Welcome to a weekly torture technique concerning the heartwarming enlightenment to be found in the mouths and minds and pants of the modern struggling video artist. I will be conducting interviews with amateur video makers of the northwestern united states, as long as they live in Corvallis, Oregon, and are named Alan Winston. And they will be having sex with DVDs while i interview them.
Expect to enjoy decadent journeys towards truth and good movie making in this space. But don't hold the breath, por favor. no no.
PART 1: WHO IS ALAN WINSTON! ...?
WARREN: How would you like to be addressed online?
ALAN:
You can call me... eternal one. Ugh. Just Alan is fine, I suppose.
WARREN: What is your role at Bravado Entertainment?
ALAN:
That's actually kind of a tough question. My role has changed a lot over the years, and I'm not sure how much of a 'history lesson' sort of an answer you're looking for here.
WARREN: Fuck it. Tell me everything.
ALAN:
Ok. I originally formed the group all the way back in '91 with a couple of high school friends. Back then the focus was only on doing high school book report type projects - most of the people weren't interested in doing stuff if there wasn't a grade involved.
WARREN: yes.
ALAN:
So, I generally headed up every project, writing and directing almost all of them, providing the camera, and doing the best I could to edit stuff with two VCRs hooked together.
After moving on to college and KBVR-TV, I started the show, and that's where definite roles started to develop.
WARREN: Uh huh.
ALAN:
In the early days, I pretty much did it all - I was the main writer, director, editor, host, etc, and exerted a lot of control over what went on. But eventually, we attracted a bunch of new people who could take the production duties on their own, and that's kind of when we hit our stride.
WARREN: yes.
ALAN:
In terms of variety and the amount we produced, anyway. I kind of backed off to take an 'executive producer' sort of role. While I still produced my own videos I also helped everyone else with their movies, assigning ideas, coordinating meetings, introducing people to each other so that they could work together, and offering whatever acting/camera/editing help was needed.
WARREN: Uh huh.
ALAN:
Of course, I still pretty much kept final say about what went into the show and of the main storyline concerning the host and crew 'characters' that we played up until The End parts 1 and 2.
WARREN: which was very tasty and got you much respect. For part 2. So, what happend next?
ALAN:
I made the decision to end the show primarily because I figured that it might be a good idea to spend some time on trying to graduate from college, and sort of faded even more to the background. Producer-wise, anyway.
WARREN: Yes. Like the ninja. a ninja producer.
ALAN:
My role over that period was more of a facilitator than anything else. I made sure that everyone who needed access to cameras and the editor, or me as an actor, got it, but I didn't really undertake any projects of my own besides Vicious Circle, which I wouldn't have had time for if it weren't a school project.
And that kind of brings us up to where we are now.
WARREN: And where are we now?
ALAN:
Well. While we're still definitely a group, I am no longer the facilitator, since I don't have equipment or access. The group is kind of comprised of sub-groups, headed up by those who continue to produce their own movies. We aren't focused on cranking out a bunch of stuff to fill a weekly time slot anymore, so now, I head up the 'big' projects (Jedi 6), provide minor assistance to the sub-groups, and catalog and promote our collective efforts via the website. I think. Would 'figurehead' be a shorter answer? Heh.
WARREN: It sure makes it hard for me to shoehorn you. hmm
ALAN:
Well. Good.
WARREN:
Heh. I don't know why "Grand Dragon" comes to my
mind instead. Someone needs to take that fucking title
back. Might as well be you! For the People! Huzzah!
ALAN:
Huzzah! Grand dragon! Yikes. We know a guy who was
beaten by the klan... Hm.
WARREN: Wait, who was beaten up by the clan?
ALAN:
Jackson was one of the original high school castmemebers and one of the four people who started Delusions with me. A truckload of skinheads rolled up (Oregon has quite a number of neo-nazis and klansmen, they even sent recruitment letters to most of the students in my high school). They got in a fight, his sister and her bf got out of there, and Jackson attempted to hold them off. Fairly successfully. Luckily, a cop drove up and the skinheads ran away. The cop, for some odd reason, refused to chase after them or report the incident.
WARREN: Ok. so maybe grand dragon's time has not yet come.
ALAN:
How about 'president and
CEO'? Nice and corporate. Heh. Welk and Craig have
referred to me as simply 'the boss' in the past. How
about that?
WARREN:
Like springsteen? i don't see it.
ALAN:
...
WARREN:
Too general. Titles like "the boss" and "Figurehead"
make you sound like like you were all
talk and no sweat. I sense that you are being wildly
modest, and there is no fucking modesty on the
internet! You are the Big Project Director, the
general mentor, and the web archivist. wa-lah.
ALAN:
Well yeah. But it sounds better when someone else
says it.
WARREN:
I sense a trend of you preferring to stand behind
your work instead of in front of it. ...And maybe I'm
having trouble finding you in the middle of all the
things you do for other people.
ALAN:
Generally the work is more interesting. At least I
think so.
Welcome to a weekly torture technique concerning the heartwarming enlightenment to be found in the mouths and minds and pants of the modern struggling video artist. I will be conducting interviews with amateur video makers of the northwestern united states, as long as they live in Corvallis, Oregon, and are named Alan Winston. And they will be having sex with DVDs while i interview them.
Expect to enjoy decadent journeys towards truth and good movie making in this space. But don't hold the breath, por favor. no no.
PART 1: WHO IS ALAN WINSTON! ...?
ALAN:
That's actually kind of a tough question. My role has changed a lot over the years, and I'm not sure how much of a 'history lesson' sort of an answer you're looking for here.
WARREN: yes. 
ALAN:
In the early days, I pretty much did it all - I was the main writer, director, editor, host, etc, and exerted a lot of control over what went on. But eventually, we attracted a bunch of new people who could take the production duties on their own, and that's kind of when we hit our stride.
WARREN: Uh huh. 
WARREN: Yes. Like the ninja. a ninja producer. 
ALAN:
Well. While we're still definitely a group, I am no longer the facilitator, since I don't have equipment or access. The group is kind of comprised of sub-groups, headed up by those who continue to produce their own movies. We aren't focused on cranking out a bunch of stuff to fill a weekly time slot anymore, so now, I head up the 'big' projects (Jedi 6), provide minor assistance to the sub-groups, and catalog and promote our collective efforts via the website. I think. Would 'figurehead' be a shorter answer? Heh.
ALAN:
Well. Good.
ALAN:
Jackson was one of the original high school castmemebers and one of the four people who started Delusions with me. A truckload of skinheads rolled up (Oregon has quite a number of neo-nazis and klansmen, they even sent recruitment letters to most of the students in my high school). They got in a fight, his sister and her bf got out of there, and Jackson attempted to hold them off. Fairly successfully. Luckily, a cop drove up and the skinheads ran away. The cop, for some odd reason, refused to chase after them or report the incident.
WARREN: Ok. so maybe grand dragon's time has not yet come. 
WARREN:
Too general. Titles like "the boss" and "Figurehead"
make you sound like like you were all
talk and no sweat. I sense that you are being wildly
modest, and there is no fucking modesty on the
internet! You are the Big Project Director, the
general mentor, and the web archivist. wa-lah.
