Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
All I can say is WOW. It was a helluva year:
JANUARY
– Had the first meeting with Jack Sandberg, who would become my makeup effects designer on “The Dead Can’t Dance” and Emily Bonavia, who would coordinate the Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts’ film classes.
– I journeyed to Park City, Utah, in support of “The Only Good Indian,” which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. I had a small role in the film and worked on the A.D. crew.
– At Sundance, I almost get knocked over by Ashton Kutcher as he tries to escape papparazzi.
FEBRUARY
– We get a preliminary OK from the Independent School to shoot our interior scenes there for “The Dead Can’t Dance.” A HUGE step.
– On my birthday, I go to my car to find my driver’s side window smashed in.
– I write the course description for “The Guts and Bolts of DIY Filmmaking,” which I will teach for WAMPA in conjunction with the production of “The Dead Can’t Dance.”
MARCH
– More hammering out of prepro stuff: Jack meets with me and we go over supplies that we’ll need, I investigate insurance for the school, etc., and start ordering various things and equipment we will need.
– I get my rejection letter from Tribeca’s All Access Program, a mentoring program that sets up meetings with potential producers and distributors during their festival (it’s my 2nd attempt). They give “The Dead Can’t Dance” a thumbs down, as well.
– I start meeting with Randall, who is interested in drawing storyboards for “TDCD” and he also auditions for the role of Clooney. I offer him the part. He accepts.
– Oaklawn Elementary grants me permission to shoot exterior scenes on their premises. Paperwork is in hand.
— I get a good deal and buy the Panasonic HVX-200 camera for $3,500.
– I bite the bullet and buy the Letus Extreme Lens Adapter for $1,500, only to find that I need a different optimization kit, which is another $400.
– We have our first production meeting on the 24th, with principal cast and crew. Brandon officially accepts 1st A.D. job, and Craig comes on board as 2nd A.D.
– Shawn tells me he won’t be able to do the 9-day shoot at the Independent School scheduled for June, so I start looking for other people. Our friend Lonny says he can’t do it, either.
APRIL
– Shawn and I test the Letus Extreme. Looks fantastic.
– We shoot the first scene with Guy and TJ on the 21st, and it feels great to be in production. But these would only turn out to be test scenes that we have to reshoot.
– Rain causes us to cancel other exterior Oaklawn scenes several times.
– We do my body cast work with plaster to form the prop that will be used when I stab myself in the gut. We meet BJ, who would later become a key member of the crew.
– We do the first round of make-up tests for Wade’s zombie character, Stupid.
MAY
– In a chance meeting that I liken to fate, I run into our buddy Jerod Cantu, who would later come on as Director of Photography.
– Prepro work continues, including a detailed schedule for the 9-day Independent shoot.
– We do head cast work of the Cates Bros., Josh and Zach, and full-on makeup work is in effect.
– People are signing up for the film class. Crazy!
– We have 50-plus people show up for our open call auditions to be zombie extras. Awesome! Fox News comes to a segment on us (thanks, Shawn!)
– My wonderful niece Allie graduates from high school. Monumental.
– Production week nears, and I’m busily preparing. I’m not sleeping at all with anticipation. I’m nervous yet ready. We do a final walk-through of the school before shooting.
JUNE
– I teach two days of classes before we begin production on “The Dead Can’t Dance.” It goes well, and the class seems excited to work on the film.
– Day one of the Independent School shoot on the 9th. Our first day with a big crew, lots of extras and makeup. It goes well, for the most part. The day is long, but … 
– Not as long as day two. We start at 10 a.m. and wrap at 3:30 a.m. It would be just the first of many looooong days, but everyone is a trouper.
– The rest of the Independent shoot is an adventure unto itself, with failing equipment, unruly extras, personnel friction and a certain makeup effects guy completely missing his deadline, forcing us to jiggle our shooting schedule right up until the last minute, but we make it through. 
– The 9-day Independent shoot becomes a 10-day shoot. We finally wrap at the school, strike and clean everything then head to Kelly’s Bar for a mid-wrap party. We’re all ecstatic. We accomplished a huge feat. But it wasn’t over yet.
– We finally get to shoot the “playground showdown” zombie scene at Oaklawn Elementary after rescheduling four times. This time, we rent the entire school so we can have access to the gym and classrooms. But it’s pouring rain on the day we have scheduled. I tell everyone to go and get ready, anyway. Miraculously, the rain finally stops in late afternoon and w
have only 3 hours of light left to get the shot. We do. It’s awesome.
