The next week is shaking out to be a real humdinger. Currently I’m cutting a six episode docuseries. That’s my main focus for the next three weeks, up until MIPCOM on October 13th where our sales agent is hoping to generate interest or even find smitten buyers.
At the same time, in the background, I’m in pre-production for my movie The Silver Game. Auditions are in. Announcing cast in the next two weeks (literally today I’m supposed to watch at least 100 of them).
So this week I have a handful of parallel objectives —
First and foremost, I need to deliver two episodes for that doc. Most of the heavy lifting on this has already been done (parsing footage, cutting selects, etc…), I’m just finishing the initial assembly phase. Will this take a lot of focused work? Absolutely. This is the absolute priority for my day work, and will easily take at least full edit days, maybe even some overtime.
After hours, I’m working on the plan for The Silver Game, as well as prepping some sets. The plan is a lot of things — script breakdown, schedule, visual guide, etc… A lot of this has already been done, but now that we’re less than two months out from production, I need to consolidate what we know and update the current timeline. My intention is to write about one part of this plan a day for the next week, wrapping up that document on September 28th.
After completing this plan, I also need to do a rewrite on the script. There’s a few changes I want to make before we send it off to the final cast. So I’ve got roughly until October 5th for that.
In two weeks, my gaffer and I are going to be running some car simulation tests in my garage. Very indie. That means there must be space in the garage for not only a car, but the simulation equipment. Given that there currently is barely enough room for a human, I’m going to need to do some deep cleaning. Is it possible that I wrote a whole feature film just to force myself to clean my garage? Yes! Is it probable? Also yes!
On paper, that seems like a lot to do in a week. Because it is! But it’s also all my favorite stuff (sans cleaning). The trick is to focus on good habits. Sleep, diet, exercise. That’s what’ll keep my mental faculties lubricated and focused. Also no heroin benders. I’ve never done heroin, and now is certainly not the time to start.