I just looked back at my journal and saw that i never wrote about my film set, so here goes...

Pints of Guinness....The short film was inspired by my girlfriend Amanda and the song Pints of Guinness make you stronger by Against me! I blatantly named it after the song because i wanted people to make that connection with it...

the week of the film we had alot of problems, we lost both actors...completely last minute and struggled to find some last minute actors, we did thanks to the help of Lex Lopez the greatest producer of all fucking time.

the day before the shoot i picked up all my equipment and went straight tom Lex's house to set up the house for the shoot. we redesigned her bedroom to make it look like it did in my head and i must admit it was pretty damn close, and we also made her living room look like an art gallery.

so the day of the film i was up pretty fucking early getting things ready, surprise surprise most of my crew was late and the bar owner of the bar we were shooting at was also late....my main actor was ALSO about 2 hours late maybe 3. but being ther great director i was i didn't stress i did every possible shot i could making sure we wasted no time. The reason i know that i['m a great director is because i always make sure that i used every possible second on set wisely and squeeze the best art i can out of a bad situation. i admit i stress a little on set but it's the type of stress thats completely controllable and the type of stress that gets me high.

My crew worked very effeciently throughout the day i was very proud of them and my cinematography was also impressive ( to me atleast) we'll know for sure when i get my footage back from being developed...

around the end of the shoot i was cut short about 2 hours because my actor had to leave early -_- yeah actors will be actors, so i was workign like a chicken with its head cut off but in the end i finished every major shot i needed and im pretty sure i produced a great piece, we'll see in a month or two

don't wish me luck, i don't need it. im good

So I've been stressing pretty hardcore for the past few days due to the fact that i shoot a short film this Friday. I've spent all my free time on this project perfecting as much as possible any time i could. I'm as prepared as i'll ever be but even then i still told alex yesterday "you can't ever be prepared enough for something like this because things always go wrong" about an hour after these words left my mouth i had my actor contact me and drop from the film...

what happened is he said he just realized he had to work Friday and we shoot friday....when i origianlly told my actor 3 weeks ago about the shoot day i thought he would have asked for it off...but i guess i shouldn't jump to conclusions like that without throughly breaking it down with the actor himself...

w/e

none the less i was left actor-less....3 days before shooting a film....i have never in my life felt so abandoned i guess is the word...it hurt and i was freaking out what could i possibly do now. My first bet was to change the shoot day to better fit my actors schedule but that idea came crashing down when i realized we only have the bar location for friday morning....

so we decided that we NEEDED to find a new actor, so we had to cancel the rehearsal we were planning on having for sunday night and instead soend the night trying to find a new actor...me and alex slaved over a computer for a whilleee looking up every possible actor we can find

we finally found an actor to take our old actors place, we used an actor who auditioned for the castiong of "Book of David" back when Ronald was here...he's a cool guy and if he doesn't work out i have a list of 15 other actors who e-mailed me this mornign interested in the part...

From here on out its all a waiting game to see what else can go wrong

let's hope for the best

My day started pretty sad

6:30am, my alarm goes off...and i must admit i'm not the bigest morning person. i pretty much despise the thought of waking up before you get your 8 full hours of sleep

so i get up and for some reason the world just looks gray, it's one of those days that on the drive to school (all 25 minutes of it) i can't decide on a song to listen to, i hit "next" on my zune for 25 minutes not once finding a song that doesn't depress me more than i already am.

park in school and a barrage of angry thoughts hit me....why am i broke, how will i survive the next few weeks, how will ever pay off my student loans, why am i still in school, why am i not making movies yet, important ones atleast, why do i need to be awake so early, why is my family so fucked up, why do i smell like i havnet showered in days (that ones all my fault)

as the day progressed i did begin to smile more, thanks to alex and mario who helped me feel better even though both of them were also on a "FUCK LIFE TIP" (thats alex lingo for being pissy all day)

afterschool i passed by my job to pick up my schedule...i work 1 day out of 7....i was so mad...i felt so uncomfortable. i just felt unloved for some reason...

thank god it was paycheck day though, cuz i needed that MONEY bad


i deposited the check in the bank and listening to happy sublime songs the entire way home (through an hour of traffic)...i fooled around on photoshop for a while and that really cheered me up

i posted a good amount of pictures on facebook afterwards, and now my day is over...tomm gotta do it all over again just a bit more hectic...sadly

yesterday we just had a meeting, from the meeting we agreed that the current short film we were working on had to be canceled...sadly "Book of David" has been pushed to an unknown date at this time...good news however lay in the fact that we picked up another job filming a music video for my favorite band Hippocrypt and the Metrognomes, and a possible second video as well..i'm really excited about the outcome of that so far

my schedules pretty packed for the next few weeks:

i have to finish the ClassicoVino website
Finish editing Julie
begin editing work on "No One Else" music video
organize and produce the new music video for Hippocrypt
and if we're going to shoot the second video, begin work on that too
finish all my classes with B's or higher
plus begin work on my "Film 3" project at school


its raining, it's nice outside...

on a good note: Mario met a girl he's really happy with. i'm ecstatic for him