YIKES!!!!

It has been a few days since I posted here. But that's okay. Not posting here the past couple of days has allowed for some meaningfull editing to get done, three great in-person auditions held, contact with a couple of camera people and their references, contacting several local buisness' about using their premises for a couple of scenes that I would rather not delete if possible, and reviewing several video submissions for various roles. The hardest part of making this film is yet to come. And yet the hardest part is the part that I am looking forward to the most!

I already know that the process of deciding who to cast and who not to cast will be hard. After all I have seen so much talent since I made the decision to make this film. I keep wondering if I am going to make the right choices on who to cast. I'm sure that I will make good choices on who to cast, but it is a daunting process.

I have already had contact with Dow Gardens (in Midland). I am glad to say that I will be shooting part of the film in Dow Gardens. I am definatly looking forward to filming that section of the film simply because of the natural beauty that will help make the outdoor scenes so beautiful.

Back to the editing and contemplating who to cast. Hopefully everyone has (or has had) a good day (depending on where you are in the world).

"Unlimited, together we're unlimited, together we'll be the greatest team theres ever been..." "Defying Gravity" from the hit musical "Wicked"

Scheduling

Scheduling can be the darnedest thing. Minus the hour I was gone playing the piano at a local senior home, I have been attempting to schedule auditions with various actors that have shown interest in this film. It isn't that easy to schedule auditions with all the meetings I have with costuming, the time I am spending scouting out the last few locations, and the meetings I have with a couple of places about catering.

Casting and raising funds

Oh the joys of casting and coming up with funding for a film at the same time!

This week I auditioned three people in person, and got video auditions from another three people who couldn't make it into Midland for auditions. It was an adventure auditioning people on Wednesday. I had originally planned on holding the auditions at Dow Gardens, and early in the day I was actually able to do that. But by mid-day I was contacting people letting them know that because of bad weather, we would be doing auditions in the Cup and Chaucer in the Grace A Dow Memorial Library (Midland, MI). I must say that there is some great talent out there that I have connected with, and I am sure that there is some great talent that is out there that I haven't had contact with and need to find.

Meanwhile I have been in contact with several companies/business' to get funding for this film so that it will be possible to house actors and crew from outside of the Midland/Bay City/Saginaw area, feed the cast and crew, and pay for the transportation of cast and crew to and from the set. If anyone would like to help out in any way with this film feel free to contact me at any time at homethemove@ymail.com.

Let the chaos begin!

I've been thinking about various ways to keep people updated on what is going on with an independent film that I am in pre-production for. And a blog seemed like the perfect place to begin. Hopefully I'll be good about regularly posting updates on what is going on with pre-production, production, post production, and film festivals we go to.

As you can probobly tell, I have a page with basic information on the characters in this film, and anouther page with basic information about the film.