Post-Production Diary: A Break… in a FORD ESCAPE!
25 July 2007 in Blog | Comments enabled

We spent the last couple weeks editing the film for about 4 hours a day. The rest of the day Josh spends doing paying work. I don’t have a lot of paying work right now so I’m helping our producers get ready for the pickups. And I’m lazy… Just kidding.

We’ve finally set the dates. August 23rd thru August 31st. Eight more days of production. I’m actually getting excited to be back on set. It’s definitely a kind of high. Being on set is so much fun. And it will be nice to fill in the blank spaces in the time-line. Right now, for scene 22 all we have is a black screen with white words that say “Nora walks out of the chicken house.” Not very exciting.

This past week we cut together 5 minutes of the film to show to our investors. It’s a sequence toward the end of the 2nd act and it’s packed with excitement. We’re very proud of it and I think the investors are pleased as well. We’re going to have a really good film. Again, I wish I could post footage.

I do have some exciting news to share. A few weeks ago, we were approached by the FORD MOTOR COMPANY and asked if we’d like to come out to Los Angeles and see a taping of the TV show ON THE LOT. They offered to pay our way and give us a new FORD ESCAPE to drive around in. We said YES, of course.

So apparently we get to go out and meet the cast and crew and hang out in LA for a couple days. Thank you FORD!

The really weird thing is that the main picture car in our feature, Dangerous Calling, is a red FORD ESCAPE. Strange coincidence.

I’m really excited about the trip and I’m looking forward to meeting the directors on the show. I do have my favorites but all of them are doing great work and it’s exciting to see how America is really picking the best filmmakers. Its so opposite of film school. The “ARTSY” filmmakers are being weeded out and the “COMMERCIAL” filmmakers are still there.

(I wish it had been that way in film school. I would have been a lot more popular - both with the students and teachers. Film school teachers HATE commercial films - especially Spielberg movies. But I love them. On my first day of class, I told the professor that I thought Spielberg and Lucas “hung the moon” and I never recovered. And no, I don’t know why I said “hung the moon.” It’s called sticking one’s foot in one’s mouth.)

Anyway, we will be sure and write about our LA trip. We leave July 31st.

Jeremiah