Dark Design Pictures

Today I played hooky from work. Actually I was given the day off to edit a project for Peer 1. Some of my co-workers were involved in the 24 Hours of LeMons race. Not going to explain so click the link. Charnell my co-worker flew out and filmed it with her mini camcorder. I do have to say the footage turned out rather nice. So I have till Friday to cut everything together. I should have everything wrapped up tomorrow night. Right now I’m waiting on some footage to render out. Normally this doesn’t take long, but the guy who got me the footage used some kind of funky encoding. I would rather be sleeping right now I can assure you. So I took the time to do some editing of episode 5 of 1-800-Tech-Support and listen to some Peter Murphey. It’s been a long day and tomorrow will be just as long.

-UPDATE-
Thanks god it worked. Now I can go to bed.

Last night I finished my rewrites of episodes 1 thru 4. Tonight I spent a good amount of time going over Ep 5. There were are few things I had to fix. Over all the script is pretty solid. Once all of the scripts have been written I will post an episode guide for season 1 on the 1800-Tech-Support web site.

Over last week Matthew and I have been working episodes 2-5. Things are coming along rather nicely. Last night I spent a good a mount of time going over Ep 2, 3 and 4 making revisions. I finally had to stop myself after midnight. I should be done with my changes to ep 5 by tonight.

On a side note. I registered the domain for 1800techsupport.net as well as a MySpace page. Both sites are rather barren but there will be more to come.

Last week I had to cancel the first shooting day for 1-800-Tech-Support. The wife had some family in town and she really wanted me to be there. So I decided to put off shooting till the middle of next month when I get back from Hawaii. There is still tons of stuff to do for Cup of Joe and then there is the 48HR Film Project the weekend of the 8th. So the delay is kind of welcome for several reasons. I want to finish script 2, I want to finish pay Greenberg for his track dolly and I really want to have everything planned out (storyboards, shot logs, etc). I was wanting to start releasing the episodes by September but I think I’m going to hold off until January of next year. I really want to promote the hell out of the show. So hopefully by then I will have the first 6 episodes completed.

Tonight I met up with Christian at Jasso’s place for a read through of Episode 1. I am very pleased with the performance and it’s going to be killer funny! After the 3rd read through and give the guys some direction, both Matthew and Christine were really beginning to get into there roles. The part of Joel will be a little different than the original Night Shift, but it is more of what I had in mind for the character when I created him.

Joel is a sarcastic ass. He has no ambition, no drive and not future. Joel is not apathetic he just doesn’t care. He does tech support because it is easy and it allows him to be a slacker. It was hard to get that though in the Night Shift, but comes out a bit when Joel is dealing with the vampire hunters. Christine got the point and took it to hear and started to really get into the character. I didn’t need to give Matthew as much direction. We’ve talked about the character of Tom quite a bit before the read through.

Tom simply is a geek. He has poor social skills, is smart and apathetic. He could do better in life but chooses not to. The reality is he doesn’t have to work hard because he comes from a well off family. We start filming next Wednesday and I’m pretty excited.

Okay it have been forever and a day since the last post. Yes I am a lousy blogger, but I haven’t had much to write about lately. After being harassed by veriest people. I’ve finally posted all the videos back in the Filmography. I know, about damn time! So it’s done. I’ve also added to the default page my links to MySpace and YouTube and to top it all off I’ve added a link to my personal MySpace.

Oh yeah, San Antonio 48 Hour Film Project 2008, that is the title of this post after all. Well it’s getting to be that time of year again. Yes, once again I’m signing up and shelling out the $135.00 for the privilege of making a short film. lol And like last year, I’ll be teaming up with Matthew Jasso. Who does what remains to be seen, so we shall see how it goes. Tonight was the first meet up at Ruta Maya. It was very nice. Turn out was a little low, but fun. For the next few weeks every Tuesday the group will be meeting until the the night of the big event. The meet up was good and I had fun. Great networking opportunity. I met some new people and ran into some other team leaders from last year. Once again Erik Bosse is spearheading this event.

I’ll go into more details later. My brain has officially turned into mush and I need to get some sleep.