Kickstarter!

Kickstarter is this amazing new tool where diverse people can pool their resources, and make a larger creative effort happen. It's my turn up to the bat now. Here's a link to the Kickstarter page of my Greek dance epic, Pentozali.

Putting the Annually in Semi-Annually

It's been two years. How y'all done been?

::cough::

Hope my readers, of which there are oh, none, have been great. We've had a lot of activity here, finding lots of odd video projects to keep us busy in between modeling jaunty screenwriting hats.

More to come, but for now a selection of the work we've been doing for Howcast, which will be updated on a regular basis:

I Hate You (For Sedimental Reasons)

So, at the old day job, we had what's most lovingly termed a "team-bonding" session. In this case, it was canoeing a 13 mile loop around the coffee-tinted Harpeth River. I try to beg off the work-related functions - I have enough to do with the videography company, screenwriting, and classical guitar lessons. It's a distraction for work that's decidedly NOT my career - but it was something I hadn't done before and I was intrigued. (We're not counting the 30-person canoe at Disneyland way back in the 80s, which was lovely fun, truth be told.)

So, frak and ahoy, went ahead with it. Much bonding was had. Mainly, my knees bonding with the rocky bottoms of the river. What I knew intellectually was this: we've had a severe shortfall of rain the last year or so, and a lot of the local waterways are a kind of Bosco slurry. I didn't connect that large portions of this river would be unnavigable because the dry conditions. My boat partner and I kept getting stuck on gravel, and I had a hard time getting my balance after we'd walk the canoe through. We'd push along, and somewhere along the line, bam! My knee - either one, take your pick - would slam down, twist, crackle, pop, and other weird cereal noises.

When there was water, it was actually a good deal of communing-with-nature fun, but man...I can barely walk today, both legs are scraped to above the knee, my hips hurt, I'm cramping in my calves and thighs, and I have a cherry bruise on my ass the shape of Utah.

But yay! Still fun. In a way. Sorta.

Watched all of Angels in America with darling Heather this weekend. I think it's one of the best balanced play adaptations I've ever seen - full of stage artifacts, monologues, hyperintellectualizing, yet somehow organic and cinematic and seamless. Bravo Kushner.

I was reminded how much I'd flipped for Justin Kirk in the lead role. I'm still trying to put together the short film of "Diary of a Mad Deity" that I got the okay to do more than a year ago. I decided that I'm going to submit the SAG indie producer's agreement - they have a new, great one for no-budget short films - and try to approach him for it. I can't imagine that he would even agree, but what a vibrant, self-mocking, truthful quality he would bring to the piece.

The big page one rewrite of Pentozali moves along steadily...broke page 32 and felt like I got some good drama lodged in there. Feel like I've finally got the focus that completely eluded me for the last five drafts. Whee!

Weltingly yours,
The Purple Rose of Tennessee

The Turkey Lies Down on Broadway

I was contemplating a longish post on the horrors of research, and my unnerving tendency to write projects entirely out of my sphere of education/knowledge/even very casual acquaintance. The upside about being curious about nearly everything is that you have a limitless supply of subject matter, and you walk away with an endless supply of utterly irrelevant trivia.

The downside is that you wind up spending years researching the fuckers. I'm reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to prep me for a project about, mmm, three screenplays from now. The abridged version of it runs 1600 pages. That doesn't leave a lot of time for hobbies. (But yes, it leaves some...anyone else obsessed with Gears of War? Bueller? Bueller?)

Anyhoo, that was gonna be my essay du jour, but I'll spare everyone the pain. The turkey begged me off, and what the hell. I can't turn down the request of a beast flopping around without a noggin. Especially when I just pounded the shit out of it with cornbread.

I apologize for nothing.

I do want to get this right, though. This is the first time I've done a Thanksgiving feast for New Wife Heather (tm), and even more than not wanting her to contract a pissy case of salmonella, I want her to actually enjoy the bird. Maybe she'll let me have some pie.

On that note, I'm off to do start the overnight slow cooking. Happy American Land Theft Day, everyone!

Stuffing secret of the day: pine nuts.

So.

A few updates are in order.

It's been an freakishly active year for me, and not only because of a little thing like getting all hitched up to an amazing woman whom the natives call Heather Kamins. (Yes, the rumors are true. Sorry ladies? Gents? Paramecium?)

I've been spending an inordinate time editing and reediting a wedding video I shot for a good friend way back in May. Working at my normal turtleish blitzkrieg, I'm finally at the end of that particular tunnel. There's some good stuff coming. You can see samples soon at http://www.infinite-moment.com.

