Magic Film Potion Recipe

The next 3 weeks will determine the next few months of our lives with respect to LIS. We will either be making Lost In Sunshine, and be thrown full force into pre-production as of April 1st (some of us already are!), and begin shooting April 19th, OR we'll be forced to regroup for a later shoot this year. But right now it's all about April. Actually, right now it's about March... March 29th, to be specific. That's our deadline for securing necessary funds.

It goes something like this:

We must secure locations in order to productively move forward with the majority of storyboarding. And storyboarding takes lots of time. But it's hard to secure locations without a solid affirmative on our shooting schedule/budget info, and it gets more complicated with everyone's other schedules coming into play.

We've recently had a crew change, sadly losing our line producer, Michelle, to other work (it happens, and we wish her well!) so the lovely and talented, Megan Gilbride, has ambitiously stepped in to assist us with line producer needs at this time. Thank you, Megan!! Like a film friend recently told me, ".. it takes the right group of people to make these projects happen..." Like a magic potion recipe - you have to get all the ingredients just right for it to work.

AND, time is of the essence.

Our casting director, Vicky Boone, is currently approaching our lead male hopeful, and we need this budget information to determine other factors to provide the agency with... which could determine if the actor is even available/willing to do it. And, we need (tentatively) secured locations in order to move forward with storyboarding in a productive manner.

Bottom line: Everything revolves around everything else. If one person drops the ball, it's like dropping it on all of our heads! And quite frankly, it hurts. Each person is equally important to the team's success.

May you all find your magic film potion recipe!

Dating motels

Today, I did a little 'motel' scouting in Dripping Springs for LIS. Met with a lovely lady that Lorie introduced me to, Laurie, who's going to be my DS connection, too. So excited about that!

After many scouting trips with my gals, Ia and Iskra, this is a motel in Austin we're deeply contemplating. Question is, can my art goddess, Ia (I know she can) transform this place to match my vision, and under our budgetary restrictions? We shall see.. tomorrow.. as we venture over together.

I feel like I've been dating motels over the last several months. I found this little gem several months ago, but I was holding off..waiting on something 'better' to come along.. now I'm thinking this is the 'better' I've been looking for.

If Ia can work her magic, Iskra agrees, and they're 'film friendly' (have an idea they will be) and available for us, then this could be an option.

Ia presented me with another list of motels to check out tonight (thank you, Ia!) but I'm crossing my fingers that this one works out.. for something. ;)

Have a happy HUMPday, folks.
Jentri

New pictures from Sunshine scout on Thursday

Here are a few more pictures from our latest scout. We've finally decided - no really - for real this time - on our "Sunshine."

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Lost In Sunshine production meeting with Lorie in town: S 16 mm vs. The Red One

Hello, hello!

It's been a long time coming - but Lost In Sunshine's producer, Lorie's in town again - yay!!!

Yesterday, me and Lorie met with our art director, Ia, director of photography, Iskra, editor, Nevie, line producer/1st AD, Michelle, and our dear filmmaker friend, Kat Candler in Kat's north central office and talked for about 3 fun hours....

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This is how we do it in Sunshine.

Lorie gets us up to speed in her recent blog titled, "Still here" so perfectly, that I think it's best you read our production status there! :)

Meanwhile, I'll fill you in on the *writer-director's perspective of how we're getting it done in Sunshine....

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Lost In Sunshine September Updates

Pleased to say that we're ON OUR WAY!!

The location scouting has begun with Laura. Here's an image of one of our cafes we plan to shoot in. The large rustic image is of a cotton gin, and the others are simply buildings occupying the town to give you a sense of its character. The town's people were so gracious, inviting, and excited. It was refreshing to see their glowing faces when we said we were "filming a movie" there. That has, lucky for me, and surprisingly, never been done before in this tiny little Texas town....

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