Saturday, May 03, 2003 :::
 

I still have to finish up the Indie Cleveland Production Workshops. but I have stopped doing anything toward Indie Cleveland (IC). I feel a huge weight has been lifted off of me now. I can concentrate on Prelude2Cinema (p2c). IC had its moments, but the community wasn't as supportive as it could have been. I did my part and that was that. Moving on now.

Tomorrow I see Alex R and show her the footage from the TV show. She had a nice chemistry with me. Why do I seem to have chemistry with teenage girls, I don't know? I don't remember having too much chemistry with them when I was a teenager. Odd. Anyhow, won't think too much on that one. It is just a TV show after all and not real life. I have no real life anyway.

In June I will not shot anything new or even finish up anything old. if it is not shot by then, then it doesn't go in the story. After June, I will just work on editing and marketing. I have some footage I need to really get done for the two features, but it is still a space issue on the computer. And now that I can do DV files, it really is tight on space. I could use some money to pay back some people and get some new hard drives. My current producers are a little tapped out and the income could fly in nicer then it has been doing. Oh well, I still have faith that things will come around in the next few months. Just have to get that focus back.

Relaxed by seeing "X-Men" today. A fun and good movie. Seeing things like that remind me why I am in the business. Telling a good story and having all those people in the dark looking up at it for a few moments makes a lot of difference. Of course I don't have the budgets they have to do those types of movies, but I will get there.

Need to still do some different things here, to get things moving along in the right direction. I am in a good spot right now, but I'll be damned if I'll like this spot if I am here again next year.

::: posted by Alex at 9:39 PM

Tuesday, April 29, 2003 :::
 

Finally did it. I changed the Indie Cleveland site to something I call Indie Reporter. A take on the Hollywood Reporter. Decided that after the workshops, I am not doing anything else toward Indie Cleveland. The Yahoo group is still out there and people seem to make use of it, so that is all fine and well. Still being involved in that little community effort was not one of my better ideals. In theory, it was fine and some have benefitted, but it took too much time away from things and the workshop didn't work out as smoothly as it should have. In a zen like manner, as long as some benefitted, then I feel it wasn't completely a waste, but in the future, I will not do anything like it again.

The interview with JT Petty was a nice thing. I still have to see if I can get "Blood Kiss" to screen at Ms. If I had the capital, I would pay for the screening, but spent too much. Never been one to think what could have been abd what I should have did. That way lies madness, but I do learn for the future.

Have to be a little more selfish and focuesd on getting p2c capitalized and forgot the community (for now). Can't help anyone if I need help and besides some people I don't wish to help. Anyway all in all, the shoot this past Sunday went well. Alex R was nice to work with. Alex is a she. We did a new scene and I added Joan from the workshop. Andy and Mae did nice work with the camera. Still having a hard time pinning down Mister B for the workshop. So, this will be the year I learn to cut ties with people. Not that I won't cross their paths, but have to honestly know who to deal with and who not to. It's been a long time I have been dealing with the same folk and we all seem to be in the same boat, so the only way to movie on, is to jump out the boat with them.

In June, I should really get away for a while.

::: posted by Alex at 9:55 PM