Screening soon

Plans are in the works for the first screening of the film. It will be in Orlando at the beautiful Enzian theater. I will be announcing the date really soon.

I was finishing up the DVDs over the weekend and making copies. I was working with my three month old son in one arm. It's funny that my wife Kris wasn't even pregnant when I started this film, and now I'm finishing the film with the newest member of the crew sitting on my lap. Maybe that's not a big deal to anyone else, but I thought it was cool.

Just some glitches

Well Joe and I finished mixing down all the sound last night. As always it took longer then I expected, however it sounds really good. Joe did an excellent job cleaning up some really rough audio. He says he could have done better with a little more time but as it turns out . . we are all a little low on time right now.

The only thing left for me to do is fix some glitches in the video. For those of you that don't know, back in March the hard drive I was working from malfunctioned just as I was about to lock the picture. There was a time there, where I thought I lost everything. Thanks to Data Doctors and my personal financial angel who said "I won't let this film die", I was able to retrieve the data.

Not without a few glitches it appears. Every few minutes in the film there will be ONE frame that has a tiny white box that just appears. They are really hard to see, but as my fellow filmmakers can understand, they drive me crazy. As we were mixing last night I noticed five more of those little bastards. Once I have time to sit down and fix those I'm done. Boy, if anyone told me making a feature film would have been this tough, maybe I would have decided on a career in plastics.

Never blogged

Alright I've never blogged before. In fact I'll admit that I always thought that people who kept blogs who didn't have any kind of notoriety were a bit presumptuous and self serving. However it's been suggested to me that as the director of an independent feature film, I should have a blog. So here goes.

Maybe I'm starting this a little late because the film is just about finished. We are just mixing down the audio and trying to clean up what we can. But for the most part it's done. And for anyone who doesn't know (which is probably most reading this) I started developing this film in the summer of 2007. So it's been a long road. And I have to say that the film is turning out better then I hoped.

One thing that really makes me sad however is that one of my oldest friends and my old band mate Sam Latini will not be here to see the finished project. Sammy is a big part of this film and I know he was really exited about seeing it. Sadly Sam passed away last month at the age of 39. He will be missed.