My my my has it been a looooong time since I last wrote anything here. Truthfully I have had probably several dozen silent nervous and undiagnosed nervous breakdowns since the last blog. I guess I can be strong when I need to be. Because I'm still here. Still alive. In no small part thanks to grace. Things have progressed alot in regards to Daughters of Legend. Thats a good thing at least. A great thing. I had to learn to relinguish some control though because the project was stalled and in serious need of rescuing. I brought in a cool producer who came in and did the job I'd been searching for someone to do almost since the start of this project. Me and my partners worked real hard in our struggle to get things off the ground but we had to contend with head butting and lack of experience. Also pressures to stay within our limited budget. If I had a dollar for how many times I wanted to quit I would have enough money to shoot an episode of one of my webseries. Speaking of my webseries I'll be returning to them in another month or two. I need to get back to something fun and not so much money motivated. Jody Watley said it herself. Sometimes its not about the money.
It was a year ago when we started on Daughters of Legend. Things got off to a weird start. We shot a scene in a car repair shop. It was a fight scene. That location didn't cost us anything. The director got us food enough to feed everyone thru his connections. We had all the actors and actresses. We had our stunt coordinator on the job and I was just there making sure to take all the pictures needed for social media. Unfortunately, I had to rush off to work shortly after we'd set up. They were still working on choreography when I left. Hours later while at work I got the first big clue we didn't know what the hell we were doing. They'd managed to shoot the fight scene after hours of practice. Everything went way beyond the scheduled time yet they accomplished the goal. Or had they? You see somehow in the mad rush to shoot the scene they forgot to have any of the characters do any dialogue. So it was just one cool fight sequence with no talking. Later it was discussed perhaps we could use the scene in a flashback or something but basically it all ended up being a waste of time. Well not a complete waste. I'd managed to convince a dude (who got me the little volunteering gig at a local radio station months earlier) to play one of the bad guys. That dude actually ended up surprisingly becoming one of my closest friends (even if he drives me completely insane at times) That same dude eventually became my investor and he started his own company with the nickname I gave him. "Nice Monster Productions" This would become instrumental later on in us getting solid backing for this project.
(To be continued)
