Reel Old School 12 years old

Reel Old School is a documentary made by college students John Cotton and Brady Effler. It investigates the transition in the music recording world from analog to digital. Interviewing well known musicians and engineers such as Steve Albini (The Pixies, Nirvana, Shellac, Bush) Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) Bil VornDick (Bob Dylan, Alison Krauss, Marty Robins, Bela Fleck) Claire Lynch (IBMA Vocalist of the year) Derek Webb (Independent Christian artist) among many less known independent artists and engineers. Showing correlation between the democratization of recording technology and the fall of the music industry. As well as highlight two conflicting paradigms. The analog paradigm of devotion and dedication to craft and the digital paradigm with the dividing of life into app sized proportions.

Credits

Reel Old School Cast

Name Character
Steve Albini He was 50, now 62 years old as Himself
Claire Lynch She was 58, now 70 years old as Herself
Chris Walla He was 36, now 49 years old as HImself
Bil VornDick as Himself
Derek Webb He was 38, now 50 years old as Himself

Reel Old School Crew

Name Department
John Cotton as Director. He was 426 (67) years old when He died Directing
Reel Old School (12 years)

  • Release day: Monday, August 13, 2012
  • Runtime: 86 minutes
  • Budget: 5.00