Wish Me Luck

Not too much has happened in the last few days. Since it was a holiday weekend I’ve yet to hear from the facman or elevator guys. I don’t expect them to get back to me for a week or so. If a couple weeks go by then I’ll contact them again. I don’t want to be a pain in the ass if I don’t need to be.

On Friday I had to do some financial aide stuff at the student services building so while I was there I went and met with the new person at reslife. I new their office was there and was just hoping she was there. She was. The meeting was interesting. She asked me what the movie was about. She told me I needed to go through public events to get a filming permit, which I sooooo don’t want to do. We’ll see. This is a situation where I need Miguel at my rear, or in front for that matter.

Miguel FINALLY emailed me. I felt like abandoned for the longest time. Well not really. He emailed me with one sentence. “Just got back into town and haven’t’ gotten a chance to read your emails yet. I’ll read them this weekend.” He has yet to get back to me. I’ll talk to him when I contact him tomorrow about Frankie Mendoza.

Frankie Mendoza did this awesome, and I mean awesome, and I don’t through that word around with student films, animated film about dust bunnies. I wanna see if he’s interested in doing story boards for us. Unfortunately Dan and Drew’s schedules clash so much I hesitate to commit drew to the job. I wanna work with drew again and I think he would be a great addition to the team but his schedule and Dan’s clash so bad that it would take literally months to finish story boarding. So anyway I’m gonna contact Miguel tomorrow to get this kids information and offer him a job as a story board artist.

Linnaea Kimble, our production designer, has been MIA for the past couple weeks but finally emailed me tonight. Apparently she was having email problems. I wasn’t worried when she wasn’t coming to meetings though cause her job wont really start for a month or so. All though I’d like to keep her in the loop.

At our production meeting on Sunday we set down dates for the major deadlines for the whole project. I’d like to premiere the film at the 2nd annual school of theatre and film Student Film Festival. I got to talk to Miguel about it but it just seams appropriate since that’s around the time the project would be due for my capstone anyway. Here’s a list of some of the dates we set. Obviously there are some dates that still need to be set but this is what we accomplished on Sunday. I’m happy with it.

2006
June 4th - Lock Shooting Draft of Screenplay
July 14th – Finish Story Boards
August 31st – Lock Locations
September 30th – First Day of Shooting
October 27th – Wrap Shooting
November 10th – Completely Digitize and Organize All Footage
December 8th – Rough Cut of picture

2007
January 19th – Final Picture Lock
April 2nd – Finish and Lock Entire Film
April 30th or there about – Premiere of Film

As for the screenplay. I’ve started the re-write. It’s ok so far. I’m not ecstatic with it but it works for now. I’ll keep plugging at through out the next couple of days and hopefully come up with some good stuff. I’ve since added the scene I talked about with the cat and the tunnels and I’ve removed some stuff. It’s at 113 right now. I’d like to get it shorter so I’m gonna do some serious and hard editing. Wish me luck.