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« On this date... | Main | Associated Press writer on basketball stars with guns »

Pretty tired

Posted by David Hardy · 27 October 2006 05:40 PM

I've got the documentary movie file to the DVD making firm. Should have the final proofs of the jacket within a few days. They're encoding it for the DVD right now, I just approved the layout for the chapter headings, looks real nice. Turnaround is 2-3 weeks from approval, so it looks like mid-November or a bit later. Also sent in an ad for the DVD to a gun magazine, and they want some tinkering with it (no word back yet on details).

In between all this, doing legal work to keep the wolf from the door.

Pretty tired, but it is coming together. After nearly four years of work (filming started in January 2003), it's about time.

The finished product is an hour and 51 minutes. It'll have twelve or thirteen professors of law, plus Dave Kopel, Steve Halbrook, Don Kates and Clayton Cramer. It covers the how the 2nd amendment was rediscovered by academia, history of the English right, the revolution and framing period, early commentators, the black experience and the 14th Amendment, and present relevance of the right (self-defense, genocide, political, etc.).

I've had some folks say 1:51 is too long, and some say no problem. Too late to change it, but what do you readers think on that?

· documentary film

7 Comments | Leave a comment

Sebastian | October 27, 2006 6:41 PM | Reply

No longer than a movie. I think it's fine.

Jay Kominek | October 27, 2006 10:08 PM | Reply

I can always fast forward, but it is hard to watch stuff you didn't include. (I assume there isn't a "deleted scenes" section of the DVD?)

Beerslurpy | October 27, 2006 10:30 PM | Reply

Can't wait to see it.

Rivrdog | October 27, 2006 10:34 PM | Reply

It isn't the length, it's the flow of the film. If it flows consistently, 1+51 is not too long.

BobG | October 28, 2006 11:28 AM | Reply

Have to agree with Rivrdog; the editing can make or break it.

rich | October 28, 2006 12:32 PM | Reply

Rivrdog is right if it flows it doesn't matter. If it doesn't then 15 minutes could be long.

years ago I saw Phantom of the opera on Bradway. It is 2.5 hours with an intermission at something like an hour, 30 minutes in, maybe an hour 45 minutes but when it happened no one realized hour long they had been sitting there.

Hope it flows :)

tom gunn | October 28, 2006 3:15 PM | Reply

David,

Have you told us how much you will be charging for the dvd and will I be able to use my credit card?

Will your faithful readers here get a loyalty discount? ;-)

I expect to be in Mesa by 11/03 - Can't wait!!!

I will be making a rivas ranch walk and Utah ccw class first thing.


tom gunn

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