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.
posted by Travis Thomsen at 9:11 pm
It’s official, some body needs to shoot Tim Burton. He made the Mad Hatter look like a douche clown. Dare I say Ronald McDonald? Or better yet, Eric Draven and Carrot Top had a lovechild. I have a lot of HATE for Hollywood right now. Sorry I need to correct myself. It’s more like Ziggy Stardust and Carrot Top’s unwanted lovechild. I’m a little slow on the draw today.
posted by Travis Thomsen at 10:55 am
I just watched the trailer for J.J. Abrams rendition of Star Trek. All I have to say is Holly Shit, that was awesome!! I hope it live up to the trailer.
posted by Travis Thomsen at 8:19 pm
Saturday was kind of nuts’o. I was hoping to get everything done for episode 4, but as usual something went wrong. Christian was out sick and I had no idea. Turns out he tried calling me Saturday morning but I failed to see that he left a message. And to add insult to injury his was turned off. I got as much as I could. Still a few more scenes to go but it looks like I won’t be able to get everyone back at one location till the 30th. Hmm maybe I can get it done this weekend. It will either be ep 4 or 5 that gets done. lol
posted by Travis Thomsen at 10:33 am
posted by Travis Thomsen at 10:54 am
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.
posted by Travis Thomsen at 10:52 am