It’s getting close to “go time” for Sarah and the Sock Puppet. Our shooting days are next Monday and Tuesday. It’s been a lot of planning to get to this point and we’re all pretty excited to make it happen.
But I’ll tell you it hasn’t been easy. Reserving the beach that we want to film on, or rather the one we settled on, has been quite an ordeal. And it’s compounded by the fact that the park ranger, who is in charge of the state beaches, is super hard to get a hold of. You have to leave him a voicemail and hope that he will return the call. Then when he does call you he wants to get off the phone as soon as possible. Then we were almost late to get the money to the California Film Commission to get our permit. But despite all odds, we have our location secure and will be filming legally, so hopefully no one will bother us.
And our director CJ has been working with the actors at rehearsals to learn their lines and character so we can hit the ground running when we get to set. I haven’t been working with the actors very much, but CJ says they are going to be awesome. There have been a few challenges with the actors too because of their conflicting schedules. They are doing this pro-bono so we can’t really ask them to rearrange their life for us, but it’s one of those situations where you can’t please everyone. But again, despite all odds, we are moving forward.
We have a meeting tonight to tie up loose ends and the weekend to get all the few last things together. There are still some things we have to settle up. And I have tried hard to think of everything that could go wrong and figure out a way to avoid it happening. If I’m lucky, nothing too serious will blow up in my face.
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