"They are not costumes," Watt White assured me as he glued a robotic mask to his face, "they are uniforms." After producing two CDs that failed to get the attention of the music industry, Watt had a new concept. I had known him for years and always thought of him as talented musician and a pretty normal guy - but what I saw on stage shocked me. He had morphed into a seven-foot tall cyborg named "Machine." "Badger," half-man and half-beast, wore chains and played drums from inside a cage. "Necromancer," the bass player, doubled as fortune teller who communicated with the spirits of the dead. By day Watt sold athletic footwear, but by night he became a superhero, taking on the forces of the record industry in search of a record deal. His transformation and dream of success inspired the making of Rock & Roll Superhero. Production of the documentary began with weekly trips into New York City for rehearsals and auditions for new band members. Watt was accompanied by his roommate and bass player, Jay, one of those bad boys your mother warned you about. "Is this cigarette going to bother you?" he would ask as he rolled down the windows. "No problem," I said, even though it was winter and Jay was driving about 85 miles an hour, weaving dangerously through traffic. As wind and smoke blasted in my face, he would crank up the stereo and regale us with tales of his latest sexual exploits. Ahead of us, in the city, lay months of auditions, rehearsals, and meetings that would eventually culminate in a showcase in which Watt would perform for nearly every major label in the music industry. Along the way I filmed auditions, rehearsals, recording sessions, trips to the hair dresser - anything and everything Watt did. Certain moments, comments, and pieces of footage which seemed boring or irrelevant at the time later turned out to be important parts of the story. But it always took months to gain this perspective. My philosophy was "shoot everything and figure it out later." In the meantime, hours and hours of tape were piling up. Over the course of three years, I shot over 230 hours of footage and transcribed about 1,500 pages of notes by hand. All of that detail paid off in the edit room, enabling the footage to be cut down into a tight 89 minute narrative. My initial goal was to explore the idea of being a Superhero in the literal sense; why was he wearing this costume? Eventually, as Watt and his music evolved to the point where the costumes were discarded, that all changed. Rock and Roll Superhero examines the spirit of dedication, sacrifice, and personal heroics involved in making anyone's dreams a reality, yours and mine included. -Peter O. Devin