Weekend

Lily has been accepted to the Fright Night Film Festival in Kentucky. August 15-17.
http://www.frightnightfilmfest.com/

I think we are up for best short at this festival.


Back to my musings of Lily. In June I moved out to LA and immediately saw there were no plans in place to start shooting. In fact, there was still a bit of casting to handle. Then there was the shooting schedule to make. And all the props to buy.

A note on shooting schedules, do not use pen.


But first I needed a bedroom. We stuffed a couch in the kitchen, and bada beep bada boop, bedroom. The living room was to be cleared out to make way for our largest studio set, the white room. Muslin!

The purchase of the white muslin was a funny tale. We found the fabric place online. It was over in the valley, the inside was dark and filled with more muslin then one could imagine. No sales person was in sight. A man, nay a gremlin of a man came out to help us, he had long fingernails and reeked of coffee. I was slightly convinced at that time that if the undead walked among us, this man would have been one of them.

"How much you want?" He asked.

"A whole roll of it," we replied.

This blew his mind, what could two nice boys like us want with all that muslin? He was not empowered to make a decision on the market price of the white. He pointed us to a back corner muttered something about go see the boss. The boss was a used car salesman, who had found himself a gold mine in the fabric trade. He took one look at us and knew we weren't in the fab-biz, as they call it in the trades.

"Well we don't have a whole roll of muslin here," the boss told us. I could sense his bluff, he was stalling for time, trying to feel us out. "Now what's this for again?"

"We're using it to build a white room, for a set."

"Oh, a movie, I knew it, you boys aren't from California right?"

"No, we're from New York."

"New York," he said, "never felt the need to go there. I mean if I want tall buildings, I just go to downtown LA."

He meant to squeeze us. Like all the other merchants we crossed paths with on this trip. This was in fact Los Angeles, a city where they are often suspicious and none to kind to us movie folk.