Welcome to Apartment Place Landings

My last entry was written in a panic because I had not yet figured out what project I wanted to direct.

Thanks to a wonderful brainstorming session with me and some of my friends we came up with a very reasonable idea - an homage to the absurdness of instructional and training videos. It's not really a parody. It's not really a replica. It's something in between the two and I'm not quite sure yet what that will be, but I'm very excited.

I'm directing. David Sigurani, who wrote my directing 2 project "p.s." is writing. Cris Mertens has agreed to DP, which is fantastic. Yivonne Vairma has agreed to produce, though I'm still waiting to hear back from her about some things. Becca Kenyon (you know, that twin with the bangs) is going to do production design. Beatrice Gomez is location scouting at this very moment (either that or clubbing, but either way, that's fine with me as long as she's on board). Those are all the major pre-production crew members.

I'm still looking for someone talented to do make-up. I asked Lindsay, but she's shooting that same weekend. Any thoughts, fellow readers? Ashley Hooker was also asked, but she may be leaving town soon. I need someone to be able to do standard make-up, but also someone to do a CLOWN FROM HELL make-up. So, that's pretty important.

Casting is tomorrow in COMM 148 from 11am-2pm. Feel free to come out. Deborah Fishkind is the casting director, which is awesome. Rich suggested using her in class. She's actually been great so far and has done some amazing things in the short time since we've pulled her on board.

Here's a link to a promotional letter I passed out in class for my pitch. It's a fake welcoming letter to the fake apartment complex in my fake film. Fake fake fake.