The Perils Of Being An Independent Filmmaker

After moving the short film project from ‘non-existent’ to ‘officially live’, I can say that nothing much has changed since then. Having to juggle up to ten people’s schedules is minuscule compared to that of the near 50 we had for Liink and Zellda and yet for some reason this is proving difficult. It’s nothing I haven’t faced before, but it seems time to pull out the big guns and simply make decisions to get the process moving – whether people like them or not. Unfortunately, that’s when you turn into the bad guy *sigh*.

Casting, budgets, time-frames, locations, costumes and props; all stuff to take into consideration. I’m happy to admit that 4/6 of those things have been taken care of in a very short space of time. And, nothing happens or gets done without them all working in harmony. I’m too close to getting this done to even think about scrapping it – so that’s not even an option right now.

It’s not all gloom and doom, though. A few have committed all their energies to helping out wherever they can – and for this I am glad. I’m still looking for costumes and making last minute changes to the script, but nothing that can’t be dealt with. Shooting is now looking like it’s going to happen in the last week of February and I’ll conserve my excitement for those days.

Gods, that reminds me; need to get better hosting for our Foolhardy website. Bah.

EDIT: Shooting has now been postponed until further notice.


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