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

Okay, my friends, we have a go for rehearsal! We are confirmed for Sunday, March 30, at Bongo Java After Hours, 5:30-8:00. Let's all have dinner after, shall we?

Also, would everyone like to have a second rehearsal on Sunday, April 6th? It would probably be a little bit looser than Sunday's, but we may feel the need for it. At any rate, let's try to keep the date open, evening hours like this time, and see how we feel about needing it after this week's rehearsal. Thoughts? E-mail me.

By the way, specific things I'd like you to think about: character backgrounds, make up and costume ideas; Robert and Demetriss, I specifically want you to think about how to address the time changes inherent in your phase of the story. Clothes, hairstyle? We will also have detailed prop lists; I'd like everyone to volunteer to bring something for Lorie's prop basket. Also, I'd like the actors playing the Four Women to coordinate their performances with Demetriss very closely; I want those roles to all contain an echo of Sylvie.

That's it for now; go forth and do good...

Your captain of the flight deck,
Dimitri

By the way, if you scroll down the page and look on the left side, you can now find downloadable Acrobat files of all the key production documents, like the script, shooting schedule, call sheets and other more-than-slightly-important stuff. I promise to always have the most current version uploaded, so hopefully everyone can stay current and on the same page!

Innit this internet stuff to swoon for?

Your head geek,
Dimitri

Okay, due to very, very, very popular demand, we're moving rehearsals to another revised date [drumroll please]:

SUNDAY, MARCH 30 (that's THIS Sunday)
5:30 - 8:00 pm (tentative)

We also now have a confirmed location:

BONGO JAVA AFTER HOURS THEATER
(I won't give directions as I think all of you found your way there last week...)

Anyway, be thou there or be thou square...looking forward to a great session with my favorite actorish people! PLEASE let me know if this time just really hoses for you and we'll see what we can work out. Also, since we're moving it later, should we have dinner together after? (My treat.) Let me know your thoughts...

Your lead lion-tamer,
Dimitri

Okay everyone, we're still getting the location nailed down, but for now, the first rehearsals are set for:

SATURDAY, MARCH 29 (that's this Saturday)
1:30 - 4:00 pm

Most of you indicated that this should be an okay day for you, so let me know if there are any problems. I know a couple of you are a bit questionable, depending on other engagements, but please do try to come when you can and a lovely time will be had by all.

Your humble director,
Dimitri

Hi everyone, thanks for dropping in, and I'm really thrilled you're part of the production. Abigail, Robert, Demetriss, Rachael, Patrick, Tabitha, Elle, Gabe, Lorie, David, and Katie...thanks SO much. You're really going to make this project click on so many levels, however directly or indirectly you're contributing to this piece.

The first question of the day is, does anyone have any special food requirements? I'm putting together a list of prospective restaurants that might want to contribute to our enterprise for glory and screen credit, but I want to make sure any special dietary requirements are taken care of. If you do have anything we should know about, let myself or Lorie know post-haste, and we'll figure that into our foodie calculations.

Secondly...does anyone know anyone with a lakeside or other waterfront/riverside house, preferably one with a veranda view? This is the one key component of our locations we haven't really addressed yet. I can, of course, rewrite around any location limitations, but I'd really rather try to get the shots we put together for this in the first place. Let me know or drop Abigail a note if you have someone we can contact.

Oh yes, just for your handy reference, ths shooting dates, once again:

APRIL 12-13
APRIL 19
APRIL 26-27

Your intrepid director, over and out for now...

Well, this is it, folks...I'm tuning into the mighty blogosphere just in time for me to have zero spare time to update it. But lordy, bear with me, I'm going to try and make this worth your while.

No, really.