4/11/92 Behind the Scenes Music Video of The Dead Beat III

I was recuited by a friend of mine, Lee "Rod" Roderick, to be the sound engineer on the production of The Dead Beat III, a series of video interviews with those that work in the horror film industry. We drove from the San Francisco Bay Area to the L.A. Basin to conduct these interviews over a weekend. I brought along a little camera and just did some taping between interviews. Notice that we taped in the house that Rainman was filmed in towards the end of the movie when Tom Cruise moves Dustin Hoffman to California. Also, you may recognize Frank Darabont, the now infamous director of The Shawshank Redemption. This trip was a lot of fun despite the little sleep and the constant trips to different locations, set-ups, tear-downs, fast food, and little sleep! Oh, and the best part of all... Frank took us all out to dinner on the last night we were there, to a big-table italian restuarant. The place was closed and we entered through the kitchen and were served like kings! It was great... pizza, pasta, anti-pasta, salad, bread. What a way to wrap up a production! The unique thing about this video is that I had no effects generator to produce the strobing (the stuttering, stop-frame look) effect. I would edit each frame one by one using stills from the source video. Very time consuming, much like stop frame animation. The music is by a band called Cracker.