A Man For Both Seasons

I have a couple music videos slated for late 2008/early 2009--
Ad Frank's "Winterthru" (jaunty 80's synth-pop) &
Sarah Rabdau's "Autumn Spills" (melancholic piano mantra).
These are the last projects I'm co-producing...
seriously.
I can't afford to go this route anymore.
But I've wanted both these gigs for so long now,
I'm not going to squabble.
If this gets me to the Big Boy's Table,
then so be it.
We're shooting w/ Steve's Red camera
& I am VERY excited about that.
Both vids will look slick as heck.

I forwarded Ad all 20 pp. of PDF storboards this afternoon,
& all that inking's paid off.
It looks good.
It looks clear.
It looks...wait for it...wait for it...like a plan.
Had to cancel tomorrow's shoot, though.
We were going to shoot one brief late fall exterior sequence w/ Ad
out in end-of-the-world-Rte 31-MetroWest...
but it's been continuously crappy weather-wise the latter half of this week
& tomorrow looks like no exception.
So we bump for a couple weekends,
& then w/ the temperature no doubt at a breezy thirty degrees...
we shoot in an open field for an afternoon.
The main shoot,
the most ambitious thing I've done so far music video-wise
will be in early Feb 2009.
Puh-lenty of time to plan.

I had a 3 hour meeting w/ Sarah last night to pin down her treatment.
We've been going back & forth over the last 25% for some time,
a couple extremely crucial sequences we haven't quite locked...
& even though I left the meeting last night w/ an outline in place...
I'm still responsible for the details,
the order,
the execution of ideas.
With a little over a month's time of pre-prod before Sarah's Dec shoot,
that doesn't lead me a whole lotta time to craft this.
But I'll do it.

Lot going on,
reminds me why I stopped blogging.
I can write about events,
taking away valuable time before or after the day job...
or I can just DO.
I prefer the latter,
but will keep the daily notetaking going for the month,
I won't quit now.