Happy New Year!
While I'd rather look forward to the year ahead than the one that was, I've thought a lot recently about 2007. It's been a life-altering year. This time last year, I was wondering if Women's Studies was even going to be able to happen. A year later, the film is in the can being edited. It's crazy. Deacades from now, when I look back on 2007, it will ALWAYS be the year I made "that crazy horror movie." And I'll look back on it with fondness, laughter, and a great sense of accomplishment.
I have a lot of good memories of the production, the people, and the even the problems. In recent weeks, I've found myself laughing at situations and events that at the time they were occurring, I never dreamed I would EVER find funny. "Distance lends perspective," the prolific but mysterious "they" say. It gives you the ability to see the whys and wherefores of the chaos.
While 2007 was the year cast and crew shot Women's Studies, 2008 is the year we'll finish and release the movie. I'm very excited about the opportunity to show people what we've done. There's still a great amount of work to be completed in order to get there, but this will be the year it happens. There's a real joy to that thought, that after what will be almost two years of work, we'll finally be able to show people what we've done.
2008 is here! The year of Women's Studies! May it bring happiness, success, and growth to everyone.
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Just wait till it's all over and you sit back and go "what do we do now?". It will be weird to have nothing but the day job to worry about.
You may sit back and say "what now" but you definitely won't have to go back to a day job. This film is going to turn out so well you'll be able to live in the film industry and not have to worry about a day job. In fact, that will happen with most of those involved if they want it to and pursue it :)
I usually try to stay out of the comments on these things, but I want to chime in with MBS for sec. The hope is that Women's Studies is successful enough that it IS the day job when all is said and done. Keep in mind that "successful doesn't necessarily mean "rich and famous." It's simply that I'm in this to win this. The whole point of making the movie was to create the opportunity for me to work in film full time.
As far as, "What now?" goes, I hope that's not much of a problem either. If the amount of people asking me, "What are you going to do next?" is any indication, it shouldn't be.
That said, Brandon, when the time comes it will indeed be extremely strange to be finished with Women's Studies after giving as much time as I have to it.
I know after I work three jobs for weeks then suddenly two of them are done. I go home and sit down and feel like I don't belong there. I should be out somewhere working.
You people are all taking for granted that I will not murder Lonnie at some rough point in the post-production process; that I won't stuff his lifeless carcass with every last vestige of Women's Studies data (and a couple bowling balls) and sink it into the darkest, nastiest parts of the Anacostia. Assuming that this scenario, or any other of the dozen or so I've considered, will not come to pass because it's too outlandish or unthinkable is foolhardy on your part...
Happy New Year!
Lonnie, watch out! I think Jim'll do it. He's so shady that way
This things do happen, to bad for Lonnie though.
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