A Blessing in Disguise as July Goes Bye

In the past months that I’ve been doing this diary every once in a while it goes dormant. Well no dormancy had yet existed that July has become. Today I break that dormancy as I explain what has been going on.

As most of you know, Miguel through a wrench in the works about 6 weeks ago when he all of a sudden finally read the screenplay. He emailed me and told me he had serious concerns. So most of production has been on hold until I can conjure a version of the screenplay he’s happy with. Well I believe I have done that. I emailed him the current “final” version on July 19th. I emailed him last Friday to see if he had looked at it and he emailed me back with these two sentences: “looks pretty solid. I’ll give you a definitive answer on Monday”. Well Monday came and went and I have yet to receive a definitive answer. But the looks pretty solid part of the email makes me very happy. It makes me very happy because I also agree with him. I think that this wrench Miguel has put in the system was a good thing. Because the screenplay is better. Much much better in my opinion. So I’m calling this a blessing in disguise. Now all we do on that end is wait.

The screenplay is fairly different. I changed all the names that were based on real people and changed them around to fake names. For example Colin is now Tyler and Jared is now Jeremy. I also added three VO at the beginning of the film and at the end. Each of the three main characters go on a very specific journey and the VO’s really help to solidify the story.

Reslife’s been giving me a hard time. There really busy because of school starting soon and they don’t want to help me at all. I’m last on their priority list and there treating me like thorn in their side. I’m gonna start looking for back up locations instead of using real dorms. But I’ll keep digging reslife while I’m at it.

I’ve got a friend who works at the Arizona Film Commission looking into companies that sell services such as renting old cop cars and stuff. I’m gonna see if we can avoid using the actual police. We’ll see.

After talking with Miguel I’ve found out we’re going to have access steady cams as well as a dolly. Thank god. We also might get to shoot in HD. Not sure if that’s going to work yet or not. We’ll see.

I’m all moved into my new apartment so that feels good to have out of the way.

Joel Carr has signed on as camera operator.

I offered Jamie the role of Jeremy and he accepted.

Because of the wrench most of the production has been on hold. But there are other reasons that the production has gone on hold too. On Saturday July 22nd, my roommate’s (the person that the character Daniel is based on) mother died in a boating accident. So for the past week and a half I’ve been doing nothing but being a friend. There are just some things that are more important. But, my roommates doing better so I’m starting to go back to my responsibilities. Today is my first day back at work so I thought I’d do a production diary as well.