Production
History
Development:
- The Hidden Parts screenplay achieved a measure of success
when it finished among the top five screenplays in the student
competition at the 1994 Austin Heart of Film Festival. It was also a
finalist in the 1993 Hispanic Film Project, sponsored by the Hispanic
Media Coalition and Universal Studios.
Pre-production:
- In the winter of 1994, key collaborators including director of
photography Tom Chandler, sound recordist Jean Claude Thibaut, and script
supervisor Sandra Wood were recruited and began preparations for production.
- More than 20 casting sources were contacted and almost 40 actors
were either interviewed or auditioned for the four principal roles in
Hidden Parts.
- The car cleaner's work area was created from scratch after visiting
actual detail shops and talking to professional auto detailers.
- Joaquin Aranda, who played the film's car cleaner, also spent time in
a detail shop researching his role. Aranda's involvement with Hidden
Parts goes back to the spring of 1994 when a portion of the script
was shot and edited on videotape. The filmmakers used this early version
to perfect the script and identify potential production bugs.
Production:
The production of Hidden Parts melded old and new schools of
filmmaking.
- On the traditional side, the film was shot on 16mm color negative and
edited on an upright Moviola, a dinosaur in the age of Avid and other new
editing technologies.
- The film did move into the digital camp to ensure that it would be as
pleasing to the ears as to the eyes. The sound was recorded on one of
the few digital Nagra recorders in the Bay Area, which stores sound using
binary code.
- Although initial sound editing was done the old fashioned way, using
16mm magnetic tape, the final soundtrack was mixed using ProTools digital
editing software and the original digital source tapes. Instead of
cutting and splicing hundreds of feet of magnetic tape, the digitized
sound was arranged and refined on a computer screen.
- The film was shot in a San Francisco automobile detail shop and at
several locations throughout the city. The detail shop is housed in a
building that once served as a neighborhood parking garage, its role in
Hidden Parts.
- Principal photography began Friday, February 3 and ended Wednesday,
February 8, 1995.
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