I wanted to enter the MoviesAskew.com online film festival. That’s what made this train leave the station.
Back when it was first announced, I thought, this is it. I wanted to make a short film, and I wanted to enter it into this contest. So, I started writing, and I started spending money. I started getting a crew together. Ask this person to star in it, ask this other person to hold the camera. I need to buy a microphone? Crap. Ask someone to hold the microphone.
The name of the script was Addict. It was picked from a list of 6 log lines I wrote one night, after I’d asked my then-girlfriend to get on board and be the producer. I picked two of the log lines and wrote treatments, and the treatment that turned out the best was Addict. I should go back a little further with that, though — a year prior, I’d written an outline for a “sketch” called “MMO Man,” which followed the same basic plot.
I wrote the script. It was a long, arduous process, during which I learned how to screenwrite. I had never written a script before, or even held a real script in my hands. But I was writing one, you betcha. Hacking it out in Microsoft Word, using Screenwriting.info as my guide for margins, pagination, and all that.
It didn’t ever get shot.
The first draft of the script was outright garbage. I had never written a script before, and it showed. The actors backed out. I revised it four times. The revisions failed to draw anybody back to the project. I rewrote it completely with the same basic premise, and called it revision five. Nothing.
I decided to move on to other things.
Fast forward to today.
I’m staring at Final Cut Pro. Selling The Faith is about three-quarters of the way completed. The sequences we have shot are edited, filtered and they’ve been rendered. They’re looking pretty good, continuity errors aside. Everybody on the crew has been doing a really great job. I’m registered to enter the Amazon.com/Tribeca Film Festival with it.
We aren’t going to meet our deadline to enter. There just isn’t enough time. We need another week or so.
Which brings me back to the MoviesAskew.com online film festival. If we don’t make deadline for the Amazon contest, we can just enter it into that one instead.
It’s all coming full circle.
Oh and, I think this is just a beautiful shot. Mullet is a frkking mastermind.
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