Confession

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Originally uploaded by zeelje

I hate watching the footage I've shot.

It's not that I dislike the footage, think it's bad or any other permentiation of the sort. In fact, from what I've seen on set I adore my footage. It's just that rewatching it stresses me out like nothing else.

I rewatch the footage and I start second guessing, trying to debate if the footage will cut together, did I get all the angles I need, etc. This feeling stays with me until I see the footage start to be put together in editing.

I think that one day, when I have a budget and know that I can afford to make little mistakes watching dalies and footage may not bother me as much on some levels; however, I do not think the complete concern over my job as a director will ever go away. That is with me until I see the fottage being put together by an editor.

The artistic process is made up of small stress moments for me. But I still love the process.

Harry Potter Junkie

So they announced that The Tales of Beedle Bard are coming out to the mass market. Of course I am buying my copy...but there's a special (limited) edition of the book on amazon.com. It's more expensive, but it looks like the ones J.K. Rowling made for auction.

Guess which one I'm getting?

AFM

I just started looking up more information for the final stages of my film. I really shouldn't do that yet as it is mind boggling.

I jsut spent a good deal of time absorbed in the American Film Market website. Obviously, my feature won't be completed in time to shop it at this years conference at the beginning of November; but by next November if I haven't found distribution yet that is definitely a way to proceed. An expensive way, but a way.

The most mind-boggling thing on there is that they have laid out steps for the first time attendee to follow if they intend to try and shop their project.

My brain now hurts.

I can only continue to pray that all the efforts of everyone involved in this project manage to come together the way I've been praying they are and that God does use this project to help us all jump into the careers we want instead of the jobs we work at now.

I am 26 years old and I am ready to stop pretending to enjoy my daily life; I am a director and I want to be one. I do not think that God would have given me this drive and passion if He didn't want me to do something with it.

So as I continue to pray, please join me in that effort.

Hoax

iHoax™
Originally uploaded by berbercarpet

So as we all know was the truth, the Goergian finders of Big Foot were lying. They of course made it all up and thought it was funny.

The finniest part is now the idiots are the subject of legal action and they apparently want to rely on the defense that it was all "a joke" that got out of hand.

Have fun with that in court.

Seriously, I think people are getting dumber with every generation.

Random Quote #14 of Many...

"Robert Mitchum played the drunk in El Dorado. Dean Martin played the drunk in Rio Bravo. Basically, it was the same part. Now John Wayne, he did the same in both. He played John Wayne."

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