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Help Make My Film Production Journal Entry - January 11, 2004

Well, the holidays are over and a new year has begun. I took some time  away from this project for my own personal reflections and spiritual rejuvenation.  The results are a stronger conviction to the completion of this project.

 The Band: I've lost my drummer and now my guitarist. The guitarist had  some personal conflicts going on that were getting in the way of participating  in this project. Too bad, he is one of the best guitarists I've seen in  a long time. But I'm working on replacing him now. There were a few people  I auditioned before him and I made calls to some others that I found on  a website with artists looking to join bands. I still have to put some  new ads up in Sam Ash and the Guitar Center (local music stores) for the  project.

 Rehearsal Space: I had a wonderful rehearsal studio step up and donate  time for the band to rehearse on off-hours. But I also found an awesome  warehouse where the band will set up house for a year or so. It's a great  location in an industrial district where we can work well into the evening  hours and on the weekends to create the music for the film and for the  band demo. The warehouse is supposed to be ready by the beginning of February.  There is another tenant already in there that is slowly moving out. I think  the guy renting it became ill and couldn't keep the space. The warehouse  is also a great space for rehearsing the film's cast once we get to that  stage. I'll also be able to use it for band photos, movie publicity shots  and filming movie scenes when a location is too inconvenient or impossible  to find.

 The Film: I've had the script out in front of me for the past couple of  months to work on storyboards but time and other distractions have prohibited  me from giving the boards the creative focus that they need. My break (vacation  if you will) has helped that a bit so I'm back working on those.

 I originally placed my goal date as September 2004 for filming to begin  but I am now leaving the possibility open that it will take more time to  get to the filming stage. I was hoping by now that I would have done my  first wacky fundraising stunt but reality has prevented me from attaining  that goal. So instead of getting totally frustrated, I am just going to  take each step slowly and continue making baby steps until I can get the  whole thing moving at a steady flow. That at least removes a lot of the  pressure that I have been placing on myself to making this project happen  faster.

 I also contacted one of the local fine arts colleges to find some photography  students to work on content for the website and promotional pictures of  the band. I have one young lady stopping by Tuesday to take a look at some  of her work. Since the other photographer that was supposed to work with  me flaked out on me, I am just going to look for another more reliable  source.

 Once the music has been put together for the demo CD, I'll begin working  on a promo video for the presentation pieces I'm putting together to get  corporate sponsors to donate equipment and financial contributions. I've  already begun putting the sponsorship proposal together. Vince from Arcane  Entertainment has already agreed to helping me with that.

 So that's the update of the past couple of weeks. I have an appointment to audition a new drummer today so I'll have to leave shortly for that.

- Evann Black