Re: Free Hands Friday with Dan Chapman posted
I'm honored to be asked as this week's FHF guest.
Google Hangouts definitely doesn't do justice to the clips and audio. This medium is so low rez and the music is so squeezed that it makes them hard to watch. But the ideas are there.
A couple clarifications:
When I say I dropped out of music school and became an artist, what I really meant is that I switched majors in college, from a music to art. The reason being that I couldn't read music very well. I felt I was so far behind all those music students who were classically trained to sight-read since childhood. So I switched to a subject that I had excelled at since I was a small child.
With the accordion picture of my three brothers, I described it as Emmett and three brothers. I meant two brothers, since I wasn't born yet in that picture or at the time of the accordion track.
After watching it, I realized I never answered Russell Keating's question about my goal for the film's end product. I am targeting a full release which includes everything from theatrical, broadcast, DVD to VOD/online.
I also regret not following through to play the segment entitled "To be or not to be?" that I had up on screen, which touches on a key point in the story. Featured in one of the clips is an interview of Diana Lange, his daughter, who is also shown briefly as young teen in a B&W pic with her sister Grace Chapman McCarty. I start off the clip with "Waking The Day" a song by Tom Griesgraber. And Kevin Keith is shown briefly playing in the Railboard clip.
Funny, we never mention Emmett by his full name, Emmett Chapman. I'm definitely too close to this project.
The hour went by very fast. I had so much more to show that I didn't have time to get to. A heartfelt thanks to Russell Keating, Matt Tate and Dean Pascarella for your insightful participation. So glad you were there. I'm so happy Jim Reilly could host it. No one mentioned that Jim played host despite having broken his collarbone playing hockey this week!!! Talk about pain. What a trouper! I'm very grateful.