{"id":319,"date":"2019-03-19T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=319"},"modified":"2019-03-20T00:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T00:17:56","slug":"radio-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/radio-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been so quiet lately.\u00a0 A combination of several things all going at once.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t felt well lately and have also been down.\u00a0 Tied together or not, the result is the same.\u00a0 However, I have made tiny progresses toward getting <a href=\"\/TreasHu\/\">Treasure Hunt<\/a> complete:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wrapped up the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/325313264\">outtakes<\/a>, though it&#8217;s rather long (about 30 minutes &#8211; a friend said that the few people who&#8217;d really enjoy it would prefer longer over shorter).<\/li>\n<li>I created an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9814394\/\">IMDB page<\/a> for the movie.<\/li>\n<li>I submitted the film to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skylineindiefilmfest.org\/\">Skyline Indie Film Fest<\/a>, which is less than an hour North of where I shot portions in Woodstock, VA.\u00a0 Hopefully that&#8217;ll mean they&#8217;ll seriously consider accepting it.<\/li>\n<li>I converted the film into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_Cinema_Package\">DCP format<\/a>, though the viewer on my computer wasn&#8217;t very inspiring, as it constantly dropped frames (possibly because it&#8217;s really cheap).<\/li>\n<li>I purchased a portable drive that&#8217;s supposed to be compatible with the commercial digital projectors, though it sits on my bed just staring at me.<\/li>\n<li>I got some of the behind-the-scenes material from the young lady who filmed it, but seem to be missing the interviews she did.\u00a0 Neither she nor her mother are great communicators, so I&#8217;ve been trying to get my wife to act as intermediary (mother and wife work together), yet have no progress yet to report.<\/li>\n<li>I (re)discovered the chemistry tests I did with the lead actors, so will throw that on the Bluray as well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably not terribly interesting, but there&#8217;s some 50 GB of space available on a Bluray and the movie itself is only around 7 GB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Psychologically, I think part of why I stalled is I can&#8217;t complete the Bluray without the behind-the-scenes and without the Bluray I can&#8217;t wrap up the crowdfunding incentives.\u00a0 So I do nothing.\u00a0 Not a very flattering portrait, but there you go.<\/p>\n<p>I was planning on doing a private screening of the movie toward the end of April, coupled with trying to get local newspapers and regional TV to interview me about the movie, but that&#8217;s stalled.\u00a0 I rationalize it to myself that I&#8217;m probably better off knowing if I&#8217;m going to be in a festival (I really should submit to more, just got to make the energy) or not, plus, I have some paperwork I need to tidy up before I can sell anything (e.g., release forms for a few actors, the composer and musicians as well as the locations (and probably a few other things)) and I&#8217;d like to have that done before I do the screening so I can offer DVD\/Blurays for sale.\u00a0 Tortured logic of a procrastinator or valid arguments, I can&#8217;t decide in the mental state I&#8217;m in right now.<\/p>\n<p>Movie related, but not to Treasure Hunt, I submitted a screenplay to a couple of contests and decided on a next project.\u00a0 Finalizing the screenplay was also rather draining and while I have a detailed synopsis written for the next project I don&#8217;t intend on writing until we go on a family vacation this summer since I have other, non-movie projects I&#8217;ve been neglecting.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been a deadbeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I&#8217;ve been so quiet lately.\u00a0 A combination of several things all going at once.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t felt well lately and have also been down.\u00a0 Tied together or not, the result is the same.\u00a0 However, I have made tiny progresses toward getting Treasure Hunt complete: I wrapped up the outtakes, though it&#8217;s rather long (about &hellip; 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