Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Excited

Things are so crazy for me right now. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. Work is crazy. Getting things in order for school to start is crazy. Helping my roommate with the lose of his mom is crazy. Producing a feature in the midst of all this is crazy. But, I’m excited.

Molly stepped down as a producer because it’s too much work for her with nursing school. I completely understand.

Danielle found this subculture of people who collect police cars. She’s gonna look into seeing if we can find a local person involved in this and borrow a few. I’ve yet to here from my contact at the film commission on company’s renting cop cars so I’m going to call him later this week.

Linnaea went over to the police station to take some pictures of locations as well as uniforms. Not sure how that went. I called her today but she’s yet to call me back. It should be interesting.

My computer got a virus or malfunctioned or something and I had to completely reinstall my operating system. That sucked. I was able to save all my files though. It was an obnoxious process involving a Linux operating system running off a DVD in the DVD drive and USB jump drive. But I saved everything. No I’m in the process of rebuilding the computer. But of pain in the ass. Oh well. Better now than a week out from production.

I got something new out of my reslife contact a week ago. She passed me onto someone else. I don’t really know why. But the guy she passed me onto is in operations. This makes me happy. It makes me happy because his job title should mean he only deals with operations and logistics. My previous contact was involved with marketing and had all kinds of concerns that wasted my time like thinking we were doing a reality TV show with out the permission of the students. Sheesh. Well this guy shouldn’t care what were doing. That is at least that’s what his job description suggests. I’ll wait to email him till the beginning of September cause the dorm are crazy right now. Its move in day today and tomorrow. Work is crazy at the MU with welcome week. One of the actors, Kent Walter, had a great suggestion and said to contact reslife at ASU west. He said that have all kinds of empty dorms. Which would be great. I don’t’ mind going to ASU west.

The screenplays locked at 99 pages. I’m very happy. I did one more pass after Miguel approved it and then sent it out to cast and crew on Sunday the 13th. I’ve got a read-through booked for the 27th. So far everyone I expected to come will be there except for one actor. Which is fine. I knew there’d be one. There’s always “that guy”. ;) Unfortunately I had to exclude the SAG actors from the read-through. The reason for this is because if they came I’d have to pay them and I can’t afford it. I’d much rather pay them to be in the film then have other actors that I can invite to the read through. They were very understanding which made me feel better.

There may be a hitch in making the film on an HD format. I’ll look more into it later once school starts.

Danielle’s already gotten us some free food for the shoot! I’m so excited. She’s awesome. The more money I can put onto the screen instead of in everyone’s stomach the better ;) but there will always be free food on the set. It’s one of the fundamentals of low budget filmmaking.

I told the actors I would have they’re contracts for them on 27th at the read through as well as the shooting schedule. I’ve got to get working on these things.

As for the shooting schedule another wrench has fallen into the system. The computer lab where the scheduling software is located at is renovating all they’re equipment and software so I can’t get in there till the 21st. that gives me 7 days to pump out a schedule. But that’s ok because I’ve already got a preliminary schedule. I just need to update it.

We’re going to be doing interview’s for crew on September 3rd. that should be fun. I’m sending out an email this week in regards to the call.