And yes, still working the day job. I haven't clawed my eyes out yet, and things are better. Good thing. I'd suck at Braille.

But as always, my eye remains on the Big Ol' Ball. The career. Three matters of importance are in motion.

1) Cosmodrome. I finished it. And it's almost 180 pages. BUT. I think it has some of my best writing yet. As always, it could use approximately 10 to the 4600th power revisions, but I think it's a very solid piece of work. My only self-complaint is that the stuff that's inordinately ambitious, the ones I research for eons and pour my lymph nodes into...they're genuinely epic. Maybe it's the 2001/The Right Stuff influence, but it's what I connect to the most. I trim the fat out of the weasels, I promise you, but they're still packed.

Too bad I'd be a really inept novelist. Don't have the flair, kids.

The practical downside of this aside is that it's hard to get reads on Zoetrope, friends and family have to carve out a year to read even half of it, and most pressingly, I can't get anywhere near a screenwriting competition. See: conundrum.

2) dayjob. Is this the solution to the above problem? Right off the bat, I'm aiming dead at 120 pages. If I get within 10 pages of that, I'll be a mighty happy clam. I'm going for fun, fun, fun with my little tale of love between a Europol inspector and an art thief, and I have to say, my writing is kinda sprightly and snappy. And I do love writing a good action sequence.

(They say you should try brevity for action sequences, as the director is gonna impose his own vision. Fuck that. I see myself as the choreographer. The director, whoever, yeah, I respect the traffic-cop vision that they bring to each piece. I want to be that director as much as a writer. But in a musical, they are as subordinate to the choreographer's specificity as the dancers. And I believe the same thing is true for writing sequences of physical action. In other words, bite me.)

3) Diary of a Mad Deity. This is the newest project since the last time I updated this blog. It's based on a short story by James Morrow, who very kindly gave me permission to attempt my own low-rent adaptation. I'm extremely proud of the 26-page script I whipped out - which I hope is both faithful to the beautifully cleverish source material, and visual as hell.

If everything goes perfect, I may be shooting this with my Canon XL-H1s in late winter. I'm working on a surprising casting choice. We'll see what happens. If I can conquer the effects quandary, I'll be swimming in duck soup. Technically speaking.

And oh yeah, wrote the first page of Pax Galaxia and submitted it to the Page One Screenwriting Competition. Keep your pinkies crossed.

I have a few more bonnets in my basket, but that's enough for now, I reckon. Need to get back to my big computer and finish off some diagnostics. The Radeon X800 video card utterly failed, and I was up late, late, late plugging in a monster GeForce 8800 GTS, which leaves me set for Vista. (I had really wanted to forego any updates until new 8 core Mac Pros with HD/Blu-Ray burners hit the market. My plan was - WAS - to sell the existing G5 and the XPS, and put the money towards that handy behemoth. But I need the XPS too much right now, as a lot of my high-end software is tied to it.)

Bastingly,
Dimitri

Cannnnnnnnnnn he do it? Can he finish his new script before the end of the year? Can he keep it under 160 pages? Should he have a frontal lobe removed for posterity?

Stay tuned, bat-fans...

So, the MomentFuture saga has completed its cycle at last. Post-mortem, am I pleased by the final results? Mostly. A billion things I could've done different, much different. But I can't really second guess it, except for learning that (once again) I need a good, talented sound recordist to be my gun on these things. I love sound and dynamics, but when it comes to the technical aspects of actually capturing sounds, I'm clueless. Bleh.

At any rate, work continues on the screenplays for dayjob and Kosmodrome. I expect I'll be writing a bit more about these projects in the future. Keep tuned. I think they're muy exciting, and for a change? Almost fun.

Yeah, right.

Bon soir,
Dimitri

Chicken's Done.

Yes folks, I mean it, the film is a-wrapped a-rooney. I've sent everyone a note letting them know my plans for getting them their yummy and oh-so-so-shiny DVD platters, as well as the future plans for our wee endeavor.

It's been fun. Stay tuned.

Your Chief Oompa-Loompa,
Dimitri

Well, hi kids. Long time no blog.

So, it's almost Thanksgiving. Are you done yet? And why aren't you calling/e-mailing/smoke-signalling me back?

Wellll, I've been busy as hell, I'm afraid, and except for my screenwriting, my life has slowed to an amoeba's crawl. (That's slow, brothers and sisters.)

