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“Spin,” produced for $500 by Double Edge Films in Denver, an exercise in precision. Not a word, not a glance, not a spin or scratch on the turntable is wasted. And the story is memorable: Quite simply, it’s about a DJ trying to change the world around him—and succeeding … sort of.
The best eye candy is the record jock himself—Hayz II—who Winans discovered at a hip-hop show. Listening to Hayz motivated him to go home and write this short script. He then convinced actor friends to volunteer, enticed a couple of tough-looking guys he knew on myspace to play the thugs, and hit the streets with Hayz and his tables.
The film took five days to shoot on a Sony HDV camera, giving Winans “epic-looking footage for almost no money,” he says in the DVD’s director’s comments. The most exciting sequence are the CG effects about two-thirds into the film, giving it a rhythmic climax. “There’s this rhythm to the world; if you tape into the rhythm, you find something beautiful,” Winans says.
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