K I know there are typos, i’m on an iPod. Will be fixed soon.
At this time next week, we should (Insh’Allah) be done shooting a new short film, “The Impractical Job”. It’s the story of a man (Ben Wright) who decides to rob a video game store so he can trade the games back in and buy himself some tap dance shoes.
We actually filmed about 85% of it in March 2007, but, due mostly to technical difficulties and partly to insufficient effort on my part, it didn’t make it all the way to online release.
I’ve wanted to reshoot for a while now, and my lazy side just this afternoon forgave my proactive side for telling Ben that I was interested in reshoots over spring break and thus essentially commiting to following through. When the thought crossed my mind that I only did one fictional narrative film in all of 2008, and even that for a pressure-on 48 hour film competition, I realized I actually WANT to do this. I’ve been all talk, no action - exactly the kind of person I don’t like.
So as I kick into high gear on Montage 2009 (our district-wide film festval), I figure I might as well do the same on the film side while getting scholarship applcations sorted. I knew I worked well under pressure, I just didn’t realize it was so crucial to my sucess.
Screenplay rewrites tommorrow. Let’s do this.