JULY
– Scheduling is turning out to be my biggest headache, and we’re forced to take a brief hiatus.
– Craig does amazing legwork and we finally get the OK to shoot the rendezvous point scene at an abandoned airport in Yoder. 
– At the Yoder shoot, our friend Jeremy brings his paintball team (they’re all Marines). They’re very cool, very game, and ignore the heat and endure the long hours.
– After some rewrites, we shoot the new ending to the movie at the coroner’s office.
– In what felt like a total catastrophe, we are shut down while shooting the opening scenes at a gas station in ugly old Burrton, KS, after some miscommuncation with the owners. Very rude people. But it would later be a blessing because we found an even better location, and I rewrote the scene to include a killer shot with people falling down in the background. It’s one of the coolest shots in the film. But at the time, the Burrton fiasco was a crushing blow.
AUGUST
– It feels like things are falling apart, schedules are shifting madly, some locations are still not locked down and there is still trouble with some makeup stuff. But I try to hold it together.
– We get a great day of shooting exterior road scenes near a rock quarry near Andover. Fanatstic full day (again, we’re fighting the light), and we get some very good stuff.
– We shoot the big zombie/Stupid showdown at Oaklawn. Zach bears 90 degree-plus heat for 5 hours in full head cast makeup. He’s nervous, but does great.
– We have a very fast-paced but fun shoot at Jezebel’s, where the crew is only too happy to see zombie girls in skimpy outfits. It’s a blast, and the scene is very funny. Melodie, you rock.
– We have a rough, looooong night at Sir Christopher’s house near Udall. It’s a very trying night, but made better through the graciousness of Sir Chris and his wonderful family. Really awesome people. After we wrap at 3 a.m., Jerod leaves directly for Kansas City where he has a 6 a.m. call on a video shoot, and Randall gets 2 hours of sleep before going to Worlds of Fun and riding rollercoasters all day. Filmmaking isn’t for wimps.
SEPTEMBER
– Brandon is all too happy to call it a wrap at the Oaklawn Elementary location, a concern since the corn harvest is nearing. But all our scenes are done at Oaklawn. Hallelujah.
– We reshoot the opening scenes at the rest stop near Beaumont, and it’s an incredible day. And the shot that I wanted to work went beautifully, after many takes. Jerod and the extras rocked.
– Had some more (long) days of shooting at Sir Chris’ farm, and getting to know them better is truly a treat. Best thing: Stupid is now wrapped!
– Jerod and I are discovering some problems with the lens adapter. Jerod takes it apart. It gets broken. Dammit.
– We get the last bar exterior scene at Jezebel’s. We’re wrapped there.
OCTOBER
– We have our first post-production meeting, and I’m giddy to be heading into this phase.
– We wrap principal photography on Sunday, Oct. 18., after a day getting road stuff at the beautiful wind farm near Beaumont. Incredible.
– We have a wrap party for the key cast and crew, and I unveil the teaser trailer. Everyone loves it, we have a great time and magical night.
– Immediately after that, I host the Q&A with director Kevin Willmott and star Wes Studi after the opening-night screening of “The Only Good Indian” at the Tallgrass Film Festival. It’s another great night, and many of the crew goes as a group. Free booze at the party!
– Editing begins on “The Dead Can’t Dance.”
NOVEMBER
– We set an ambitious rough-cut deadline goal for ourselves, in hopes of a festival submission, aos I buckle down and pretty much chain myself to my computer editing all night, sleeping very little and still doing my day job.
– We get the final footage we need of the radio announcer part with our friend Archie, who is great.
– I shoot the blood splatter that I want to use and design into the title sequence.
– I work throughout the rest of the month on the film. Thanksgiving comes and goes.
DECEMBER
– Though it almost killed me (not literally), we made our festival rough-cut goal deadline of Dec. 11. I really wanted to make the deadline (which was no easy feat through some last-minute technical problems), because this festival is my favorite. But us and thousands of others are trying to get in.
– I sink into a deep depression that I now blame unyielding stress, too much work and not enough rest. It consumed me, and I began to hate all of it. Scary place to be.
