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The 48 Hour Film Festival didn’t work out like we hoped.  Well we’ll start with the part where we didn’t turn it in on time.  What we did turn in was an unfinished roughly edited product that shouldn’t have taken us as long as it did to put together.  It’s beyond me on why it took as long as it did, but it did.  I blame no one but myself.

It wasn’t from lack of effort, because everyone did a great job and worked really hard to get things done.  Jac Currie came through again and let us borrow The Saint for the day, and our actors rarely bitched.  We finished shooting with plenty of time to get things done.  Then somehow, post production kicked our asses.  We have been humbled.

After that humbling experience we went back to what we’ve been doing for the past year, and that is making The Local 504.  We learned some lessons and will hopefully do a good job of applying them to what we are doing now.  We went back to our KGB office scenes and have finished them out.  Carrollton Technology came through again with letting us use their spaces.

Vlad was dead hungover and Mihail had a time line that he was working under.  Somehow Vlad pulled his shit together and everything went off with little to no problems.  Carlos stayed quietly in the background and Margaret got to learn some more Russian.  We had some no shows on the crew side of things but were able to move forward without them.

Don’t really know what else to write right now.  I can say that we’re approaching the end of this part of the adventure.  Hopefully soon we can all have a drink together and know that we are finished shooting, for now.  Then we can lock Jonathan in a room until he finishes editing.  We’ll slide pizzas under the door for him to eat.

As usual, new photos in the photo section.

66.6%.  That’s really where we are with this.  Maybe that’s why it’s been so hard to get through this part of the filming.  You would think it would be all fun filled debauchery here.  I really need some fun filled debauchery.

Vlad got in a wreck so we had to reschedule his scene today.  In the end that sort of worked out because we were pretty tired of shooting after it was all said and done.  So in about two weeks we’ll try and shoot his scene and finish up with all the inside KGB HQ scenes.  We really have to thank Carrollton Technology for helping us out on such short notice and letting us use their spaces.  By the way, as far as I know Vlad is alright.

We had Gleb and Lexi back out again and they did a fine job.  Carlos was on top of his game.  Preston limped his way in after mysteriously waking up in Chalmette.  Allan was home sick in bed.  Oh, and there were a lot of goats.  Hmm, maybe that has something to do with the whole 666 thing.

Pictures in the photos section.

Sometimes I don’t know how we manage to get things done.  This past weekend it came to the wire.  From the beginning we went from having a nice location to having no location in just a few days, with only 3 days before we needed the location.  We went from having an actress to not having an actress with only 2 days to find a replacement.  On the morning of the shoot we woke up loosing two additional actors, because they were stuck in Florida or something.  In the end, and mostly in the span of a few hours we put everything back together again and had a nice day of shooting.  Got to thank Jack Ware, Vaughn Taylor, and Margaret for helping make everything come together with such short notice.

There are some pictures up in the photo section and for those reading on Facebook, there are some more on our website:  www.thelocal504.com

It was a fun day on Sunday.  Hanging out with friends, meeting new people, pulling a tooth out of Sean’s mouth.  Good times .  It wasn’t that big of  a scene, as far screen time goes, but it came out well enough.  Hell, maybe it will get some more screen time.  We’ll see.

There are pictures posted in the photos section.  There are some on Facebook and Myspace as well.  Except some on Myspace have been pulled for being too violent.  Not sure if that’s a good thing or not.  Regardless all the pictures are on the website.

Enjoy.

It was a year ago that we started filming.  At the time I was a little naive.  I actually thought that we’d be finished by the end of the 2008, even though I was advised by others that it wouldn’t happen.  I figured I’d just prove them all wrong.  I guess I was the one that was wrong.
Through the course of this year I’ve been amazed by the level of support, and what we’ve been able to get away with.  Early on we didn’t really know how we were going to pull off all our scenes.  My idea was that we’d do what we could, and as momentum built the rest would just work itself out.  These are some of the highlights that I can remember right now.

• When we needed money for a HDV deck, we asked and we received from our fans and supporters
• Jac let us use the Saint to film
• We had no idea how we were going to do our special effects and Pat showed up to do all our blood work
• CANO let us use their roof top
• Bill was able to secure a barge on the Mississippi through Biso
• Lefty got us a great location for our pirate radio station
• George let us use his warehouse
• Tamme letting us use her apartment all weekend
• We were interviewed on television
• Sean has been awesome in letting us use his shop
• Tim letting us use his car, and even volunteered his home
• Ben let us use his car
• Terror Optics played one of our trailers ahead of when of their film premieres
• Delilah sitting in a tub for like six hours without complaint, at least none that I heard
• All the patient actors that we still haven’t shot
• All the patient actors we have shot

That’s just what I can remember right now.  I’m sure there are more things that have amazed me.  In the year we’ve had everyone stick by us that was there at the beginning.  That’s a lot of people actually to keep in this thing.  So I just want to say thanks to everyone that’s been with us this past year.  We’ve had our best month so far in June and are starting to see the end.  We still are going to need help, so don’t be surprised if we come knocking.

There are all sorts of new pictures, so you can see that we actually do stuff.  And if you’re reading this from Facebook know that there are more pictures on our main website than on Facebook.  We hope to have the interview on the website one day, but they still have not given us a copy of the interview so…maybe one day.  More updates to come.