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Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all! I can’t believe how quickly this years has gone by. Cup of Joe, and 7 episodes of 1-800-Tech-Support. I think that’s the most I’ve done in a year. 2009 should be interesting. My goal is 2 features and another season of 1-800, but right now I’m taking a three week break from filming. I have a lot of post production stuff to do. I really need to get an assistant. LOL Another 1-800 Teaser should be on it’s way along with a Trailer.

Till then, Happy Holidays everyone and have a safe New Year.

Last Thursday I went to Andy Miller’s Film Salon. It were the local filmmakers of San Antonio get together and show off their works in progress. The turnout was kind of low but I had a good time. It’s been a while since I had a chance to catch up with Andy. He is working on a new short film starting in December. I think it’s been a year since he has done anything. I finally had the opportunity to meet Wes Barlow of Park Creek. Mister Pete showed up and long with Carlos Pina. Meet showed off an animated intro piece for one of Wes’s short films. The rest of us had nothing. I would of brought something but I didn’t have the time to throw anything together. At around 9PM we all went our separate ways.

Saturday, Sunday and Monday night were all dedicated to filming 1-800-Tech-Support. It was a very stressful weekend but I got a lot done. Episode 4 is wrapped finally. I think I started it 3 months ago. Sometimes it is a real pain in the ass to get a lot of people together to shoot one episode ugh. I’ve made the painful decision to cut episode 8 because it requires so much of the cast to be present. December is going to be the last intense moth of filming 1-800. This should wrap episodes 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12. It sounds like a lot but I have most of 10 along with parts of 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 done.

Next weekend is going to be the Third Annual 48 Hour Film Challenge in San Antonio. This year I’m not going to be able to participate. Sorry Drew. I have to much shit going on with 1-800-Tech-Support. Plus I haven’t seen my wife much lately and she would appreciated if I spent so more time with here. I don’t blame here I haven’t been around much lately and I would like to remain married.

I’ve been slacking.

I’ve finally come up with a title for my Penny Dreadful film. It’s going to be called “Dreams of the Simulacrum”. The idea has been floating around in my head for a while. I want to start working on the treatment this evening in between stuff for 1-800-Tech-Support. I’m looking to begin pre-production after season 1 of 1-800 is wrapped. Hopefully that mean I’ll have a script is some kind of rough format.

Speaking of 1-800-Tech-Support, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged about it. Thing have been going remarkably well lately. The project has had a bit of a rough start but things have improved. All 12 scripts are written and we are in the progress of filming episode 5. This Saturday I’m looking at wrapping episode 4. Cross your fingers. I’m still a ways away from complete the editing for episode 1 so I need to get my ass in gear.

I’ve decided that I’m going to be releasing the second teaser on either Monday or Tuesday of next week. Initially wanted to release them 2 weeks apart but decided against it. The trailer is going to be pushed ton November and I want to start creating a buzz. Charnell said she planning on blogging about the teaser so hopefully that will generate more traffic.

So after several weeks of wondering what I was going to do, I came up with this.

I figured it was time for an update on 1-800-Tech-Support. Things are going. Not as smoothly as I would like but we are making progress. Between scheduling delays and construction at the office, filming has been lets say interesting. Principle photography has been completed for Episode 1 and Episode 2 is near completion. Last night we started on Episode 4 and should have that one in the can in Oct along with Episode 3. Between Cup of Joe and 1-800-Tech-Support, this is going to be a long filming weekend.

Monday Sept 8th was the first official shooting day for the show. It continued Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. It was a hell of a long week, but Ep1 is 90% complete and Ep2 is about 75% done.

I have to give my cast some major kudos. They are a hell of a team. On Monday I was watching the dailies while capture the footage and I was laughing my ass off. Whitney is an incredible actor. She has dived into the role of Erica and has made it her own. Matthew is another one of my star players. I have known Matthew for many years and he has come a long way as an actor. From hitman to goth fearing geek it is always a pleasure working with him. Now Christian, well that’s another story… LOL Just kidding. This is the 3rd project I’ve worked with him on. From his performance to his on set antics, I always enjoy working with him.

Great job guys! Hopefully by the end of the series you guys won’t want me dead. LOL

But this time it’s for 1-800-Tech-Support! It has been a long long day, but it was worth it. We managed to knock out all of the Tom and Joel scenes for Episode 1. The adventure continues on Thursday.