Friends and Foes,
For all those who haven't been in a thousand mile radius of us, you might not know the good news:
Keigh Abrams and
Miyaunna DeChelle have just bought their very first
Canon XL1!
And now a word from our sponsor, Hiro Nakamura: YATTTTAAAAAAAAAA!!!
*Ehem*
While this news might not be the grandest of accomplishments, it is a minor milestone for two struggling filmmakers whose budget is smaller
than the shoe-string.
All kidding aside, I am massively thrilled that we've finally got a
prosumer DV camera that we can use to create and develop our
own projects! Words on an internet page cannot express how elated I am about this new development, so I am just going to type a bunch of exclamation points !!!!!!!!! to express my jubilation!
I must add however, that this joy also comes with an enormous sense of responsibility and a tiny hint of fear. This machine brings the cold, hard truth:
we must act. We can no longer sit around the house in our procrastination saying, "We'll get to it once we have the right equipment". Now we are faced with the doubts and the insecurities that come with pouring your mind and soul into something that may mean jack shit to others. And while we'd like to say we don't care...to face that kind of criticism might make ye normal folk insane. :)
On another note, we
RYF writers recently finished the M. Bell treatment and to our relief, they LOVED it! We're registering it with the WGA and the Library of Congress because we're anal and we're new and we're just excited to be here :). We're filming and editing the teaser for his project sometime next week.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, we will attempt our first foray into creating our own short film. It's an abstract narrative(sorry, no Zombie love stories or paint ball adventures, guys--this isn't "Youtube") that we're going to start pre-production (see, we get to use grownup words now) on tonight. I will be "acting" (if you can call it that; I'm pretty rusty since my
Antigone days) and directing. K. will also be on hand, wowing us with her wonderful work as the great *
writographer she is.
As K. mentioned before, we are entering the Hollywood Black Film Festival as writers, and we are also getting our writing samples and references together for CSUN: Northridge, Chapman University, CalArts and UCLA.
Heads up! Nicholls, BlueCat and many other screenplay contests are right around the corner!
Peep the page in the coming days to see the progress we've made!
Mucho amor y abrazos para todos!
{You knew we speak Spanish, right? Right??? *smile*}
*Note: If you don't know what a "writographer" is, look down.
