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Shelving the project?
I certainly don’t want to go that route, but problems with our locations might force it to happen.
Here’s the deal: We’re asking everyone we know about locations for our film. We’ve been asking for over a month now. Initially, it looked like getting the locations lined up wouldn’t be a challenge. However, here we sit, 4 days from the projected first day of our shoot and we STILL don’t have a single location lined up for shooting in Minnesota. This is NOT a good issue.
Our biggest need is a bar. For a lot of the other scenes we can find locations easily. But the bar scenes are key pivotal parts of the film. They establish the main character, serve as the pivotal point for the plot, and ultimately a location where we get a major conflict resolved. Because of this, the bar can’t really be written out easily at all. If we don’t have the bar scenes, we do not have a film.
Only compounding matters is that at the end of next week, our lead actor, Andrew, leaves for Los Angeles. Once he’s gone, it could be several months before he comes back in town at best, and it could be a lot longer before he has a spare week to shoot a film.
And so this is my plea for your help. If you know anyone who owns a bar, vacant, occupied, or anything in between, have them email locations@distractedmovie.com RIGHT AWAY. Even if it’s not a bar, but could pass as one, we’ll take it. An easily dressable empty warehouse would make me happy at this point. BUT I NEED THIS LOCATION. If I do not have this location scheduled by midnight tonight, I’m afraid we’ll be shelving the project indefinitely.
What does that mean, exactly? Well, first off, I do not plan on cancelling the project altogether. However, I WILL have to wait until I can get all of our cast back together. That could be months or years away. In the mean time, everything we shot so far runs the risk of becoming useless if our characters change their looks before we shoot again, which would force us to re-shoot scenes that we’re already done with, something that will be a nearly impossible task, considering the Omaha scenes took actors from four states working together.
Bottom line, I’ve dumped literally more than every penny I have into this project. I have account balances in the negatives right now because of this project, and I don’t want to cancel it. But if I can’t get this location figured out by midnight tonight, my options are exceeding limited.