Progress and Time


Today was interesting.  I got to work on things as soon as I got up this morning.  I think I would consider today my first official day of work and not yesterday since it was the first “wake up and begin” type of work day.  There’s a lot of work to do all around the internet, on facebook, a bunch of websites, etc.  Not impossible, it’ll just take a bit.  I’m being paid to hang around on Facebook, post on forums, and do other tasks like that.  It’s a little weird to be honest, although I’ve been doing it for well over two years on my own film.  Speaking of which I released a new video today.  I’ve been waiting for months to release some of this stuff.  I have all sorts of little videos and promotional things to gather interest for the film.  These aren’t some normal behind the scenes videos.  I look at these exactly how I would look at my film.  They need to be good, emotionally charged, and gripping to whoever is watching them.  A friend of mine was online late tonight and I gave it to her to watch first.  A few minutes later she said she was crying.  Bingo…my job is done here! :)

That’s exactly what I need to happen because it’s the only way these videos will make a difference in the grassroots.  I’m excited because I can finally release another after waiting 2 months since Pastor’s video.  I’ll probably do one a month sometime if I can.  Two months is too long as I’ve noticed last months traffic was insanely high but this month is dragging.  I’ll release a new video every time things start to slow to pump it back up again.  It’s about consistency with this stuff, and keeping the interest growing little by little each month.  Dangit I wish we had the money to finish this film right now.  I’m going to send off the new screeners to a few people maybe tomorrow or the next day.  Tomorrow I’m going to make a bunch of phone calls to get the day of shooting nailed down.  It’ll probably be on a Friday if I can do it there.  That’s prime time to use Pastor’s office since he’s gone on Fridays so his office should be free.  Yes, I said shooting.  We have one loose end to tie up that seems to be pretty universal amongst viewers.  It’s all flashback material, no scenes to speak of here…but it’s important information.  It’s funny when you write the script, you direct, you cut scenes out, you come up with new ideas that you don’t use, how easy it is to forget that whoever is watching the film doesn’t have all that information.  They only have what you present them with from fade in to fade out.  So in this case I took a misstep in thinking something would be picked up on.  Perhaps some will, but too many would have questions for me to leave it alone.

I’m off to bed…Lord willing that video will create some buzz…speaking of which view it here and enjoy!

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