The Short Shoot Diary II #2: Let's Get This Party Started
April 29, 2006

Would you believe in 20 days I'm making a film?

Yeah, that's about how I feel.

I'm actually well ahead of the game. I've got my cast locked, 90% of my locations set, 90% of my crew in place, 100% of my other producers in place, script is fine, storyboards are shaping up, and even found a company that's going to do my one big VFX shot for me. Vunderfull, vright?

I'm still nervous. My last projects have never been finished. Photography commenced, and scenes were edited, and one even got as far as being scored and shown to a few people. Yet they just were never that good. I got better with each film, no doubt. I've learned a lot about what can be done and what can't be done and how to do something that can be done a certain way to make it look like you did something that can't be done. I've just never had it all come together.

This time....

Now that I'm about to be a big film school graduate (anyone want to cover my mortgage for a few months...no more student loans), I should be able to make something good, presentable, even marketable, long term. The people I've gathered are all excellent, the plan is working and we should be able to meet our days.

It's just that the jumble of nerves never totally goes away.

I'll have the script up in a few days. It's another in my long line of "HomoHorror" films called, after many backs and forths, "After Words." It's a bit trippy, loopy, Twilight-Zone on acid-esque, but it'll scare you, make you cry and reach for the remote to watch it again. Promise

Posted by Jody at April 29, 2006 01:52 PM

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