– I feel better after Christmas. Taking a much-needed break from the film, but we watch the rough cut, and it’s taking shape nicely. This is really going to be something special, something we can and will be proud of. And nothing like it has ever been done in Wichita.
So, that’s it. What a crazy, spectacular rollercoaster ride. Here’s to great things in 2010. Happy New Year!
-r.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
Thank you for all your support and kindness throughout the year. Please have a safe holiday, and I wish you nothing but peace and good will.
And, and zombies, too.
-r.
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
You’ll need QuickTime. If you can’t play this, a lower-res version is available on Veoh here
Enjoy,
-r.
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
We’re back from two days in Blackburn, Oklahoma, and it was a success! Not without its troubles, though.
But the first day was fantastic, and really a lot of fun. We rounded everyone up early, and our set photog Marcus even came by and spend the night before so he could be there ready to go in the morning. I got up about 8 a.m. after staying up late preparing stuff and going over final checklists.
Ann and Randall came by, and we had to print off a fake “girly mag” that Randall had designed as a prop, but it was a small delay. The sucky thing was that over the night, Randall was starting to feel sick. But we printed off the mag (and Jerod was running late, he overslept). Then we went to pick him up and were on the road. Guy left earlier to pick up Daniel, and Megan and Loni had coordinated on their own and were off, too.
Jerod rode with me, and we got to spend time talking, and then he went back to cleaning the lens adapter as we got closer (it was about a 2 1/2 our drive). The Letus lens adapter was still giving us problems, but his good friend rewired it for us after it broke, and we had it back in working condition.
We stopped in Pawnee to grab some lunch, then made the short trek to Blackburn. And like I said earlier, there’s no reason to go to this town unless that is your ultimate destination. But it’s a cool little place, and a pretty little town with a little rundown downtown-type area, where the quik stop store sat that we would use.
Once we got there, Jerod said, “This is perfect.” Then he set to work readying the lens adapter while I went in to talk to the owner of the store, Billye Denny.
She was gone when I visited the town earlier, but we had talked on the phone several times, and she seemed so incredibly nice. And she really was just a sweet lady, and just let us have full reign over the place, moving things around, using her electricity, everything. And the town’s mayor, Phil, was there to greet us (he had shown me around before).
I scoped out the place and mapped out in my head how I wanted things to play out (I couldn’t really do a complete shot list, because I didn’t really know the logistics of the location in detail).
Amazingly, we all got there at about the same time. We set things up while Jerod did final clean-up on the camera, and we were at last rolling the first scene, which was with Randall, who by now was not feeling well at all. Poor guy.
But he was such a trouper. It was only a shot scene, that we did with the dolly track, but he knocked it out then went to sleep in the car.
After that, we did interior store stuff with me and Guy, and got some great stuff (there’s a great scene with Ann as a dead extra, very funny).
We freed up Ann around 6:30 so she could hit the grill and make hot dogs for the crew while the rest of us finished up with some detail stuff and close-ups. Then we broke for dinner and needed to get two more quick scenes with my after dark in the store.
Jerod and Daniel set lights, then we rolled. And it looks awesome. Again, it was such a perfect place, and it took forever to find the location that was just right, but this worked out beautifully.
We wrapped about 9, as Billye graciously waited for us then locked up the place as we packed up. We told her good night then headed to another nearby town, Cleveland, where we would be staying. I had wanted to stay in Pawnee, but the only motel was full with construction crews staying there.
Earlier, I told Ann to take Randall on in so he could crash, and she called several times, but I missed the calls (a wrong number on the credit card I read over the phone), but we finally got it squared away.
We had four rooms. One for Randall and Ann, one for Megan and Loni, then two for the rest of the guys. We finally got all settled about 10 p.m., then watched the footage, and then the others went to play cards and hangout while I went over the next day’s scenes.
But it was really a blast, like we were in summer camp or something. Again, a really amazing group of people that are my crew, and we’ve all become such great friends. It just makes everything even better.
The only down side was that TJ had to stay late because of work and was driving my car down to meet us — but hadn’t shown up yet, and his phone didn’t work in Oklahoma. I was getting pretty worried.
But then Guy and Jerod ran into the store, and TJ called Guy right while they were in town (our motel was just on the edge of town). Truly amazing timing.
