'Memoirs of the Blue' Moving Back Out of the Red

As many of you know, the film project that we shot in Antigua last November (Memoirs of the Blue) has since lost some steam for a myriad of reasons, most of which stem from being under prepared for taking on such a monumental task as filming a feature film with a crew of 4-8 in one months time, and from having the four main group members spread across 3 different corners of the globe -- Vancouver, Halifax, Germany.

But the project looks like it will be pulled out of the danger zone now after a meeting with one of our producers/financiers who is understandably unimpressed at the apparent state of limbo the project seems to be in. Thus, we've started to develop and implement a plan of action in order to progress this thing forward in the most timely and efficient way possible.

Things that we need to work around now include a plethora of technical issues in the way on editing, re-shoots and pickup shooting, editing, special effects, sound editing/design/scoring, and some legal issues to name a few.

Good news though is that our one female counterpart, Natalie, has talked with some of the people at the postproduction house that she works for and has been able to get us a deal for sound and some contacts and information in the realm of distribution for the project once it reaches its final stages.

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In other news, I've finally started banking some money with the job I'm working at now, putting it almost as much OT as I possibly can in the past month, so of course that means that now I have some money to put towards some other short film projects that I've been been hoping to do in order to get some more experience and to have something more to show for.

As well, my roommate Marc-Anthony and I have being polishing up minor details of our script, showing to a few people in the know, and getting some pretty good responses so far. That is one of the most interesting things we have going right now a think because it's a project that both of us believe really strongly in.

Aside from that, I'm currently looking into getting into doing some behind-the-camera, Production Assistant work, and am going to be meeting up with Lauro some time in this coming week to talk about that sort of thing and maybe iron a few of my own plans out for what I really want to make out of my career, etc.

Anyways, its a road I still seem to be starting on down, only time will tell where it leads or what the speed limit is! ;)

Until next time,
Joki