But anyway, here's where we stand. The visual cut is done, finished, complete. I'm pretty happy with it now, though I re-edited the film six times. I'm still a perfectionist, I should've re-edited another six, but I think I can live with it, especially with the limitations of the ridiculously complicated shoot I threw upon all of you. (Thanks for that, BTW.)

So, in the little time I have to work on the film now, I'm working on the sound pass, which I'm going to leave a bit minimalistic but evocative. I'm hoping to tell the story as much through soundtrack dynamics as through chirpy happy birdies in park scenes.

No, I'm not actively seeking the composer yet. (The Bay Area composer I mentioned before is very talented, but was simply too busy to work this into his schedule. Oh well.) But I intend to have the full piece done and in your hands in time for a nice Santy Claus project.

Yeah, I love you too.

Circumspectly yours,
Dimitri

Hey Dimitri, are you frigging done yet?

Working on it, working on it...in the midst of the insanely, insanely, insanely difficult scene 13 right now. It's four times as long as any scene in the film and has literally ten times the cuts. Crrrrrazzzy.

I'm talking with a noted Bay Area ambient musician on scoring our little masterpiece, but I don't want to say too much before it happens. You all will, of course, be the first to know...

Timelessly (as in, losing track of time),

Dimitri

Gosh Dimitri, where the blankety-blank have you been? Ignoring us? That figures, big shot.

No, no, no, I'm wounded! What I've actually been doing is - after a proper week of losing my mind and other recreational cooling-down - starting to put together the rough cut of this mother. It's an interesting process, because no matter what you see on the set, or even viewing the footage the first couple of times, it's all irrelevant once you have to actually put the puzzle together. Performances that are wonderful suddenly don't fit because the movements in one shot another you'd be cutting to. Or the dialogue is just different enough to cause transition problems. Or that genius facial expression you see in one shot leads into an entirely different and unusable genius facial expression. Or you got the fucking lights in that shot. Yes folks, it's all about the creativity.

But one trudges on and finds the gems all of you have provided, and just as importantly, the choices that will form the backbone of the film's momentum. Thanks to your professionalism, it's going well, I'm finding my cuts and moving the story along. My technique is a little random; I don't like to edit in sequence. I much prefer to work on scenes as I'm feeling the spirit move me. With that in mind, the first scene I did was scene 12, the massive kitchen blow-up, and I finished the visual cut last night. It turned out pretty well; of course, it'll need sound and especially music to sell it to an audience, but the passion was there and I appreciate it.

I've moved on to the movie theater sequences, scenes 2-4. I should have those done in a few days. What's really cool about those scenes is I get to use my post-production toolkit with abandon. For instance, all the scenes have now been darkened and had a realistic movie flicker glow from the screen that didn't actually exist on Day One. So many little things that were impossible to do a few years ago, it's barely a second thought now. Amazing.

So, you may be wondering about the technical stuff (or: Where Did Dimitri Blow It?). Well, I think we got very lucky as far as the visuals were concerned; I may need one or two inserts from the cast, but most of the reshooting will actually be pick-up shots; the mobile, better shots of the tickets, things where I'll run off by myself with a camera and polish off. I'll also spend an afternoon or two collecting appropriate sound effects. Sound is a little dicier, but for the most part, I think I can use what we got, with a couple of exceptions, chiefly involving the car scene we shot on the last Sunday. I hate glare, don't you? Otherwise, I think you're free of the Dimitri-pest.

But anyway...it's all dandy and moving ahead, far enough along that I can contemplate my next steps. When I'm not editing, I'm spending my free time writing - either my current feature, or more short subjects. I'm writing a piece called Kismet Kate, and I've expanded my next short Consequences of Falling by a couple of roles, which some of you are already involved in. Yes, I'm trying to get as many of you involved in my future projects as possible. You all blew me away. You'll be hearing from me.

I'm getting ahead of myself. I hope you're all doing great, and I hope we can get together some night for dinner or a movie night out or something. I cherish all of you.

Saucily,
Dimitri

Yum yum! Anyone up for some hot new pics of the final weekend's shoot, straight off the griddle?















Your editor-in-chief,

Dimitri

Before I get too mushy and sentimental, I have something fairly cool to show you...anyone wanna see the poster?

