X-Mark
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Apr 28, 2004, 1:29 AM
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Opinions, please: National Anthem, abridged?
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I was working on a documentary shot on location at a couple hockey games, and in editing it, I found our "money shot" in the whole piece to be a woman singing the National Anthem. For a no-budget DV documentary, the shots we got of that were amazing. There was a great shot where we see her in silhouette in a spotlight with smoke billowing around her. I thought it may have made up for some admittedly so-so camera work in the rest of the piece. Everyone I show it to loves the shots, but they keep telling me that I shouldn't show the whole National Anthem. That also came up in a couple festival reviews.
Now, am I nuts here, or isn't there some sort of unwritten rule that you never excerpt the National Anthem or other songs like that? I could have sworn that it was some sort of unspoken universal directive, but I seem to be the only one who believes so. I don't think I, or anyone else, would have wanted the scene excised from the film at all, but you can't just show part of the National Anthem, can you?
Of course, the whole sequence could be not worth keeping... I am getting the malaise of lukewarm festival reception running through me at the moment...
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