Sorry for the late posting. I usually post every Monday during my down time at my MTV internship. However this was no ordinary Monday. My department is moving from the 8th floor to the 17th floor. And yes, upgrade in floor height equates to amount of respect (that is probably not true but I can believe, right?). Anyway, I was archiving loose tapes all day today and never got to my ritualistic down time. So I post now. I am sure nobody really cares. Yes, it would be nice to wake up to an updated blog/feed but Mondays are my days where I collect my thoughts on the previous week. So having to look back on this Monday as well is just added value. But enough with the prologue, now comes the meat of this post.
Last week, as you may or may not remember from that post (it's right below this one), finding actors is very hard. So I posted a Casting Call for my digital short on craigslist.org. I posted it in the TV/Film/Video list of the Philadelphia section. I did not expect much due to the vastness of the list. However after a few hours, I had 7 e-mails from people interested in the digital short. To say the least I was floored. I waited until the next day to reply because I did not want to repeat myself...digitally. By then I had 13 actors interested. However the actual auditions proved to be a problem. It was Friday at this point and I should have started production at least a week ago, if not two weeks ago. So I wanted to hold the auditions on Sunday, which is super-late notice. To no surprise almost all of the actors could not make the audition. I say almost because one could. That actor lives on the corner of Olden and Rte. 31, 2 minutes from the campus. So I called off the auditions. I spent all of Saturday contemplating my options. I did not want to fail. I wanted to make this movie. But how? After some time I realized that the answer has been staring me in the face.
This semester has been plagued with the exact opposite of what a Styx song suggests, not enough time on my hands. Spring Break is next week. What better time to shoot a digital short than a completely open week? So now I have enough production time. But what about the actors? For this answer, I looked to a Hollywood director that I can relate to, Robert Rodriguez. His first feature-length film, El Mariachi, was made with family and friends as the actors. By the way, it is a very good movie that is the predecessor to his Desperado, with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. So I will use my familiar resources around my home back in North Jersey. Here, I can have a much more flexible schedule and I might have the cooperation of the local Police Station. I am excited once again with this digital short and I expect great things. Currently, I am putting together a long-overdue production timeline for this and next week. Keep you browser or aggregator pointed here for an update to this post. I will be posting the production timeline soon...and sorry for the long post.
~Greg Z~
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