The last month has been hard to describe…

Started in L.A. with casting and meetings, then a final week in New York and now have been here in Atlanta for two weeks getting ready to shoot.  Our locations are chosen, shot listing and storyboarding is happening, local casting in in process, we have an amazing staff and crew planning every aspect of the shoot.

But mostly we’ve been writing.  Ken and I have spent every waking moment staring into the screen working on the script.  Nature of the beast I suppose – but this one’s been particularly grueling. Many factors to juggle and many different entities that each have a vested interest in the script – and our job to keep on track, keep it one story, one voice.  Which translates into us waking up ungodly early, driving 20 minutes to an office park in suburban Atlanta, rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, drive back to the hotel late at night and pass out.  I have to say it’s a pretty great job – getting paid to use my brain all day and sitting in a comfortable chair.  Plus if I make mistakes, nobody loses a limb or anything.  But it’s also unbelievably tiring, and take its toll on my body, my family, my sanity.

I think in filmmaking I always tend to be impatient to get to the next phase of the process.  Right now that’s where I am.  Looking forward to being done with the writing (never happens) and into the shooting.  We have an AMAZING cast and I can’t wait to see them all when they get here.

Okay enough typing and watching Oceans 11 on cable. Going to bed.