So TJ got there safe and sound, and everything was good. But I was exhausted. I went to bed as the other guys stayed up a bit in the other room. Maybe was too tired, though, because it was a weird sleep. I kept waking up. And then eventually got up about 8 a.m. to take a shower and get everyone moving.
To my complete amazement, everyone else was already up and showering and getting ready. And Ann said that Randall was still feeling bad, but now was all congested. That sucked, because this was Randall’s big acting day.
And the day was gorgeous. A little cool, but pretty and clear. We made the trek to Blackburn, got set up and knocked out the first scene, while Randall slept in the car.
Then we were ready for his scene. And although I had trimmed it down, it was still going to be a long scene to get through, and I was somewhat dreading it, in a way. It was just driving me crazy also being in the scene and not being able to watch it play out, but the blocking was simple, so that was good. We just had to make sure that we had it covered from enough different angles that it would cut together well and not be too static.
But then the weather changed. Suddenly, the wind picked up and clouds rolled in. Then we could see impending rain, and Loni informed us we probably had a good 2 hours — tops. Dammit. That really sucked, and added pressure onto everything, and we still had a lot of dialogue to get through.
But we kept at it and went as long as we could and dealt with the changing lighting situations — until it did start to pour. And my heart sank. I honestly didn’t know what we would do if we weren’t going to be able to finished the scene. Randall was really sick now, Ann was starting to feel sick and went to lay in the car. For some reason, maybe word got out, traffic was really heavy with people driving by trying to take a look at what we’re doing, random dogs kept getting into the shots, and now rain. AND, as Guy was trying to put away some chairs, he spilled pop all over the front of his shirt. So now there was a big, brown stain right smack dab on his tummy. And the rain kept rolling in. I thought my head was going to explode.
But eventually the rain did stop for a bit, as wiped everything down to not look wet, and we were able to get a little bit more done before it started raining again.
But things looked fairly well on the horizon, with some lights skies ahead, so we just waited. We hit it again when we were able to, and somehow — incredibly — got through the scene.
I think I would have liked to have gotten a little more coverage, of course, but I think we had enough to make it work, because now, at this point, we were also light rapidly. But we wrapped and began to strike everything and pack as Jerod continued on getting some cutaways and B-roll stuff.
Finally, we were all done at about 8 p.m. Not bad in the overall scheme of things. But it was a hectic topsy-turvy day. But we did it. Hallelujah!
Ann, Randall and Marcus headed on back, but the rest of us stayed and ate at a Chinese place in Pawnee before hitting the road back. And we all felt triumphant, almost giddy at what we had just pulled off. It was a great meal, and a great way to end our trip. It was also somewhat bittersweet, because now Loni, Megan, Ann and Randall were now wrapped.
I crossed off the scenes we had shot during the day at the table, and we all cheered. That left only one more scene to be crossed off. Simply amazing.
We finished dinner (and, thank goodness I didn’t get it before the shoot, but my fortune cookie had no fortune in it), then we hit the road home.
It was another great adventure in this long adventure that has been this movie. I just can’t put into words how grateful I am for everyone’s commitment, passion and talent. It floors me.
So, now, one more shooting day left with just me, TJ, Guy and Jerod — all interior car stuff, hopefully on Saturday if the weather holds out. And then: PARTY!!
To be followed by lots of post-production, of course. But it’s all great.
Who needs a fortune in their cookie, anyway? I’m writing my own,
-r.
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
We got through two more days at the Oaklawn School, the first being an action-heavy scene where two final zombies attack me and the good zombie, who is called Stupid.
But we didn’t have access to the school this day, so we did makeup beforehand, with Jack and our friend Zach coming to my place to do his prosthetics and Megan going to Wade’s place to do his makeup and our friend Dustin’s. Megan, typically, did fantastic work, and so did Jack (we made a head cast of Zach a couple months back).
We all get to the school grounds in the afternoon and blocked out the action. We started with the action right after I pull a stake out of my gut and crawl on the ground until I run into Stupid’s feet (a really nice dolly shot).
Then Dustin knocks me to the ground and we wrestle a bit until Stupid comes and drags the other zombie off of me.
And poor Dustin! He got dragged so many times this day, but he was such a trouper!! And so was Zach, who waited patiently in his makeup in 90-plus heat (we were in the shade the whole time, but still).
And an action director I am not, but now I guess I am. We did a lot of handheld shots for all the movement, and it worked great. Jerod, again, is simply superhuman.
