So, I've been busy.

Yes, it's been a while. As you may know, I made a long drive from Atlanta to Las Angeles in order to participate in a summer course on 16mm filmmaking.

This class is pretty intense. Calendars tell me we're in week 2, but it feels like a lot of time has passed, because every day is packed. Hours of work has gone into learning how to use a real-live film-using movie camera (I've only ever used boring old mini-DV tapes). You have to pay close attention to things like light density and f-stops and depths of field and things I've never given much thought to.

Equally time-consuming is the script-writing process, which I think is almost over for me. My script is actually based on one of law-student-friend Kurt's offhand remarks, so Kurt, if you're reading this, thanks for making off-hand remarks, and I promise to share some portion of the $0 projected earnings.

Now I'm in the daunting process of auditions, another thing I've never done. In fact I've never worked with professional actors before. It turns out finding them is surprisingly easy, thanks to the interweb. I posted a casting call, and in a moment I'm going to sift through about 100 resum?s of actors who are, bafflinging, willing to work for free and for some idiot who doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Some of these actors have been in TV shows or movies that I've watched. So totally weird.

So anyway, that's where I am right now. This weekend I'll do some test shooting, just to make sure I actually do know how to operate a camera. I'll cast my movie (only two characters, thankfully). I'll do some rewrites. Then next week the real work begins.