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November

November 6, 2008 on 2:15 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

So, November is here already. I completely missed October because I was stuck at a hotel that charged an arm and a leg for internet access. I only went on a few times and I was so busy when I did trying to get everything I wanted to done that I never even thought about coming here. So few people bother to read this that keeping it up to date hardly seems worthwhile sometimes. But still I go on, I’ve always talked to myself so I don’t know why now would be any different.

Lets see… what news is there…? Well I have some concerning my immigration. About a month and a half ago now I went to court and the outcome was very promising, if a little annoying. Long story short they reviewed my file and said that everything I needed was here and this could/should have been over a long time ago (No freakin’ foolin’). So they set another (final) court date for the 27th of October. We went away happy and dazed, we talked to our lawyer and agreed to call her a week or so before the 27th so that we could get together and make sure everything was ready for the 27th. the 27th. Do you notice how I keep saying that; the 27th. Anyway around the 23rd or 24th I called my lawyer and left a message. The next day she called me back and informed me that she had received a letter from the court telling her (us) that my case had once again been closed because we failed to appear in court on the 22nd. That’s right the 22nd.

SO, my lawyer is now filing an appeal and requesting to listen to the court recording and hopefully the tape will show that everyone is clearly saying the 27th. One thing that may stand against us is that in court the judge filled out and handed my lawyer an appointment letter which clearly says the 22nd, BUT my lawyer failed to look at it because she like us was firmly under the impression that our appointment was for the 27th.

So now we are in a holding pattern once more. we took a small step forward and it looked like we were within reach… but then the floor started to shift under our feet… only time will tell if we can reach out and grab on to something solid, something strong enough to hold onto and take us all the way through this. of course after so many years all that this will do will let us do what we are already doing, just a little more legally. it isn’t like this being finalized will bring us some great dividend. We don’t get back any of the thousands of dollars we have spent, or the countless hours spent worrying. there is no monetary settlement waiting for us when this is all over, just some small hollow modicum of peace.

Sigh. ok that’s enough of that poetic self pitying crap. on to better things. in the past couple of months I have shot a new short film, edited it almost to completion, I am currently working on the music for it (hopefully it will be good enough to be the final music). I have filmed my parents in law’s 25th anniversary re-commitment ceremony with my new (cheap - but very cool) High Definition camera and tentatively gotten back in touch with someone who will help me finish my Star wars fan-film/documentary to a satisfactory conclusion. this has inspired me to push on and finish all of the outstanding projects that I have backing up on me, yes I know I have been talking about that for a year or more now but this has re-fueled my passions. I think that i just now decided that my goals will be this: Finish Babysitter and Roadkill by Christmas/New years and Dark Genesis, Random acts and possibly do something with a partial film called “Trials” in the first 3 months of next year. I have a plethora of ideas and projects whirling around in my head right now, I need to go before i ramble on more and hopefully get much work done. lets see what good news I have next time huh?

Falling behind and catching up

September 15, 2008 on 11:35 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Hey people. I don’t think I posted at all in August… I meant to, especially for my birthday. But oh well, I was a little busy. I have been busy and I am going to be busy for a little while yet, I have plenty to do now that principle photography is done for “The Babysitter”. Things went quite well, not perfectly and not exactly how I planned but things came out ok and isn’t that what is important?

I tried harder with my lighting techniques… I’ll let you guys be the judges when it’s done as to how I did. I tried harder to delegate jobs to people so that I wasn’t doing everything myself all the time… that could have been a lot better, I need more people working with me - unfortunately most of my friends aren’t exactly local. But oh well.

I still want to do some pick up shots but the lead actress has been rehearsing for a musical and has been very busy, I just need about an hour or so with her and one other actor and I should be able to get all of my missing or corrected shots.

One thing I did notice while filming is that I had some trouble keeping order on my set, something I had a little trouble with on Roadkill but I had more trouble with this time because I had more people on set (well on location) because well… they lived there. my lead actor would go off in between takes and talk with them, things would get a little “Relaxed” and then calling for quiet or for people to settle down was tough. That is something that I definitely want to work on next time is to run a tighter set, I feel that I really let me lead actress down a little bit in that respect. It couldn’t have been easy being the only “girl” on a set for most of the time.

What else… I Just released the 6th chapter of Roadkill, it’s only about 2 months late (If you factor in the fact that the last couple of chapters were themselves late). I am going to start work on getting 7 ready to go, if it goes well I might even post that before I go back out to work on Thursday to try and make up for their cumulative lateness. That plus I do not know what the internet situation is going to be at this next hotel and considering I am going to be there for a month I think it might be a good idea to get as much up online now as possible.

ok people, until next time…

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