The Sky is Falling?

You want to know the frustrations of a filmmaker? Here we go.

Here’s my day today:

-Meeting with agent. It went generally well but — if you’re not patient in this business, you’re probably going to stab yourself at some point. It took a few months for he and I to connect and we connected only for him to ask for a few script samples. I’m fine with it, I just — god, I hate the wait and I wish that my resume and experience spoke for themselves. I feel like they do, but… apparently not? If any agents are reading this, email me — I’m very funny.

-As I mentioned previously, we need to export, up-res and consolidate all of our videos unto one hard drive. To export, it takes like 4-5 hours — we have 67 videos. We’re using our friend’s work and his 10 computers to get them all ready (keep in mind, this has to be received in another country [HINT] by Tuesday) and today was the day we were gonna be done with them.

Here’s our little problem: One of the hard drives broke. No one can pick them up. Our friend who’s letting us use his work is leaving for the weekend (we need this mailed Saturday) and it’s increasingly hard for anyone with technical know-how (not me) to get to the office.

Why would the HD break? I don’t know. Why is everyone I know suddenly the busiest they’ve ever been? I’m not sure. But, that’s the luck of the filmmaker. Either you get lucky and snag a cowboy town, or your hard drives break for no real reason at the very moment you need them most. It’s like how printers will work for years… until your final is due — then, all of a sudden, there’s some kind of error you’ve never heard before and every Kinkos employee is on strike.

So, in about an hour, I’m going to head to San Rafael — an hour bus ride from my house — to try and grab the HD, as our friend is currently consolidating the vids all by himself (while also doing the work he actually has to do for his company). The idea is that it’ll all be done and none of the files will be corrupted or broken…

…except, if you’re a filmmaker, you’ll know that they’ll be both. And the building will be on fire. And the hard drive will be allergic to my Jewish fingers.

Fun day!

-New thing! I just found out we may have gotten a quick shooting gig for a company… except we’d have to do it this weekend — along with checking 60 continuity scripts, mailing the hard drive and finishing the Twitter videos.

Oh, one final note — it’s been officially announced, I’m going to be writing a few episodes for the show, TEMP LIFE — some more details here: http://news.tubefilter.tv/2009/09/10/spherion-backed-temp-life-re-staffs-for-new-season/

Okay, I’m not sure if this blog makes any sense or is well-written at all but that’s your update for today. I’ll let you know how it all goes sometime… soon.

In the meantime, wish me luck and hope that I survive this weekend!

Thanks, guys!