MomentFuture poster

Ciao baby,
Dimitri

Well, hope you all got my messages last night, but if not, to reiterate: today at Abigail's house, 9 to 4, and then off to Hamilton Creek Marina at Percy Priest Lake (for those of you who will be involved in the driving shots). Please bring costumes for the kitchen, decoupage, first bedroom and (just in case) the driving scene (which will be whatever you were for the movie theater/city street scene.

Somnescently yours,
Dimitri

Okay folks, forecast is SERIOUSLY mixed for the morning, could have T-storms, at the least lots of heavy clouds. So this is the backup plan as it stands now for Saturday:

Saturday morning, 10 AM. Meet at Abigail's house. We will proceed to shoot the kitchen and the decoupage scenes. Then about 4 PM or so, Robert, Demetriss and some of the crew will head to our lakeside location to shoot the driving scenes. You will probably have about two hours to rest and prep for the bedroom scene, so you may want to take your meal break, prepare, or leave until the next call at 7:30 PM Saturday evening will then proceed as scheduled.

I will let you know more as the weather schedule permits. Please expect a phone call from me tonight.

Thunderously (and lighningish too),
Dimitri

Okay, here we goooooooo, one more tiiiiime...

This weekend's shoot will be as follows:

Saturday morning (Robert and Demetriss) at Percy Priest Lake. 10 AM-1 PM. Scene 4, Sylvie and Steven drive by a body of water. I will give directions personally tomorrow; however, be aware that the forecast is for RAIN. Rain, I say. I expect anti-rain chants from each and every one of you and there will be a quiz.

Saturday afternoon/evening, 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM. (Robert, Demetriss, Abigail, Tabitha, Monica and Elle) This will take place at Abigail's very lovely house in Murfreesboro, and will consist of the kitchen scene and the decoupage scene in the afternoon, pickup shots for the four women in the driving scene, and in the evening, the first bedroom scene.

Sunday morning, 10:00 AM to 1 PM. (Robert, Rachael and Patrick) Our final scene of the production, and our return to our favorite street in Franklin. Our intrepid cast drives and discusses everything that's happened in Robert's crazy little mind today, and out of the blender comes something, um, reassuring and uplifting. Yay! Cookies for everyone!

I hope you're all ready for this, our biggest weekend of the production, the humdinger, the swing for the fences, the humunga cowabunga from down unda... I'm so proud of all of you and look forward to wrapping this sucker up with a pretty bow. Yep.

Your president of the Lola Falana Fan Club,
Dimitri

You cats rock my world, you know that? Every nutty scene and circumstance I've thrown at you, you've responded with professionalism and talent, and even when we're running behind - and I know, seems like we're always running behind - the mood is happy and pleasant and everything that I hope a set can be. We're doing an incredibly difficult thing with the Steven/Syvlie scenes, which is essentially, shooting five movies at once...but none of you have been anything but completely enthusiastic. Thanks.

Yesterday was probably our smoothest day yet all around, with everyone pitching in to get the job done, performances on mark, and the technical stuff turning out better than expected. Next week will bring principal photography to a close, and while I'll be sad to break up the production, you've already given me amazing gifts of your time and new memories. But first...we have to get through Saturday. :)

Saturday will be THE monster day of production, with massive technical and emotional challenges. We start off with the scene in Sylvie's car, move onto the decoupage scene (the requirements of which I will be discussing with Lorie and Demetriss tomorrow), spend time on the emotionally harrowing kitchen breakup scene, and then climax the day with the first bedroom scene in Sylvie's apartment (with wonderful mobiles! High score on the groovy thank-o-meter to Rachael for providing a lovely one last week, and more are absolutely welcomed). Then Sunday, we finish the photography with the scene in Lacy's car, which may be shot back in Franklin, depending on whether or not we need a second lane for certain shots. As always, more details as the week goes by.

Now, as has become our little tradition, a glimpse of the footage from yesterday's shoot:





Your Captain Sunburn,
Dimitri

Drumroll maestro...



Get directions

We'll be shooting at Sevier Park from 9AM to 12 Noon. For those I haven't talked to yet, wear something that would be suitable for a nice but not too fancy picnic. That's it...you may want to bring sunscreen and/or bug repellant if you feel the need. That'll be it and see you there!

Forest Ranger Dimitri

Quick note from the house management: new script draft and shooting schedule has been posted. You know where to look, n'est ce-pas?

Watch this space for more groovy specificosity. Meanwhile, I have some more footage to play around with. I love this computer editing stuff!

