Post and Prep

PostWrap Blog the End AKA BOHICA prepblog001

Thursday night we screened the pot documentary for a baker's dozen of students at USC Cinema School. It went really well, we got good responses all around. I didn't know it was going to happen, so I got dragged into the Q & A panel after the screening in which my producer railed about States rights and at one point I thought he was going to drop kick one of the students questioning the legality of our documentary.

It's important to note that five minutes before we left, I finished my work on the film. Like, FOR REAL. I thought the day would never come. I've got a couple more days to media manage the whole thing, output the final cut for color correction and sound mixing, wrap out our editing suite, and get things rolling into our next project, which starts shooting in two weeks.

I'm going to try and use my newly found free time to blog a little. A year and a half ago, when we were prepping for the viking funeral that was Suffering Man's Charity, I posted some inane prep blogs, so why not continue the trend this time around. I'm getting more and more excited about production starting on this new as I helped develop it from the very very beginning.

The easiest way to describe it is "The Breakfast Club in a foxhole."

I also got a promotion and a pay-cut. How does that work? Well, this war movie has about a quarter of the budget of the pot doc, so even though I'll be playing a more important role(yay! more stress!) I'm not going to be making much doing it. Which is fine as it's only a two week shoot in the desert. It would be better if it was a two week shoot in the dessert.

Also, for my fellow nerdlings out there, you may or may not remember me gushing about the fact that I have worked with one of the producers from The American Astronaut, which is, like, holy shit, one of the greatest low-fi, sci-fi, rock musical indie films I've ever seen. Well, we're working with him again and he brought the art director along with him. For those that have seen The American Astronaut you know that it's a superbly designed film and this is a big deal for a geek like me. For those that haven't- GO BUY IT.

Hertz Donut.