Cancellations and Calendars

The Production meeting didn’t go that well today. Well… it didn’t go at all actually. Everyone canceled on me so we didn’t meet. So nothing’s really new. However, I can tell you what I had planned to go over today. On the agenda were 2 things. 1. The Screenplay. I’m trying to meet with all my advisors in the next few weeks to discuss the screenplay and where it’s at. I get the feeling that my advisors still think it needs work. And I myself, having spent some time away from it, am starting to think so too. I’m gonna a give it a read through on Wednesday and try to be as objective as I can. Then I meet with Ron on Thursday and hopefully with the other advisors soon as well. I have a feeling though I’m going to be doing another draft. I wanted to know how the rest of the producing team felt about this. But we couldn’t go over it. I don’t think doing another draft would halt preproduction though. Because the draft wouldn’t change significantly to the point where we’d don’t need a location anymore or new characters and locations are added. We can still location scout and do concept drawings even if the screenplay isn’t locked into a production draft just yet. 2. The calendar. I printed out 10 calendars. 5 that go from May, 2006 to October, 2006 and 5 that go from May, 2006 to May, 2007. I hope to have the entire production done by March of 07 but may would be the ultimate deadline as that would be when the capstone class would end. I wanted to set deadlines and target dates for every aspect of production, especially post production. That was the biggest mistake we made on producing LOTD. We planned everything out to the smallest detail for preproduction and principle photography of LOTD but no post production. I just thought we’d edit it together and then we’d be done. That cost me almost a year and half of headaches. So I want to completely preplan all of post production as well as the rest of the producing process. Obviously we don’t need all the producers to continue on through post production so I wanted to see who wanted to commit all the way to may, 07. I guess it’s going to have to wait till the next production meeting.

I talked to drew today. His natural door email doesn’t seem to be working. I think I fixed it. He’s still gonna be doing story boards. I told him I’d get back to him with in the week.