Back to the Drawing Board for a Little While

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I’ve been pretty busy working on the latest script. I actually finished it earlier this week, after which I emailed it to six friends to read it and give me feedback: Josh Brinen, Dina Buckler, Ella Good, Brett Larkin, Paul Wang and Roland Wolff. After that, it goes out into the world so that I can raise money for it. I have these leads that I want to pursue, and somebody has expressed interesting in managing my career. Such as it is. So, we’ll see what happens.

Matutinal Reverie is getting veeeery close to being done. I met with Kyle at Broadway Video to fix Scene 3 on the Smoke system, and it really looks a gazillion times better. We spent about three hours together, and he did this really amazing thing wherein he gradually darkens the sky behind Andy and Melody as they’re walking along. It’s so subtle that you don’t even really notice it unless you’re paying attention. And you can see the clouds in the night sky, which works out perfectly because a few scenes later, when Andy and Melody are outside during the scene wherein Madeleine is begging Barnard to call Ashley to get drugs for her, it’s raining. So, that’s a bit of a plus. Also, the shot between the long walking two shot and the one where it suddenly goes from dusk to the dead of night is a close up of a cell phone. Kyle also gradually darkened that one, too, in such a way that it’s hard to see. The result is that when it suddenly becomes pitch black outside, it doesn’t seem so jarring. I really feel relieved about this. I was pretty worried about that.

Thanks, Kyle.

And since then I’ve had another color correction session with Trish, which went super well. We got a lot accomplished, and decided that we really only probably need one more to finish the thing.

But there's always something to complicate matters.

As it turns out, the finances for the movie have run a bit dry, and so we're on hold for another two to three months. Which sucks. I'm not happy about it, but that's life. I will finish. End of story. The other interesting thing is that, in the end, this may work out to the movie's advantage. The other morning, I woke up and had some ideas for a few things that I want to change. I'm considering cutting out all of Andy's direct to camera addresses. And the two television shows that the characters watch. And a scene in the first third of the movie wherein Barnard takes a cab from Ashley's apartment back to his own. And I may also get rid of a title at the movie's opening which states "Back in 2005...". I just don't like it. But first, I want to contact Bill Seery to see how complicated it'll be to do this and deal with the audio of the movie.

Lastly, I'm considering changing the title of the movie. Not that there's anything wrong with Matutinal Reverie. It just breathe a bit of new life into it for me to call it something else. Maybe something long. Don't know yet.