Yet Another Hold My Beer Status Update

Fair warning: you might be seeing a lot of these Hold My Beer status update posts (mixed in with, of course, Volume Seven and Album Four status updates) in the coming weeks and months. If you need to catch up, check out these previous posts from March 9 and March 16.

Tonikaku ("anyway"), it appears that the project is moving ahead full steam, at least for now. The application window for the grant from the Vancouver Culture, Arts & Heritage commission is open, and I and the guys from Second Player Score are hard at work trying to line up all our ducks - and boy, there are a lot of ducks to line up when you're putting together what is basically an independent film project! For the grant application, we have to come up with an itemized budget, which we kind of knew we would have to do anyway, but now we really actually have to do it, which is a good thing.

This being our first real film project, we're also working on figuring out exactly what we need in terms of cast, crew, locations, and so forth. Who knew that so much went into making a film, even a short one? Well, we did, sort of. I mean, for years I've always marveled at the closing credits of TV shows and movies, where it seems like gazillions of people are needed to produce even just a single two-hour film. And now we're experiencing it first hand!

So basically I've turned to doing what I did when I first wanted to write a novel or a screenplay, and that's to learn how to actually do the thing I want to do. To that end, I've picked up a couple of books on filmmaking and have been watching a lot of YouTube videos. Yes, I've sort of dabbled in it before, even at one point buying and watching the Robert Rodriguez film school series, but now things are getting serious.

That's it for now, but like I said, there will be many more updates to come (hopefully). And if you are in the Vancouver/Portland area and would like to be a part of the project, let me know!