So we got the stuff all the way up until the mean zombie gets “shot.” Then we’ll pick up Saturday from that point on with the special effects stuff (which scares me — again a new learning curve, but we’re devoting more time to it to get it right).
So it was a great day, and everyone did really good work. Awesome.
We went back to Oaklawn the next day to do another scene that happens after the zombie kill, where Guy’s character, Ray, helps me try to get back to the car. And I knew we were going to have to isolate the scenes along the tree path so we could shoot them without having to have everyone there all at the same time, and I think it works beautifully.
This day, though, was a heavy acting day. And I wasn’t happy with my acting at all until the final few takes. I still wasn’t thrilled with it, but we had to move on, as we were losing light. So it is what it is. I didn’t want it to be too melodramatic, but still effective. It’s a hard line to walk, but I hope I got it right.
After that we got some beautiful stuff with Ray and Stupid saying goodbye. And finally, with Stupid heading into the corn field (which was Wade’s idea), with some amazing, gorgeous light right at magic hour. Very cool.
Then yesterday we headed out to our friends’ farmland near Udall to get some stuff with Guy and Randall on a country road at dusk and then dark.
And getting everyone together and ready to go was a chore. It just is. And Brandon had a last-minute meltdown at work, so he couldn’t go. That meant the people riding with him needed to be picked up. We needed to get one scene right at sunset and it’s an hour’s drive, so I had hoped to leave by 5. After I picked up everyone, we didn’t get out of town until almost 6:30. I blazed on the highway.
We made it to the farm with no problem, then hopped out and immediately got ready to get the shot on the country road at sunset. I’m amazed, but we got it, and it looks great. We lost the really cool light, but we got it and it’s fine.
Then after that, I went to see Sir Chris, who owns the land, and his son Chris, an aspiring filmmaker himself and film critic. Really great guys. I apologized for not doing proper hellos before since we needed to get the shot, but they were both so great.
So was their family. Much later on, Sir Chris’ wife, Teresa, even made the whole crew homemade pizzas — completely from scratch. Absolutely delicious. Their graciousness was warm, inviting and humbling. All because they’re interested in films (the two Chrises were zombie extras for us at the Independent Shoot).
And Sir Chris even turned over an old van he had on his property so that it would look like it crashed. And let us use his power generator that he had parked on the back of his truck so it would be mobile. Incredible.
It was a difficult, unruly shoot once it got dark, though. Jerod was struggling with the lighting and really getting frustrated. And we had some lights malfunction, and we needed every one of them.
But Jerod finally got it to where it would work (though he still wasn’t pleased, but we worked with it), and we finally got to block the scene.
And the generator was LOUD. Really, really LOUD. We did our best to muffle it, but it was still overbearing. Finally, I moved my mom’s SUV and parked it in front of the generator. That actually helped a lot, and hopefully I’ll be able to doctor the audio in post. Scary stuff being so uncertain, but we work with what we have (in my first feature, “Dancing on the Moon,” I had no choice but to leave the sound of a generator in, because at the time I didn’t have the audio skills to fix it). It would be great to have a noiseless generator, but, ah, the benefits of having no budget.
Anyway, we got through the night, fighting off bugs the whole time and dealing with some unruly crew members (that’s a different matter). And Guy and Randall gave great performances. I think the scene is really going to be funny.
It all, of course, took much longer than I had hoped. Especially since Jerod had to leave for Kansas City immediately after we were shooting since he’s working on a shoot today and his call was 7 a.m. That means that he’s working straight through to tonight with no sleep. And Randall was leaving at 6 a.m. this morning for Kansas City, also, but for vacation with his family. I dropped him off at 4:30 this morning. I felt terrible for keeping them both so late, but they charged through it all. Jerod keeps telling me, “Don’t worry about me, I’m in this for the long haul, and I’ll be here for however long it takes.”
And Randall said, “Eh. I’ve done worse with less sleep.” Amazing…
So we had hoped to go back to Udall tonight, but like I said Jerod took that job in KC, which it turns out is fine ’cause it’s rainy. Don’t think we’ll get to do anything tomorrow, ’cause he’ll really need a day off. But then we still have Oaklawn and the bar shoot on Sunday. And hopefully something on Monday, but gotta figure that out. Then Guy goes home, TJ comes home and we regroup after we figure out schedules.
