Work on "El Caffinato" continues (but nothing we can share publicly yet), as does post-production for "The Hole in Their Day" - it turns out the less time you spend in pre-production, the longer you spend in post: we spent about four days in pre-production for that one; to paraphrase David Foster Wallace, it seemed like fun, but we'll never do that again. Since there's not much to say or share about either of those just now, we thought we'd give a very advance preview of a third project currently in development:
What: "Two Guns For Greta," a 20 minute film noir about a community theater production of a play by the same name. Replete with a slightly hapless detective, a charming but potentially dangerous femme, and a diabolical crime boss (er... theater director).
In development? So far, "Two Guns for Greta" exists as a handwritten outline on a few sheets of paper and a handful of images in our heads. We'll turn to scripting it fully as soon as "El Caffinato" is shot, and we have a half-dream of shooting it sometime in the winter.
It's funny how details fall into place differently for every project. The music for "El Caffinato" was written in just two days, but we've got lots to do before we're ready to shooot. "The Hole in Their Day" is completely finished, but the right music just won't present itself. "Two Guns for Greta" is not even written yet, but we have a pretty set notion of where we'll shoot it, and we have pretty clear ideas about how to light it. If only our projects would get together and swap hang-ups, then we'd have at least one film that sailed through without a hitch and a few that we could just ditch.
Then again, assuming these problems do work out, we end up with three films and not one. As usual, life seems pretty OK if you think about it long enough.
