Animal Film limps into New Year
It sucks to post your very first blog telling of the worst of the worst case scenarios.
My film, FREE to a Good Home http://www.freetoagoodhomemovie.com, has had its technical difficulties and were are constantly standing by, but this one takes the New Year's cake. We finally received some finishing funds and had three months in an editing office we rented, whoohoo... only to find that two of those months were completely wasted because our hard drive went down.
I received word over the weekend from the tech guy, he cannot recover ANYTHING. We are still scrambling to find out if we managed to back up onto dvd. But that hard drive was our back up hard drive. Don't ask how it happened a series of unfortunate events.
This film WILL be finished this year.
So I spent the weekend working on redoing our website. It's still a mess, but at least improving... If anyone thinks indie filmmaking is easy... have them call me! But frankly I would not change this experience for anything. I learned so much, just wish it wasn't all through the school of hard knocks!
The only thing I would change is losing my pets. Other than that all was what it was supposed to be. But then I think if I did not lose my pets and everything else I wouldn't be in Venice Beach and I most likely wouldn't have Homer and Schlimie.
So, why is this little indie film taking so long? Editing is pure and simple torture and now I have to rewatch those hours of footage to relog into a new hard drive to redo those two months that were lost. My pets are all over that footage and going back there just is not all that much fun. I hope the evil way this year is starting out is a sign that the turn around is near. That another funder, or more funding comes our way.
All I wanted to do was make a little fictional feature film about a girl who does animal rescue, to help all the animals that need rescuing. Thanks for listening, reading and writing.
My film, FREE to a Good Home http://www.freetoagoodhomemovie.com, has had its technical difficulties and were are constantly standing by, but this one takes the New Year's cake. We finally received some finishing funds and had three months in an editing office we rented, whoohoo... only to find that two of those months were completely wasted because our hard drive went down.
I received word over the weekend from the tech guy, he cannot recover ANYTHING. We are still scrambling to find out if we managed to back up onto dvd. But that hard drive was our back up hard drive. Don't ask how it happened a series of unfortunate events.
This film WILL be finished this year.
So I spent the weekend working on redoing our website. It's still a mess, but at least improving... If anyone thinks indie filmmaking is easy... have them call me! But frankly I would not change this experience for anything. I learned so much, just wish it wasn't all through the school of hard knocks!
The only thing I would change is losing my pets. Other than that all was what it was supposed to be. But then I think if I did not lose my pets and everything else I wouldn't be in Venice Beach and I most likely wouldn't have Homer and Schlimie.
So, why is this little indie film taking so long? Editing is pure and simple torture and now I have to rewatch those hours of footage to relog into a new hard drive to redo those two months that were lost. My pets are all over that footage and going back there just is not all that much fun. I hope the evil way this year is starting out is a sign that the turn around is near. That another funder, or more funding comes our way.
All I wanted to do was make a little fictional feature film about a girl who does animal rescue, to help all the animals that need rescuing. Thanks for listening, reading and writing.
1 Comments:
Hi! I just saw your comment on my blog and I came to see yours. I can't wait to see your movie, animal rescue is a cause dear to my heart. I do volunteer translation for various groups here, and I support them financially (as well as my means allow me to).
My 10 yo cat died in December 2004, I know how hard it is to lose a pet. :(
A good thing that came out of this was that I adopted Oscar, a big orange boy, from the local SPCA, and then I thought "I have room for more", so I ended up adopting two more from the Animal Rescue Network (www.animalrescuenetwork.org). I never regretted it, they are all such wonderful cats!
Did you read the book "One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter"? It heart-wrenching, but I really recommend it. I bought several copies from http://www.novoiceunheard.org/ and gave some to a local library and to the ARN for their fundraising yard sales.
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