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Working Blues Funding

So I put together an IndieGoGo page in order to try and secure funding for finishing this project (I.e. post work, Crafty, and to pay the few people that will require it on set). Please help spread the word to your friends!

How Not To Make a Short Film.

So I read this wonderful book in one sitting. Not a bad read at all. I got a lot of useful information out of it that I was not getting out of my other research. Thank you Kevin Campbell for suggesting it. So now after lots more research and meditation, my Thesis is getting revised again. This time in a more beneficial way. I think instead of taking baby steps, I am starting to take strides. The preproduction end of my Thesis is moving sluggishly, but that is good, because I am taking my time now to make sure that every single last detail is in line before I shoot again on my project. Thank you Cyan for your words about making sure everything is lined out. Now that I have had some time to actually sleep and take a step back and assess my project, I can see the faults in the way I had the short film structured. So now the story focuses on the tension that builds between two friends who are laid off from the same mechanic shop and are struggling to find work. That is the focus, and the end is more intense, and at the same time I fear the ending. I will have to shoot it a couple different ways to see which ending is going to read properly and not end up as a shortcoming of the script, will it trend to read as predictable? Maybe, but that is the test of the acting performance I can wrangle out of my actors. I also talked to some people in the area and now have a sound engineer on board for shooting and post, as well as an editor, working now on a script supervisor and A.D. for this beast. I think with the crew that is assembling, this piece has a lot of room to thrive. BTW, I got my 5D IN YESTERDAY! So I have to make some time tonight to read its manuals and do some test shots so I can understand its strengths and limitations for my shoot. well, back to my studies. Going to read Save The Cat(!) now. I will post on that later. Until next time.