Doin' work

Not much to report for this post.

Still going into work everyday from 9:30a till about 7:00p. Things have been a little more quite around the office as some of our people are out on location filming. We're stretching across the entire U.S.

As for the Motion Picture Cooperative, we posted a new video for our Funny Shorts project. PREGGERS. It's pretty awesome. What make it even better is my cameo. Who knew a doctor could look so good? Check it out:

Catching up...

I feel bad for not being more diligent with these posts. I think it is a problem that plagues a lot of amateur bloggers. Alas, I have been afflicted as well.

So let's get out of this information debt!

On the Sarah and the Sock Puppet front: Yesterday we finished our principle photography. It's a big step in getting the film finished. I'd say we are 2/3 of the way finished (Pre-production, Production, Post-production) and all we need now is to assemble the footage into something worth while. No small task, yet the end is in sight.

On the job front: I am working full time for a management/production company called Generate. I work as an office PA for the production part of things. The show we are producing is a web based financial reality show called "The Invested Life" <- *click to check it out*. There is a fine line I walk between what I can talk about, production wise, so forgive me if I am ever cryptic. But there is definitely a lot of awesome stuff going on. Today I got to sit in on a legal meeting! Well, that stuff is awesome to me... At least I am learning stuff that is important to know in the future. I can say that I have grown to really enjoying working here and am learning a lot about putting a show together.

I think that just about does it. I guess that wasn't too much to catch up on. Stay tuned...

Bad weather = Bad news

So much for good luck with SATSP...

We had to cancel our Day 3 yesterday. The culprit: Bad weather.

As much as you can fix things in post production, you can't really change a rainy day for a hot and sunny day. Well, maybe you can, but I don't own a money tree, so that is kind of out of the question. But one day!

This really is pretty bad news because the last day on our insurance is tomorrow. We are filming our Day 4 stuff today (at least I think we are, I had to be at work and not on set), but we cannot come back to film under our insurance time frame due to scheduling issues with the actors. And we can't really afford to get more insurance because of our shoe string budget. Thus, we are going to have to get creative.

The actors have availability next week, so maybe we can put something together. It is going to be interesting to see how this shapes up.

Last days of filming for SATSP

So only two more days till we finish the filming part of Sarah and the Sock Puppet.

Wait, two more days? Is that really it? Awesomeness.

Our third day, which is tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct 6), is our last day with SAG actors. We are going to finish all the scenes with Sarah and The Sock Puppet. It's going to be a pretty full day. We have to make sure we get everything we need. And there is a lot that we need.

Our fourth and last day is going to be all visual effects stuff. There are a couple of scenes where it is just the sock doing crazy stuff and we don't really need the actors to be there for that. That will probably be another really long day because if we don't get the shot then, there is a chance we are not going to get it.

I have to work for these last two day, so I won't be on set. Hopefully they will make it without me... oh, who am I kidding, they'll be fine. But even though I won't be on set, that doesn't mean that I'm not doing anything. I had to get a new permit for these two additional days, I had to prep someone to do my duty in my absence and I am going to make the breakfast.

Yup, breakfast burritos for cast and crew. I did it for the first two days, and I will do it for these, too. Kristin (the other producer) and I get together 1 hour before call time (5:15 am) and cook up a ton of eggs and bacon and put it a tortilla and wrap it in foil so that it will be ready for everyone when they arrive. Whatever we can do to save money!

I haven't gotten a chance to watch any of the footage yet, but I asked CJ about it. He said that it looked good, pretty much how he planned it to look. So I guess we are doing something right.