Monday 30 January 2023

Now what?

The cast Screening is done so now it's time to move onto the next project. I'm on page 40 of Ghost of Thunder Lake.  I have no actors interested in working on this film yet. My guess I will be finding all new actors for the project. 
All the actors of Greg's Treasure Map are interested in U12 Boys Diving and Zombie Zone. I'm not quite ready to write the U12 film yet but I'm getting close. 
The zombie zone 82 film I have the script outline ready to go but it's always hard to give the caritures a voice. I need to hang around with a bunch of kids to refind how they talk and interact.

Wednesday 25 January 2023

Mac mini?

Looking at $3,000 or so for a M2 Mac Mini with 32 GB Ram,  1TB storage and using proxy files for editing 4k that should work fine. Then it's just some kind of 4k monitor. Ugh 

Tuesday 24 January 2023

Digital cinema package

Just got an email that the Digital cinema package file I made works fine on the theaters projector. She says it looks really good.  That's one huge stress off my shoulders. 
Script writing and casting is the next huge task at hand.

Monday 23 January 2023

Audio Fix

One thing we need to help make films is a wireless plug on transmitter for our boom pole. 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1385619-REG/sennheiser_skp_100_g4_a_skp_100_g4_plug_on.html

And receiver.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1385604-REG/sennheiser_ek_100_g4_a_ek_100_g4_wireless.html

Or the best idea is a kit like this so the two parts work to get her for sure. Same price as the two parts. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1385591-REG/sennheiser_ew_100_eng_g4_a1_ew_100_eng_g4.html

Tuesday 17 January 2023

4K video editing

With the new camera I'm now working on a replacement computer that can edit 4k video. I'm thinking to go with DaVinci Resolve as it's free. I have my old freind Goerge working on putting an old video gaming computer together that can run the software. Hopefully it doesn't cost much as it's all used parts but he may also just give it to me for free. 20 years ago I donated a brand new $1200 computer to his kids so they could play videos games. 

Tuesday 10 January 2023

What's cooking?

I'm currently writing the script for Ghost of Thunder Lake and setting up the casting calls for it. Filming starts late July 2023.
I'm currently planning the script for the U12 Boys diving film. Also replanning it for a much smaller budget than originally planned. Back in Jan 2020 I had 15 boys in diving lessons and this time around only 4 with two more joining in May. They started lessons this week. 
Pool rental fees are up by 50% over two years ago. I haven't found out if they reopened pool rental to the average Joe like me. Fingers crossed I can book the pool rental for July as planned.  I do have a back up plan if they don't.

Monday 9 January 2023

Submiting to Tiff

Drew really wants me to submit Greg's Treasure Map to TIFF so my plan is to do so. We are going to have a cast screening on Jan 28 and I will find out what the guys think. To submit or not to submit. If it's going to TIFF I would upload to YouTube until October 2023. If it's not going to TIFF I may up load it sooner. 
In other news YouTube has decided that they are over paying me for ads on my videos. I use to make $1 per 1,000 views.  I now get $0.47 per 1,000.  It will now take 3 years to make 100 $ to get a check. 
I love making films, I have been since I was 5 and I will continue to do so. Hopefully I can find some paid work to cover the cost. If not I will make what ever film I can with no cash. It's not like I haven't done that before. "I make films not money."

Saturday 7 January 2023

Film Scripts

I'm just working on film script outlines before jumping in and writing them. I'm not a big fan of re writes as it always messes up the films flow.