when the going gets tough, reality sets in. byron had recieved word that the vancouver school board had rejected my script. apparently something similar to my script happened not too long ago in vancouver, which i have no idea about, and now i cannot get the school i want. i think that maybe right now the best thing to do is shuter down. i will do this in fort mcmurray when the time is right. i still have vacation booked so i have to go through the vault and really think on which script i will persue next.

when the going gets tough, byron comes out and saves the day. it has been over two weeks since byron has contacted the vancouver school board looking to find me a school for 'monday'. finally they got back to him today! this is excellent news. once we have the school, everything else will be set in motion and i will be making my movie, finally. my cousin andrew who is PA'ing on this movie will be escorting me around to eleven schools tomorrow in hopes to find just one. i am very very excited and keep checking back for updates!

like i have feared, i probably will have to push back my filming dates. this is a major bummer to me. i would have liked that to go off without a hitch because i am very eager to make this movie and move onto others. but there is some good news to pass on, james schlittenhart has 'signed on' to do my film. he will dop my movie and he is super talented and i couldnt be more excited to work with him. james, byron, and myself would play fifa 07 for xbox for hours and hours and hours on end, so it'll be a nice reunion. i will keep you posted though.

things havn't gone as swimmingly as i had hoped. my family has been great support but friends have not. maybe i was a little naive in thinking that people would be so willing to help. don't get me wrong there has been a few people to genuinely offer some help but not as much as i would have liked. personally i am a person who, should someone ask, id feel bad not helping. unless work or something got out of the way, i go out of my way for my friends.

on a side note, i am thinking of shooting back to back. monday and a short i wrote called seed. i'm not sure yet if i can afford it but i don't want to put too much on my plate either. i'll focus on monday as much as possible. i am going to fort mcmurray this month, hopefully a location will present itself.

investors? crew? cast? equipment? fort mcmurray? things i have to think about and do.

i've finished storyboarding and wow, i cannot draw. i've handed them over to a proven artist, and dear friend of mine neal breton (clicking his name will take you to his official website) anyways. neal has agreed to re-draw the storyboards for me, which is pretty wicked of him and should make it easier come production time. i've been toying with the idea of shooting in july. july 8-1somethingth is where id like to be. i still have to do some scouting for equipment/hotels/and everything else that falls under pre-production. just an update on that test editing. semi okay i suppose. will i be ready to edit my own footage? hopefully. anyways, heres a sneak peak at my 4th and 104th frame of monday.

     

i finished my script. after having it sent out to a few people and getting feedback i added some dialogue and stuff that might make the script a bit better. im going to be storyboarding and doing a shot list this week in hopes of getting the 'director' part of pre-production over so i can focus on production. i am also going to be test editing some footage so i'm ready to edit once 'monday' has been cut. should be fun. i cant wait!

the most frustrating thing is the waiting game. i have to wait until school is over to think about production. every day at work i think about the shots. i think about how i want it to flow. i love it. but then i realize, that this is months away, and its frustrating. i think im not going to do any re-writes that i had planned until later, more closer to the day when i can work with actors.

since im a statistics/organization freak, ive actually been pretty busy with some other projects. and by projects i just mean little tasks at home. ive picked up a program called 'bento'. and what i've done sofar with this is made a directory of film festivals that we could submit our films to. a crew directory of anyone i know who can work on films. an audition archive of people who have come to audition for us. as well as a project list, with details of our movies. i hope my computer doesnt crash because ive put in like 18 hours on this.

thinking about film in general gets me through my work day. no matter what happens, i can always rely on it to pass the time. the other day i had recieved some script notes from a friend of mine, ryan hanson of dead oak pictures. he gave me a few things to consider. i hope by monday i'll have a new draft of 'monday'. i think my script is in near completion but im going to try a few things out with it first and see what kind of reaction it gets. it's always nice to have people who wont just say 'yeah its good' but to deliver some truth to you. luckily i have a few people who will do that for me.

on last report i mentioned emailing the principal of my old school. well i got in touch with one of my old teachers who is still there, hoping that she would remember me and hoping that she would vouch for me when the time comes. she agreed to help me out any way possible so thats just one step further towards making this film. until net time

when you think things are going to be easy, they usually slap you in the face. when i thought 'yeah i can just film this movie in my old highschool, i've known the principal for many years' i thought that he would still be there. wrong. new guy is leading the school. which means i have to build a relationship through an email when it could have already been established. 90% of the faculty isnt there anymore and its really making my situation tougher to try and work out. i emailed the current principal and he was actually pretty wicked about it. i just have to email him closer to the date to hammer out the details. all i need now is a house. the very shitty thing is that, the house i pictured is in vancouver. it was my neighbors house when i lived here the first time. we actually got to use it in the short film i produced in film school, titled 'insecure'. it is a modest yet old looking house and i think it'd be perfect. should i go halfzies and film half in vancouver and the other half in fort mcmurray? things to consider.

this short has just been announced, so keep checking back as it develops. right now i'm torn where to do this movie. when i wrote it i had fort mcmurray specifically in my head. it would be alot cheaper to do the film here in vancouver, but i might compromise some small town with big trouble feel that you'd get with fort mcmurray. i have a script completed, and am doing edits on it to bring down the length but i am confident it will run less than 10 minutes. shooting location is my main dilemma though.