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The Class of 1972

Behold "The Class of 1972" film project I finished just 14,475 days after I began production on my last day at Whittier High School on June 15, 1972. In this "Director's Cut" I've added some fun footage at the end that was previously left out of my initial edit along with a dedication to the graduating Seniors in the class of 2020. They unfortunately experiencing a very strange end to their Senior year due to the COVID-19 shelter-place orders in California and much of the USA. My friends have asked me about how I produced the film and how long it took (ignoring the five-decade gap) to edit it. I've also been asked if the graininess and scratches in the old 8mm B&W footage was created by a modern day digital filter — so here are some answers: Believe it-or-not, this was my first-ever hands-on video edit. I figured out how to use iMovie during the weekend I edited it with the help of my artistically-gifted and tech-savvy daughter Sofia Pfanner. However, I have been in many video edits as either a creative director or a producer during the past 30 years years so I had a pretty good sense of what I was trying to achieve. I also had 14,740 days to develop a final concept... As for using a digital "filter", there is none. Most of the film was very badly faded and scratched from being stored in various grarages in a half-open film box for more than 40 years. Sadly the initial three feet of film was too faded and scratched to be usable. It is such a pity because I'm sure there was magic in those frames from the faint faces I could see. I guess this proves that you should not put a project off for 48 years because there are consequences... As for the hours it took, I can break it down into two periods of production. After the film was transferred to video in 2016 my then-high school art student daughter Sofia helped me do a rough cut for pacing so I could record the VO on my iPhone. That took about four hours over two weekends. It was made easier by the fact the film was already linear in telling the story. Remember that it was shot on 8 mm film and 17-year-old-me wanted to minimize editing time back in 1972 given the limitations of technology then. Surprisingly, I did the VO back in 2016 in one take with no script. Only two key sections were given multiple reads to leave me choices in emotional tone. I left out about 30 seconds of the narration to give the images room to tell the story without my endless babble. I just went with what was in my heart and the words flowed easily. That could be down to 48 years of pent-up intention and creative yearning. I really wanted to finish before I left this life and the current COVID-19 pandemic added a new sense of urgency, LOL! Anyhow, a week before the editing I came across all the files on my computer while searching for something to post for the high school yearbook salute to the Senior class of 2020. After posting the raw intro video pan of my 1972 yearbook without sound, I realized that I am not getting any younger. With Sofia's encouragement and her suggestion of several YouTube instructional videos for iMovie editing I was ready to get my Ken Burns mojo on. I couldn't access the original edit on our old desktop iMac so I had to start over and create a new edit. The process took me a little longer than someone experienced would need since I am old, slow and easily confused but in the end, it was about 8-9 hours over two days plus add another hour for today's revisions. I was fortunate that I had some nice royalty-free music in the iMovie program and on my computer from client projects a few years back. I selected tracks with the appropriate vibe to serve as anthems for each segment with the intention of creating symmetry for the core emotional themes that occur at the beginning and end of the film. Some of the most damaged footage was used after all the credits with a slight color tint to give it more visual mass since it was so blown out. I am glad so many of you enjoyed it—especially my cool WHS classmates and our wonderful teachers. I still feel emotionally connected to Whittier High and I will be #foreveracardinal. In hindsight I am still amazed that I went directly from Whittier High into my lifelong career in motorsports media and marketing with only a brief distraction from my spectacularly awful few months in college. The lessons that I learned at my high school have taken me far: 1) Relationships are all you really have in life; 2) Quality is a mindset that attracts opportunity; 3) Believe in who you are and don't let anyone talk you out of it — especially yourself; 4) Life works with commitment and it does not work without it. Thank you to everyone from Whittier High who has reached out to me. It has been a joy reconnecting with my friends from so long ago.