Anal-retentively,
Dimitri

Wellllll...we are carefully monitoring the weather right now, and at this point, it looks like it's going to be 50/50 in terms of a chance of rain. I am going to play it safe and assume that it IS going to rain. For those of you scheduled to shoot - Robert, Demetriss, Abigail, Tabitha, Monica and Laura - please stay tuned the next day or so, most likely this evening. I am going to write out the veranda scene and replace it with a different scene that will be less dependent on location. I will apprise all of you of the locations by this evening or tomorrow morning.

(And yes, to answer your question, all of the women should know Sylvie's lines. :) I will consult with Lorie on any revised prop needs by tonight.)

Your friendly meteorologist,
Dimitri

Well, all the footage from our first days of shooting has now been safely digitized and placed in the Dimitri LaBarge Memorial Vault (tm) on my hard drive. I gave you a little taste from day one's shooting yesterday...now here's a little bit more from Sunday's shoot in lovely downtown Franklin (for which we could not have dreamed of better weather):




















Yours in Cinemascope,
Dimitri

What. a. day. It was quite a marathon for most of us, but we managed to tough through it and produce some fine scenes. Hope today's scenes prove at least as fun and successful!

But for now, the first photos from Scene 2:







Blearily but boldly,
Dimitri

Great news to all the patient crew and cast out there: we have finally secured a location for Saturday night's shooting. Hurray! The fabulous friend of the production Jennifer Hayes has graciously lent her house for shooting scenes 7 and 9 Saturday night (starting at 8 PM). The street address is:

7491 Stacy Drive, Bellevue, TN (there will be an amber light that says 108)

Exact driving directions will follow tonight and I will discuss with the participating cast tonight or tomorrow. Now, I know this location is out of the way for some of you, and it may be unfamiliar territory. Here's what I propose...if enough of you are interested, I can rent a minivan tonight and have it ready for cast and crew transporation for the weekend. In fact, due to the somewhat unknown status of parking in the Franklin area at this point, I'd be happy to ferry whoever would like to come to my house in the morning, and we could all just drive as a group. A thought, perhaps? Let me know.

How are you all feeling? Nervous, excited, chewing your nails? I hope you ALL have a great time tomorrow -- it's really a rare honor to get to do something we all love, and I hope you take away a marvelous experience and warm memories. Myself, I feel great and just hope I don't puke. :)

Your American Bandstand,
Dimitri

Well, long time no update, but you'll be relieved to know our time is being spent productively, making sure all the little production details are nailed down, checking all the critical (and not-so-critical) pieces of equipment, last minute scheduling changes and even location searches (and if anyone knows of a house with a dining room and bedroom that could be donated Saturday post-haste, why, don't hesitate to contact me)...

Anyway, thought I would give all of you a preview of our upcoming weekend's shooting by posting our official shot list. This is going to be an incredible weekend, as it combines both our most irreplaceable location on Saturday, with our single most complicated scene on Sunday. But it's all fun, right?? It's all available for your clickery-type convenience on the left sidebar.

I'm sure I will be talking to all of you multiple times in the next two days. Hope you're all getting psyched and thanks to all of you for being such an amazing cast and crew! I'm really honored to be doing this film with you. April 12th, here we come!!

Your frazzled ringmaster,
Dimitri

Thanks to all of you who've been incredibly patient waiting for the location of Sunday night's rehersal (6-9 PM). We've settled on Bongo After Hours once again. I've emailed all of you several options to deal with the parking snafu we got into; if you want to park at my house and drive you over, just call me or e-mail me to let me know. See ya there!

Your Librarian of Congress,
Dimitri

Well, my friends, today was one of the biggest days that we've yet had on the production. First, a warm, warm welcome to Monica Williams, who has agreed to portray THIRD WOMAN, and in doing, completes our principal cast. Thanks to all of you for making the time commitment that will make this project a success - as always, you're all deeply valued and your effort is appreciated.

Second, an adjustment will be made on our planned rehearsals. Some of our principal cast will be unable to attend, which will make a proper rehearsal not feasible. However, I would still like the rest of us to have a good production meeting to detail specific requirements, complete paperwork (yep, those damnable release forms), and perhaps focus on specific performances - I believe we will have Demetriss and all Four Women present, so this may be an excellent time to workshop how your performances will interact with each other. The location of this meeting will be announced tomorrow, honest...

I will make specific time all week for those of you who would like more time for rehearsal. Please note that once shooting begins, I encourage us all to get together during the week, as a group or individually, to rehearse scenes for the upcoming weekend's shooting, so please don't panic if the fine points of the performances aren't completely in place for your later scenes. I promise to give you the attention you need to feel comfortable about your performances.

