SHORT

Finished day one of our little short. Had a few surprises with actor's schedules, but it worked out pretty good.

Also, learning how difficult it is to work without a crew when you begin adding "things" to increase production value (pretty). Dave was awesome, however, and we got a lot of stuff done.

Need to schedule a day where everybody gets together and talks about the film, the plan, etc...also need to schedule auditions (we need to re-cast a part due to actor schedule conflict) for 2 parts.

Need to meet about production stuff, and I need to book a theatre to screen When Life Was Good in June. Whew. That's only one day of stuff (and I know I'm forgetting stuff like, find money to make the film, etc...)

RIP Sydney Pollack.

ROLLING

Shooting a short film for my "Directing for Television" class with Bobby Roth.

It's tough to take a detour from "The Red Rooster," but it's a really great chance to practice using some of the new equipment that a good friend has lent to the production. It's also nice to work with Candace, Casey, and Dave.

THE ROOSTER

Things are moving along.
It's time to start working on some behind the scenes footage and photos.
Paul, Edwina, Casey and I have been working with the actors and others to pull together the last few locations and try and dig up a few bucks, sponsors, ANYTHING to lighten the load on my Visa.

If anybody has any ideas regarding potential sponsorships or locations:

LOCATIONS
A fancy "city of glass" style high rise apartment.
A nice house.
A coffee shop.

SPONSORS
Wine.
Food.
Water.
Clothing.
Equipment.

That would be cool!

If you're interested in coming down and being a background performer on Wed. June 11th downtown Vancouver. Let us know!

info@ashleypark.net

Right on.

the name

Of course, the name of the FILM "When Life Was Good" is still "When Life Was Good". Only the title of this BLOG has changed, to reflect the films to come. They're really all Cinemanovels.

That's what we do.

Cinemanovel #1 is "THE RED ROOSTER"

Let's get started.

LOCATE
-Today we scouted Casey's house and it was good. It looks like it will work very nicely for either of the two "main" houses in the film.

SHOPPING
-My TV directing class with Bobby Roth has been great, but it's a lot of time and work away from The Rooster.
-Need to buy gels, a monitor,

ASSISTANT
-need to track down an assistant to pull focus, pull dolly, pull off some help all over the set. Somebody who wants to learn all there is to know about making a film the right way. It's about 7 days on Vancouver Island and the same in Vancouver. 15 day shoot feels about right.

ALL NEW

Okay, rather than continually change blog locations everytime I make a new film...I'm going to keep everything here.

When Life Was Good is now called CINEMANOVELS. Everything else is the same.

This is my blog about whatever is happening now, not ONLY the film "When Life Was Good."

The blog address is still whenlifewasgood.blogspot.com, because that's kind of cool.

NEWS

WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD
-waiting to screen the film for some festival folks in June
-new cut is the best yet.

YUMI IN LOVE
-working on a re-edit.



THE RED ROOSTER
-the film formerly known as Brothers is in pre-production.
-if anybody is interested in helping out physically, emotionally, and/or financially, please get in touch. We could use the help.

We're shooting for all of June.


RED ROOSTER DETAILS
-I started with a 12 page "scriptment" and I thought that would be enough.
-That turned into a 30 page "scriptment" which was definitely enough...
-Then I began to worry about the length and lack of certain details which led to...
-We just had a VERY informal table read of my 57 page SCRIPT. Yes, a proper script.
-I'm getting that 65-70 page feeling, which still leaves room for the camera to breathe and settle in around 85-90 minutes of feature film time. Ideally, I "feel" the film at 85 minutes.