I am pressing onwards into the foothills and I sense my first view of the movie mountain is still many days walk away. However, like any mountaineer will tell you, this sherpa-like zen-test is not to be shirked or treated lightly: I am acclimatizing. But on some days I become more, rather than less, confused.
I am collecting a host of information on cameras. Canon XL2 – great, tried, tested, and has 24p and interchangeable lenses. The new Sony HVR-Z1U is HiDef and highly touted BUT it only has a fixed lens and is a new unit. There’s a commonly held opinion that a funny movie needs funny lenses – my bet is that the zoom on the Sony isn’t that funny. What’s the word people? Feel free to share…
Word is getting out about our plans and the letterbox is filling up with actors eager to join our team. My guess is that E-mail is making your average actor’s life easier: they point and click and I get a resume and a head-shot. Winners: the environment. Losers: USPS and printers all over the LA basin. However I will not be paying $29.99 to open the headshot I received this morning. I’m not a compu-genius but Adobe, Word and some other stuff has me covered so I’m saving that 30 bucks for something already in the budget!
I am definitely not 29 anymore. The cold dawn of this realization was delivered to me outside the Improv one night last week. I went to check out a highly touted stand-up guy for the movie, bought my ticket stood in line, and stood in line, and stood in line. After 45 minutes of listening to the guy behind me acquaint his buddies with the intracies up his upward career path and how he’d been ‘conversating’ all afternoon with this cool chick in a voice so loud that people in the Groundlings Theater (which is 10 blocks away) could hear him I split. a) I was in no mood to have someone make me laugh and I felt the stand-up guy inside was probably a stand-up guy and deserved better and b) it was late and I wanted to get my beauty sleep in before we get into production.
A word to describe me at this point. Four letters rhymes with gimp. Onwards people…