NOW...onto the really great news. We have DEFINITELY secured permission to shoot at the Franklin Cinemas right in the middle of downtown Franklin. We're very lucky, as it has been somewhat difficult to find a theater that's receptive to the needs of a for-the-love-of-it production like ours, and I want to express my gratitude to manager Mark Wright for being a strong supporter of the efforts of independent filmmaking. At any rate, new shooting schedules and call sheets are now available on the left side of the page; times are now LOCKED barring any unforeseen event. Please make a careful note of all information as our time at this location on Saturday the 12th is EXTREMELY LIMITED. One thing not mentioned in the sheets; since this is downtown Franklin, parking *may* be somewhat limited. I encourage all of you who can share transportation to consider doing so. We will also be shooting our exteriors at this location on Sunday, April 13th.

Thanks to all of you who have made the journey this far. I hope it will continue to be fun and satisfying!

Your electronic male,
Dimitri

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Hi mes amis, hope you're having a great week and getting psyched for our project. Hopefully you're not getting as wheezy as I am from the lovely nuclear spring pollination ritual...

Just a couple of minor updates for today...I've updated the shooting schedule to accomodate some of your requests. First of all, I've moved the planned evening scene from April 19th to April 26th. Hopefully, this will give those of you with Easter plans a more flexible schedule. Also, I've flipped the planned shooting schedules on April 26th and April 27th. Scene 4 (Steven's Car) will now be shot on April 26th, and Scene 14 (Lacy's Car). I hope these changes will help accommodate our friends with encroaching commitments.

Speaking of schedules, please block out the following times FOR CERTAIN:

April 12th - 7:30 am - 1 pm; 8:00 pm - 11:30 pm
April 13th - 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

I will update the call sheets shortly; until then, please refer to the one currently up to see if you'll be needed on these days.

Stay tuned in the next day or so for an announcement of a rehearsal site, new crew and cast additions, and (keep your fingers crossed), announcing a major location...

Your red-nosed reindeer,
Dimitri

Just wanted to thank everyone for the terrific turnout at tonight's rehearsals, which to me were a total success. I hope all of you who participated got a much better feeling of what I'm looking for, and are feeling more comfortable with your characters and the script. I'm looking forward to our next rehearsals, Sunday, April 6th, at 6 PM. Location will be announced, but at this time, it's looking like it will NOT be at Bongo Java (though they've treated us absolutely wonderfully and have been most welcoming and helpful; we'll be using them for other productions in the future).

This will be a busy week for the momentFuture team. The production crew is going to be nailing down the hard nuts'n'bolts of practical production, especially locations and scheduling. I will have another casting to announce, this time for Third Woman, in the next day or so; just finalizing the details on that one.

Incidentally, if anyone has any contacts with the Watkins staff, please drop me a note and let me know...we may be using their screening room facilities if we can talk to someone and reach an accommodation. If you can get us in, I promise to get you a momentFuture t-shirt and my undying gratitude. That goes for anyone who can find us a waterfront property to shoot at as well. Fair enough?

Your wine steward,
Dimitri

Update: I'm pleased to announce that J.P. McNeely is joining our cast as Sylvie's Boyfriend. I'm sure he'll be a fine fit with our happy production.

For those who'd like to just take a quick glance at what props are needed, I've now separated out the prop list in the downloads section. I've sorted it out by what dates certain props will be needed, so feel free to keep it as a reference.

Proppily yours,
Dimitri

Just a quick FYI: new shooting schedule and call sheet revisions have been posted. The shooting schedule now includes a much more detailed prop list; we would appreciate if everyone could go through it and see if there's something they could volunteer to bring. Please talk to Lorie at tonight's rehearsal if you have any suggestions or would like to contribute props.

The new call sheet features the first tentative call times for April 12-13; locations will be added as they are finalized. Right now, looks like there will be a morning shoot on April 12, then we'll let everyone off for the afternoon in preparation for evening scenes that night. April 13 will be a morning-early afternoon schedule.

By the way, if anyone would be willing to volunteer for set photographer duty, or knows someone willing to spend some time with us doing that, please let Abigail or myself know. Digital is fine for most of the time, and I have a Minolta X which will be fine for that purpose, but we could also use a proper film camera so we can have higher quality material for publicity, posters, etc.

See you at tonight's rehearsal!

Your secret admirer,
Dimitri