La Mancha is a documentary film that originally started as BTS. We watch as bad decision making, plus a good dose of bad luck, plague filmmaker Terry Giliam. His Don Quixote movie never saw the light of day but Lost in La Mancha is a film school staple on how not to run a production.
Sometimes the making of the movie is more interesting than the actual movie. This is how I felt about Mark Singer’s “Dark Days” about the homeless population in New York City’s subway system. Singer was so obsessed with his project that he actually became homeless in the process of trying to get the film made. He ended up moving into the subway with his reels of exposed film while he worked on getting the money to develop the film. He ended up getting DJ Shadow to do the soundtrack, which is a feat in itself for the reclusive musician. And while “Dark Days” is interesting and a well put together movie, the Behind the Scenes is astonishing.
I have Behind the Scenes for my senior thesis film “Dos Hermanos Tacos” which includes an amazing conversation between my DP and my Sound Guru about the mythology of Leprechauns. I still watch some of this footage for my own enjoyment, watching my friends act like idiots in the desert. In short, BTS is great.
Which is why we were shooting behind the scenes for our Quarter Orange Halloween special. We had this idea for this really spooky scene…well I won’t go into it much here, since we might use it next year, but suffice it say: It was going to be awesome. Until Robot got a surprise visitor. We were able to cut what little BTS we had together with an interview, immediately after the fact. Check it out.
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