So … a little more done, and much preparation needed for Saturday and Sunday. Stay focused, stay on the road, stay on target. We’re getting there…
-r.
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
In the overall scope of things, production on “The Dead Can’t Dance” has been relatively trouble-free. Sure there are scheduling problems, there were some special effects problems, there are lots of little things that can, do and will go wrong. We just have to stay flexible, change and adapt. Welcome to the world of independent filmmaking with no budget.
But there haven’t been any true roadblocks, or a day gone completely to hell — until now.
Yesterday we drove to Burrton, KS, to shoot at an old gas station I had discovered a while back. It was in town but set against a large grassy field and on a dirt road. It looked like it was in the middle of nowhere, which was perfect. (Although it didn’t have a storefront, so it wasn’t too perfect.)
We tried for months to get permission to use the gas station, through our Burrton contact, Montie, who said he would be more than happy to help us out (he’s a friend of Jack’s). Anyway, Craig and Brandon tried several times to get ahold of the actual owner but with no success, and Montie didn’t return calls. Finally, though, he did and he told Craig everything was cool with our shooting there. Then we had to switch dates. Craig’s scooter got stolen (which sucks) so he was pre-occupied with other things, so I had Brandon try to call Montie. He did. Montie said no problem, we’re good to go.
So we went. We loaded up everything into three carloads and made the 45-minute trek out.
When we got there, though, it immediately started raining, and I was very stressed out about the weather. It was cloudy with a 30 percent chance for rain. But the rain eventually subsided, and things looked good. It looked like we were actually going to get through the shoot. Awesome.
The gas station wasn’t manned by anyone, people just showed up and got gas with a credit card. And working around them wasn’t easy. When I was there months ago, hardly any cars pulled through. Cars yesterday seemed to come in spurts, so we had to pause and let them do their business, and some trucks rolled through, and nearby there was a man working a salvage yard. All very loudly. And we had some curious people drive through just to see what we were doing.
But we were managing. We got there about noon, were finally set up and rolling probably about 1. Then at one point, an older man pulled up and came over to talk to us. He didn’t seem too friendly at first. I told him we had talked to Montie, and he said, “So?”
Then I further explained what we were doing, that these were the opening shots of the movie and what the story was about. He laughed. And things seemed to be OK. I asked if it was OK if we were there and he said yes. I thanked him profusely, and he got in his truck and left. Cool. Everything seemed all right.
But much later, about 6, he showed up again with a very angry wife. She asked who was in charge, and I went to talk to her. She was very rude, very cross, and I tried to explain that we thought we had permission to shoot there. She yelled at us, and said that we didn’t. We apologized. I mean, it wasn’t like we were trying to sneak onto the premises and get away with something. We had a canopy set up with lawn chairs and a table — we were obviously there.
Anyway, she told us to get off the premises immediately. Again, very, very rude. And it’s their right — it’s their property. It just could have been handled differently. She didn’t understand, and there was no reasoning with her.
So we packed up and left — and our entire day was wasted. To make matters worse, we were probably an hour or two from being finished. The opening scenes of the film would have been shot.
And it’s not like this isn’t hard enough — getting everyone together, coordinating everything, making use of Guy while we have him, working on TJ’s days off, etc. So it was heartbreaking that everything we had done was completely useless. Unfinished and wasted. We can’t use any of it. We have to start all over on that scene.
We all came back with our tails between our legs, and I felt humiliated and broken. Seriously bummed out.
So this day was a low point. And I told everyone I’d rather that this happen now instead of completely finishing the movie and having it tied up in legal matters should they object. In the overall scheme, it’s just one day. But it doesn’t make it any less frustrating. We were so close. But, oh well.
And this is why we always get release forms signed. We always cover our bases, go through the correct channels. This time we didn’t — we relied on what we thought was an insider contact, and it reached up and bit us. A very important lesson learned.
So it’ll take a day for the sting to wear off. I woke up today extremely depressed and doubting myself. What in the world have I gotten myself into? Why did I ever think I could pull this off? How are we ever going to finish this film?
But we will. We will regroup, start all over and find another location, and just forge ahead. Somehow. I’ve had crushing blows like this before and refused to give up, so I’ll refuse to give up again.
But maybe not until tomorrow.
-r.
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