I'm glad to see I'm not the only one

Craig hasn't been blogging much lately either, and I know its because he's too busy working on the short, and I'm too busy working period, so that gives me my excuse. Finally got the dishes done last night, but then I cooked dinner tonight and made another mess...oh well.
I'm looking forward to this weekend. I've contacted several of my friends to really light the fires under their bums to get their garage sale donations to me asap. I'm going to spend Sat and Sun doing pickups and running other errands. I'm also looking forward to spending some time with my bud Shannon on Saturday morning. Its been too long since I've been able to hang out with her and she's always such a solid and inspiring person to be around so I'm hoping she'll give me that little nudge of creativity I need to figure out how to keep producing this short.
Truth be told, I'm really an ancillary member of this production team. With my current work status, unfortunately most of the work is falling on Josh, Craig, and Kimberly's shoulders. It seems like every time I take 15 minutes from my day to make phone calls and check emails, it turns into 45min to an hour, and then I've used up my lunch break and I'm stuck chowing down my soup at my desk, spilling it all over my papers. I'm starting to leave a little earlier each night, which I feel bad about, but I actually think its somewhat expected and that people are a little suprised I'm there as late as I am. I am super bummed I'm not able to be more involved. This is something I want to make a career of and if I can't get any experience then I'll never go anywhere with it. I did spend some time on this festival website tonight scoping out potential festivals to submit to, but I don't really understand the process yet and shit, we're not even 1/4 of the way done with our press kit materials and the movie isn't made and I need to go to sleep.

Cramming a week into a day

Its Monday today and I'm already wishing it was Friday. Thank goodness we brought a production coordinator, Kimberly, on to the project to do all the things I keep thinking "I need to do that" and just don't have time for. I came to the realization today that I'm probably not going to be around for the shooting of this short as I don't think I will be finished with my job by then. If I didn't need to sock some cash away for the upcoming dry months I wouldn't do it, and I'm really bummed I won't be there for the action, but...
At least things seem to be coming together more and more smoothly each day. We've raised some money and have secured our principal location. Kimberly found a casting space today that will let us use the place for free so casting will be next week. We're still trying to find a sound guy, and I have few more locations to find. Also, the amazing Caroline Karlen is coming on to do wardrobe and be our buyer and I couldn't be more thrilled because she is one of the few people I unconditionally trust to get the job done and on or underbudget to boot.
There just aren't enough hours in the day, and already I'm feeling the need to go to sleep.
But the dishes have been sitting dirty in the sink for over a week it seems and I fear they'll have to sit there a few days more. Oh well, someday there will be housekeepers. Keep hope alive.

The Joy of Production

First let me say that it is such a sweet luxury to have internet in my apartment now. Since my new job doesn't give me much time to do anything else (and I don't even sit at a desk with a computer...hell, I don't even sit at a real desk) its a great convenience to be able to come home and do all of my work from my kitchen table. That being said, I'm a little sad that I'm not able to complete more of my producer duties due to my work schedule. I just don't have the privacy to be making all the phone calls and do all the research I need to do. I'm afraid its going to put us behind schedule, but since we don't have a firm schedule yet, I guess that would be kinda hard to do.
Speaking of, I realized I need to update our PIF calendar and also my own calendar to reflect some appointments and engagements I recently made. Better do that now before I get completely fired!

First Official PIF Fundraiser

HELP US MAKE MOVIES!

HUGE GARAGE SALE

Saturday & Sunday

Oct 7-8, 8am-2pm

5210 Martin Ave 78751

We’re holding a garage sale to fund a new short film: A quirky character driven comedy about a greenhouse worker with a problematic girlfriend.

Many visual and performing arts such as ballet and theater rely on donations and fundraisers for the bulk of their operating funds.

Independent film is no different.

Money raised helps cover equipment and supply costs during our production.

No time to make the sale?
Donate online at:
www.myspace.com/PepperIslandFilms

Or by clicking

No Cash or Time?
Give us your spare junk so we can turn it into treasure.
We'll even pick up your donations!

For more information please contact us: PepperIslandFilms@gmail.com

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT,

Joshua Krilov, Craig Elrod,

Megan Bertrang, and Adrienne Dawes

Yay! Back to Work Dears

Time to get serious about this blog thing. I've succumbed to the need to use myspace, primarily because I've become affiliated with Pepper Island Films and we're using myspace to promote our films and document our activities.
I've been so busy since getting back to Austin a few weeks ago. I've been working on a movie called The Hitcher, just doing wrap accounting stuff. Then I'm gonna do a few weeks on the Tarantino portion of GrindHouse and in between in PIF stuff.
So much to do and so much to cram into such a tight schedule!