Excited. Nervous. On the edge of hyperventilating. It’s strange; you plan and you plan over months and months, you take everything: your ambitions, your money, your time and energy, your life, and you ball it all up into this single moment – and in a way, honestly, it’s terrifying when reality hits and you realize that it’s right there in front of your face, staring your down. You always knew the day would come – but when it’s weeks, days, hours away… I guess I’m just saying I’m getting a bit anxious.

Anyways, here’s another quick update of things I’ve been keeping myself busy with:

* Tomorrow I’ll be meeting up with Darren, who is a very, very promising applicant for the sound position – I don’t want to say too much too early, but I will tell you that on top of his sound-experience he has gone on several big-bike-trips since 2001.

* Amanda and I are leaving on a mini-bike-trip the 2nd & 3rd of April, we’ll either ride from North Hollywood to the beach (North of Malibu) or we’ll drive out to the beach and then ride a day up the coast and then the next day come back down. I’m not sure if we’ll make anything of this, for sure we’ll bring along the digital camera but I’m still debating if I want to lug around the canon or not.

* I’m going to be helping out with a short film on the 22nd, 23rd & 24th of April – something called “worm”, all I know is it’s a 25-minute long steady-cam shot. I’m a sucker for anything that reminds of P.T. Anderson / Scorsese, I’ll be sure to let you all know how that goes.

* This whole fundraising party I keep mentioning here and there, it’s time I tell you more about it: the “party idea” was suggested to us by Tricia, who used to throw fundraising-parties for a theatre she was involved with – her best efforts raised $12,000 in one night for a small-stage production a friend of hers was staring in. Now, I don’t expect to raise nearly that much – but hopefully, even if the party bombs, the film could pull in a few thousand dollars and a lot of support. With nine weeks left until production, I’m hoping to get a party set-up four weeks from now, giving us a good amount of time afterwards to pull in the last of the budget.

Aside from the fact that I’m not the best in big-party situations – it should be a good time.

* Clif bar is sending us a handful of boxes for the film; I would like to thank them very, very much for their generosity and interest in the project.

* Some of you might have taken notice already, but it is a fairly obscure link so I thought I would take a second to point it out; I’ve added a “filmmaker’s resources” directory – it’s between the ‘contact’ and the ‘archives’ to the left. There’s a bit of everything in there, so take a moment to check it out.

* Been working on the ‘cast & crew’ pages a bit, but I was hoping to get some feedback from the readers on what specifically people wanted to learn the most. Do you just need a name with a picture? Would you rather read a short-post taking about what that person has done, and how they came to be involved with this film? Would it be best to list a general: age, hometown, blah blah blah? Be creative and let me know – maybe a video-post would interesting…

Labels: Pre-Production