The video presentation is tomorrow night. If any among you have ever been involved with last minute production you understand the situation. There are a million and a half details to tend to. The true masters build this into time and budget consideration and to ensure that no one on staff jumps off a cliff. Seriously, even for the small audience I will be presenting to tomorrow evening, the anxiety is similar to the night before the big game. We used to tell our guys to make sure they got a good nights sleep TWO nights before the contest because even those born with ice running through their veins find deep REMs difficult the night before.
And so it has been the last few nights. Unable to sleep I made the commute downstairs to the media room starting work the last two days at 0300. Today we did the set up and sound check. The latter needing work so I am making one more audio enhancing render to bring up the volume as it seems that projector will not boost the track and the amp isn’t, for once, powerful enough. Boosting the overall decibel levels is the final work-around. It is in render as we speak.
As if the tech glitches weren’t enough, my creative mentor, lending a hand with the setup this afternoon, had one comment upon initial screening. She asked, innocently enough, if anything exciting happened on the trip. EXCITING?
Well no, but only because I chose not to film the midnight confrontation with an amped-up wanna-be bicycle thief in a Northern California motel parking lot.
But she did get me to consider the possibilities. One would think, and rightfully so, that over the course of 2,700 coastal miles something exciting would take place. But nothing did. No flats, no mechanicals, no running out of gas, no cops, no road-kills, no blood on the highway, nothing. Just thirty-two hours of comparatively cool video documenting the ten-day adventure.
That was exciting to me. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow if anyone agrees.
I will, just for the sake of screenwriting practice, try to include some random hitchhiker sex in the next episode. Sissy Hawkshaw, are you out there?
Please stay tuned.
New plot ideas: After the the homeless guy tries to steal your bike and next day you pick up the hitchhiker babe and she spends the night in Whitey (cut to the outside view), the next morning you hop out of Whitey to fetch a cappuccino. Five minutes later you get back to find Whitey gone! EXCEPT, she didn't want that stupid bike, so she has left that on the ground. Now you are forced to continue the journey, without the support vehicle. And worst of all, you have the most amazing time and encounter the most beautiful scenery with the most exquisite lighting, but have no way to record it because all of your recording equipment is gone!
ReplyDeleteFREAKING BRILLIANT! I will leave it to the director to figure out how to show the "the most beautiful scenery with the most exquisite lighting" without a camera. That aside, my immediate instinct would be to hop on LMM (Little Miss Mirthy - my stupid bike) and give chase. After all she (the hitchhiker cum car thief) in only the time it takes to brew a cappuccino couldn't be THAT far away! Hence we have just added a high-speed chase scene and another plot twist. EXCITEMENT, ACTION, ADVENTURE, and ROMANCE!!!!! Thank you.
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