Sometimes I can't help but look around and notice just how much has changed in my life. It seems that every time I get comfortable with the status quo it changed on me. I think that's all that life is in the end. Change. Sometimes good sometimes bad but always different. If life doesn't change than what would be the point?
With life constantly moving and shifting around us it can give us hope. True it can also lead to fear but that is also a good motivator. You have to keep moving forward, keep trying to change everything to get what you want out of life. To get where you need to go. No one is going to hand you your dreams on a stick no matter how important you think you are. You have to go out there and fight for it. Go out there and be the change you want to see in the world. I've always been the type of guy who puts friends before myself and lately I've started to really notice that friends are part of my ever changing life. There are a few friends who I'm just as close to now as I was half a decade ago but most have fallen to the wayside and even the ones I still talk to by and large aren't apart of life anymore. It has taught me a great lesion. You can be there for your friends, but don't put them above yourself. Keep moving towards your goal or you will end up with nothing and your "friends" won't stick around. Sounds sad I know but it's just what I started to notice. The gang talks Jurassic World at last! They also dive into the criminal underworld of the real live Antman!
Yesterday was such a great day! Half Price Book Store has finally come back to Irving Texas! Inside I found a retro machine that plays Nintendo games. Yes Nintendo! As in NES. Afterward I had to run off to set where I'm working on my friends movie. It was a great day! We filmed action scenes all day. A fight between about 10 characters all happening at once. It was an amazing experience, I learned so much on set yesterday. I wish everyday could be like that.
After filming went out for drinks and exchanged set stories. It's the life of a film maker and I couldn't love it more if I tried. Honestly it was beyond enjoyable. A lot of Dallas filmmakers seem to have spent a lot of time in Europe. I would love to go there some time. Man this is the life for me! I can't wait till it's my set that people are blogging about. The night ended perfectly. I hung out with Ashley and Lawrence and played Super Mario Brothers 3. What better way to cap off a great night? It felt like wearing an old glove playing that game. Like a long lost friend who has finally come back into my life after so long. It was life changing. I've never been so happy. If only everyday could be like yesterday!! What's up Blueroof Nation! So yesterday I promised an update for the read through. I'm glad to say that it went great!
We lost an actor which is a set back but everyone else is in board. The cast seemed to have really got into the script. Laughing when they were supposed to and being shocked when I wanted them to be. It was an amazing experience watching people get into the story and enjoying it. There is nothing like it. Creating something and getting the reactions out of people that you want. It was one of the highlights of my life. I can't wait for us to start filming! Then I can relive the experience with you my Blueroof Nation! So today is the big day. We are having our first read through for Trapped in the Woods at 6:30. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time. I remember about 3 years ago when I had the first read through for an earlier draft of this movie and how I gathered everyone around the table and kept avoiding the actual read through because I was scared to death of what they would say. By time we started it was just me, Zelda and Lucy and they did tear it apart. I went on to write four other drafts. The fifth of which is what we are reading today. Myself, Ashley, Zelda and Tre are the only people coming back from the original cast.
This time everybody has read the script ahead of time(or so they tell me) so I'm not nervous about what they think. Truthfully I'm more nervous about everyone showing up. I have a lot of people signed on that I've never worked with before and I know next to nothing about their work ethic. I've texted everyone today to remind them about the read through and the lack of responses is not encouraging. It's discouraging if truth be told. The plan is to start filming in two weeks. If I have to recast half of the movie by then it might have to be pushed back even more. It's stressful but hopefully everything works out like it's supposed to. I mean we seem to have a good crew together so I have faith that everything will run smoothly. I'll give you guys an update tomorrow. Take it easy Blueroof Nation! So as many of you know, I love podcasts! Huge fan of listening to them and of making them! I just recorded a three hour episode of my podcast Clean Jeans and around the 2 hour mark it ran out of space, I noticed it fixed it and a few minutes later it ran out of space again but this time I didn't catch it for about 30 minutes. When I did I had to go get a third recorder and record the ending.
There is nothing more annoying than doing work only to realize that it didn't save and is gone. The very first pod I did, well it was a radio show for UTA but still, it was a great episode about horror movies and video games with my friend Saul, of Wolfcast fame. It never got recorded, neither did the follow up episode with my friend J-Bell. When you get sloppy things happen and mistakes get made. You can't let them. You have to be constantly on the look out for Murphy's Law because it is always in full effect and the second you start thinking you're safe from it is when it attacks the hardest. So what do you do when you feel emotionally and physically drained? Like the life is getting sucked out of you drop by drop? I don't know what it is, some days you just don't want to do anything. It is almost like your will has been sucked away and you are nothing more than a husk pretending to be a person. How do you over come this? How do you fight back?
The only answer I see is to keep moving forward. If you just can't go on anymore because everything around you has turned to doom and gloom than you pick yourself up and carry on anyways. What's the alternative? You sit around and wait for it to get better? What if it doesn't? What if it gets worse? I think a big part of why we feel this way is because we are trying to do something that other people can't conceive of. The gang talk about upcoming Marvel and DC movies. And for once they talk about Comic Books!!!!
The worst feeling in the world is when you have an amazing dream that could turn into a one of a kind story but when you wake up you can't find anywhere to write it down. You run around the house looking for paper and a pen and sit down to write and . . . you can't remember anything but the basics and even that is foggy. Why the hell do we forget our dreams so quickly? I wish there was a way to recall dreams as well as I could recall memories. It would make life so much more interesting. But alas we do not yet have this gift.
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