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time. If you can't get past the first day, you can't get past filming a movie, because, inevitably, it's going to get much worse. Art comes from pain, and your film is going to artistically stab you. I don't care what movie you're making, it's going to stab you. Accept this, and we can proceed.For example, take the first day of our maiden voyage, The Rough Cut. The camera wasn't charged, there was a severe lack of working tapes, leather bound fight scenes ended in near heatstroke, and, worst of all, my hair looked terrible. On the first day of pre-production for Splinterwood, when we all gathered around and shook hands for the first time, it was over the lifeless body of a baby kitten, who's adorability was nothing short of LOL cat. It was dropped (unwanted) from a moving car, after which is seized to death. And, on the first day of Code of Honor, we had trials and tribulations that will go undiscussed until our tell-all autobiographies, but car accidents and epically unsuccessful guerilla filmmaking were among our tests on that day.
Now, on a more positive note, everything looks great. We got Shawn into the Autumn Seed,
a spaceship we built inside of Jim Allen's van. Steel bars from Home Depot created the framework for the ship, with computer monitors and HDTV playing the computer displays Mike made in after effects (very similar to what he did for the Voodoo Ninja's introduction in The Rough Cut). We got to test out the 750 watt lights that we bought from Home Depot, which you may know from the screenshots as the sun. And, as we started building the ship last week, Mike had been driving around with it in his car for days. Luckily, it's been disassembled, and will shortly be reassembled as the smuggler ship. That's the plan for today: build the smuggler ship. I'll be playing to pilot, Jasco, so be sure to check out my brief cameo when you buy the DVD to support our next ridiculous project.
More updates soon,
dk
