I'll Take What I Can Get

I’m tired. So tired. I’ve had a busy busy first part of the week. And I’m tired.

So last post I said 5 producers was enough. Well, we’ve added another. Noel Lucas. She’s new to the game so we gonna bring her on as a Co-Producer so she can get her feet wet. She’s film student at ASU and had a class with me and Dan. She had been emailing and calling me about summer projects and stuff and I told her that my only commitment thus far was Freshmen. She said she’d like to help any way she could and I invited her to a production meeting so she could see how we do things. Well at the meeting she signed on so I’ll put her profile on the website in a few days.

My production team doesn’t know this yet but I’m going to Maine in two weeks. My family’s there and I was gonna go in august but I didn’t want to leave for a week so close to production. I leave on Tuesday the 20th and come back Tuesday the 27th. I hope I can find something to do for the film while I’m out there. I’ll let the team know tomorrow

The production meeting went well on Sunday. We went a half hour over. Mostly because I walked them through how exactly auditions will run this coming weekend.

I sent out an email to the school of theatre and film today as one last reach to get actors for auditions this weekend. I’m interested to see how fruitful it will be. I made some alterations today for the auditioning room. It cost $25 but I think it will make a huge difference. What I did was had the room rearranged for us this weekend. It will be set up like a panel setting (like an audition!) instead of just a plane room. I also had the table draped. I’m excited about auditions. I think they’re gonna be fun.

I worked on the schedule all day yesterday. Well as long as I could. I didn’t get it done. I thought 8 hours would have been enough but it wasn’t. I was there from 10am-5:15pm. I only got really close to finishing updating the breakdowns. It took forever! I guess I didn’t realize just how different the old script was from the final one. The ladies on vacation till next Monday so next week my top priority is two things. One is finishing the shooting schedule. I wanted to have it done for auditions this weekend but oh well. The other is to get storyboard rolling.

I haven’t really talked to any of the story board guys yet. I haven’t sent them the script. Dan wanted me to have all the details worked out by tomorrow at our meeting but I’m not gonna be able to make that deadline. It was just something I couldn’t pull off.

I finished the script Sunday. I actually changed the title to “Freshmen: In the Night of Their Lives”. It gives the film a little bit of a cheekier mood (it was Jason’s idea. Thanks Jason). I want people going into this knowing it’s supposed to in fun. The final script clocked in at 117 pages. Well, 116 and a half really. Ha. But anyway. 20 copies were made tonight and I’m gonna pick them up in the morning. I’ll give them to the team tomorrow at the meeting. This is the only copy they’ll get from me. I’m gonna tell them that it’s $3 a copy from now in if they want or need another one.

Today I booked the stage in the MU in October for the Philanthropy scene. The stage goes fast so I wanted to book it ahead of time. I’m gonna go in and look at it tomorrow with the retractable wall closed so I can make sure it blocks out sunlight. If it works well we’ll do that shoot day for night. Which would be great. Save time and money.

I got an email from Chris LaMont today about the screenplay. I haven’t’ replied yet. It was ok. He had a lot of good things to say. The main problem he had with it was that he says the movie needs to be edited down heavily. He says he can’t keep track of who’s who. I think he’s wrong. Especially because of the example he used. Which confused me. He said think of great ensemble films like “can’t hardly wait” and how there were lots of characters and when you came out of the movie you could only remember three of the stories, if that many. I didn’t understand what he ment by this. Cause he said it was a great movie but then used it as an example of what’s wrong with mine. I still don’t understand. I’ll have to clarify it with him. I’ll email him tomorrow.

I’m grooming this girl to be either first AD or UPM on the shoot. Her name is Mallory and she’s amazing in a leadership role. I’m doing her a favor this week with some software for sound editing and then we’re gonna have lunch on Saturday the 17th. She’s been out of the country all semester. I really hope I can get her to sign on as crew. She’d be an even better producer but I don’t think she has the time. I’ll take what I can get.