{"id":346,"date":"2019-05-21T10:26:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/?p=346"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:26:56","slug":"domestique-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/05\/21\/domestique-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestique – Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

After much conversation, I convinced my wife to back the funding for a short for my next project: Domestique<\/a>.\u00a0 My goal is to film a 5-7 minute short at end of August this year, then to use it as a form of advertising\u00a0 to interest investors in funding the feature.\u00a0 My arm-waving goal is to film the feature next summer, but who knows how ridiculously over optimistic that is (well, I do; and it is – but a man gotta dream).<\/p>\n

I’ve been assembling a team and have the lead actors lined up, a DP<\/a>, an editor, am ‘recycling’ John as the sound guy (swapping the use of our property for filming his shorts) and a couple of other guys who said they’d like to be involved in the project.<\/p>\n

I thought about detailing my thoughts on why I think this is a good investment (insofar as any movie is a good investment – most are horrible), but my paranoia won’t let me.\u00a0 Not at this time. Perhaps once I’ve got some meaningful investors on board and the prospects of it being greenlit<\/a> are good (or, contrariwise, in a few years when I given up), but even though I know ‘nobody’ reads my blog, I don’t want to create any reason for competitors to my project, but with deeper pockets, to decide to create something.\u00a0 Silly?\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 But creatives tend to be silly.<\/p>\n

An amusing? note on the short: I expected to film a bike racing story with, you know, actual bike racing.\u00a0 So I got a quote for insurance and to close the road.\u00a0 Bad news: the combined quotes match my whole budget!\u00a0 Now I have to figure out how to film a movie about bicycle racing without any actual racing.\u00a0 Conferring with the DP and editor, along with input from others, I feel fairly good that I can wind up with something that looks good enough for the purpose, but I was really hoping to practice some filming techniques in the short that I could apply to the feature.<\/p>\n

Why not ‘guerilla<\/a>‘ it?\u00a0 Well, if anything bad happens, then it’s on me and I don’t fancy that financial and reputation risk.\u00a0 But, at least as important, I’ll be using SAG’s Short Project Agreement<\/a> for the shoot (because there are some SAG<\/a> actors I want to work with and intend to use for the feature, assuming it gets funded) and I feel quite certain if they knew I was operating without proper insurance they’d blackball me.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more on the journey called Domestique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After much conversation, I convinced my wife to back the funding for a short for my next project: Domestique.\u00a0 My goal is to film a 5-7 minute short at end of August this year, then to use it as a form of advertising\u00a0 to interest investors in funding the feature.\u00a0 My arm-waving goal is to … Continue reading “Domestique – Short”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}