When I was attending Long Beach City College, sometime between 1995 and 1997, I started working on Westside N 'Ja. I shot all the scenes fine, but never finished the film altogether. On this site, I will showcase some of the videos that was shot and put together.
Westside N 'Ja is unifinished work, though my first big production. The film's budget was $3000 which included post production cost.
When I was in post-production with Westside N 'Ja, I was working at Long Beach City College. I used professional video tape, Panasonic DVC-PRO. When I left the job, I was 20 minutes into the movie and have not had professional access since. Now DVC-PRO VTR decks are $30,000 each. The only place I can transfer my video is at a post-production facility. For $35 each tape, I can slowly convert all of my DVC-PRO footage onto a DVD. Then from DVD, I can convert the video into DiVX.
The audio has not been sweetened. The audio dubs has not been done either. Most of the people in this film I've lost contact with since "1994" and "1995". So, it will never been done.
Fortunately, since I do have the original DVC-PRO tapes, I will be able to archive the videos on my web site where I can share with the rest of the world, my videos that have been collecting dust since I've stored them.
NOW FEATURING the unfinished Westside N 'Ja (Tape S1-EM)
