The Process

Hello again. I've just come home after spending a few very productive hours with our editor shaping what will be the final cut of our teaser trailer. By this time tomorrow, it should be up and ready for viewing. After viewing the first, rough cut this afternoon, I was honestly a bit let down by how it seemed to be coming together. But then I reminded myself that filmmaking is a long and involved process with many stop along the way, all leading to one ultimate destination. A rough cut is like the first draft of a story: the basic elements are there, just not necessarily in the right order or length. Trim a few seconds off of a scene here, use a piece of a different take to amp up the energy there, lay in a music track and some more polished titles and, before you know it, you've got something really special that you can be proud to show people. I've said before that making this project a reality has been one great long lesson in the benefits of collaboration, so I might as well say it again. Actors, producers, cinematographers, production designers and me, the naive Reno kid who had the temerity to think he could write and direct something at all, have come together to make a unique statement about the human condition in this big, baffling, post-modern world of ours. And we are about to put a little slice of it out there for all to see. While recognizing that there are many, many more miles left on the journey ahead, right now I'm happy and proud to see how far we've already come.