buckle down

this past weekend was one of the best weekends in a while. the trip to new york was better than ever, and me and paul were able to show the current version of the film to andrew and tom. they were both absolutely blown away by it, and it's very cool that they're both incredibly excited about it. there are still a bunch of little tweeks that i need to do to the current version. but, the gist of the film is definitely there. for quite a while, i was a little worried that nobody would get the film - that it was too abstract. but so far, the few people who have seen it totally get it. and they're actually elaborating much more into the themes and meanings represented, while is total cool.

so, now that me and paul are back in dc, it's time to buckle down and focus on all the different things that we want to do with the film - final digibeta masters, organize the local cast and crew screening, update the website, put together the press kit, and start submitting the project into consideration for the festivals. it's going to be a lot of work, but i'm definitely trying to take each step one at a time. i'm confident that it'll all come together.

this weekend, i have a couple of other close friends - j, wes, and tim from the crew, and my friends morrigan and mike, they're all gonna come over to check out the current version of the film. i think it'll be good to have other honest opinions about the film, and how to tighten it up even more. tho, i'm confident that everyone will be excited about it as well. fortunately, we're planning to hire a writer friend of ours to help with the press release, and various synopsises for the film. we also have some friends who are going to help with the website stuff, and also organizing the screening too. so, it's all good...

so, i started playing around with movie poster ideas, and messing around with photoshop. i'd like to come up with several ideas, and to have all this material ready. i also enjoy the design aspect of this phase of production. i'll really have to think about the images, and how they represent the film, and if they do that in the best way possible. but it's also fun to play around with images and see what stuff you can come up with.

so, it's time to buckle down, but it's really cool to think that this film will do really well, and it'll definitely make a lot of people think. which, i find, is all really grand...