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Paperboy is a student film I made back in 1990 in between spring and fall semesters. I shot it on half inch, standard resolution VHS-C Color Videotape. I then edited it again using two VCRs and the final product was washed out from the man back and forth edits crudely done between two VCRs. Then in 2020, right before the start of the pandemic, I revisited all of my student films and re-edited them digitally from the original VHS dailies to come up with the best version of Paperboy I could create though there were some lost scenes involving a maniacal boss played by a childhood friend who passed away in 2021 due to a heart attack. I actually prefer the 2020 version over the 1990 one, but if I could have saved his scenes I would have. All of the actors are amateurs and friends of mine when I was in film school. I was the Secretary of the Brooklyn College Science Fiction Society, and the interiors were shot in and around the club office on campus while the exteriors were shot in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. I have a cameo as a guy buying drugs who threatens the dealer. This is the only student film I wrote and directed, and it was a side project and not a class assignment. All of my other student films were shot on either color Super 8mm or black and white 16mm film as there was no digital technology back then. A few weeks later I got an internship at The Cosby Show though this film had nothing to do with it. It is what it is. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mark A. Rivera
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