Esperamos

Yesterday I was at Carl's house hitting his floor with a hammer. Think Donkey Kong. He's long had a problem with an unlevel floor in the dining area and now that he's putting in wood laminate he has to fix it. So he came up with a pretty smart plan to level it out which includes a saw, a 1/2" drill, buckets of goo and me hitting his floor with a hammer.

I tell you that to tell you this: today's shoot has been postponed. We originally wanted to start early, like 10am or so. But Carl's house has been a construction zone and we haven't had much time to work on Columbo. So he and I were going to meet early today and finish planning the shoot, then meet the Muethings at noon. But his floor was taking a few extra hours to finish this morning which would move us up to 2pm, and that was going to put us too late in the day for the Muethings.

Damn. Oh well. I did get the storyboards done, so that is something. The next available time for the cabin is not for about 3 weeks, so we are going to pick some other scenes to shoot in the meantime. We could possibly do the restaurant scene, or some scenes between Columbo and Joanne. Oh wait, who was going to play Joanne?

Motivation

Not much has happened since the driving scenes were done. In fact, you could say that nothing has happened. You should say that, actually, if you care anything about the truth.

Carl started a remodeling project at home so that has held us up a bit. I know. How dare he let his life intrude on the single most important film production ever. I've been cooling my jets a little, working on some music too. I ping-pong between film and music. Except I get paid for neither. Jack Black has an enviable life.

It's hard to stay motivated on this project. Doing this is a load of fun, but it's also a load of work. The thing is, when you've finished a shoot, you're on a productivity high. Because you can look at the tape and say "this is finished, I can point to this block of work and call it done". But then you have to go back and plan the next shoot (which takes forever it seems) and it's hard to want to do that. You really just want to shoot film.

But we're not gonna quit, nowhere close.

Oh yeah, this coming Sunday we're shooting the cabin scenes.