State of our eDJEMACATION

Well crystal did get ahold of me again and with the real adress for rachel griffins site http://www.rachelgriffinmakeupfx.com/ check it out shes got some killer stuff that she has done.Im going to phone crystal in the morning and get her number and contact her.well see how things go hopefully we can stay within our budget or less to be able to order as well.If were so lucky.Well hopefully all goes well when i call her.Ill post it here as soon as i get off the phone with her.

SFX ORDER

Well i got the stiched kit,jesus what a peice of shit.the spirit gum was all dried up and shit utter crap.im going to go bcak and ask him for the 18 bloody dollars for it.Cause it might have been worth like 6 bucks.definetly definetly never ever doing that again.The black and white were good but the containers are paper thin.And i got another job to help for supplies and shit cleaning carpets with Carpets Plus.His name is mark and he was in kell os the other day and said he has a wack o work coming up.so ill be stashin the cashin for the movie.this time well order from a warehouse proper like.Ordering from a dollar store only taught us that its utter crap and there nothing to learn from except that we got hosed and ripped off.still waiting to hear back from crystal in van and im going to phone her tomorrow as well as kristine here in town.

SFX ORDER

Well we definetly wont be ordering from clarke again.Completely unorganized,didnt know where it was very unprofessional.phoned to tell me the order was in and when i got there didnt know where anything was.adn we wont be ordering through rubies except if it halloween cause its just high grade halloweeen stuff really.but i did phone kristine bebek again and waiting for her to call us back to set up a meeting.and waiting to here from Cristine from vancouver about her friends website.I might just phone her tomorrow and get some more details about her friend or talk to her directly.the white and black are pretty cool though.but i still need to get the stiched face and the fx gel.

State of our education

Well we got an email back from crystal and shes found a friend with 20 years of experince who wants to get in touch with us.We could still do a class of a sort.i will figure out a list of effects we need to learn.But only the ones concerning our movie.See if she can teach it all to us and the amount of time to dolloars were looking at.I'll try to get it all for four hundred at the most and as minimal as possible of course.then we can schedula a couple days of and go for a long weekend to van.I got many places we can stay at.thats not a problem.anyway post a blog what u think or call.email whatever.and ill get a list put on here with all the effects i think well need.oh ya the womans name is rachel griffin.she sent me her website but it didnt work asking for a direct link hopefully thatll work if not pretty hokey.

State of skitz

Hey dude...my hours have been crazy the last week at work since getting the promotion. My schedule has been doubled and now i only get saturdays off...its pretty brutal...not to mention the last 3 days i have been extremely ill due to my stomach producing way too much acid. hopefully things will get back on track and i will have a permanent work schedule so we can arrange some things and go over what info we have so far...cant wait to see the first draft. ttyl , Skitz

Sfx Research and production

Well the email has been sent off to crystal from sfxstuduios in burnaby so well see how that pans out.I gave her pretty much the things we need to learn or at least some insight on.should hear back from her soon.Conatacted dennis abramson from town here that vicki weller had refered us to.He was busy but wilkl get back to us in the next couple of days.He has an entire studio below his house and everything for production.By the sounds of it hes the man in town here.We could do all our production right here in the city but well see what happens when we set up a meeting with him.I also contacted Kristine Bebek from town here in relation to the sfx make-up end and she was more that willing to help out and give us all the info that we might need including copying her notes and looking at text books and suck.She said she also had minor experience with prostetices wchich is very cool hopefully the kits from rubies are in and we can show her them and get her opinion on them.I will be calling and leaving a message on your phone crhis about setting up a time for a meeting with her.I also called Ruth to let her know we havent forgotten about her,also to see if she might be in town cause she was in and out for the next couple of months but to no avail.But so far we have 2 sources for make-up in town,a source for helping with production costs and maybe even a place for editing.things are definetly looking up,considering a couple weeks ago there was nothing in this godforsaken town lol.

Well my first draft of our 10-15 min short film script is finished.so next i will be transfering it to final draft 6 never used the program but well see how it goes.Our order from rubies is still not in yet cant wait till it gets here.when it does well contact ruth agin and see if she in town to helpus out.She sounded pretty stoked before hopefully her enthusiasm hasnt disspated in the last couple weeks.But if she has theres Kristine Bebek in townwho does have sfx training courses under her belt but i havent contacted her yet to see if she would be interested.there are a coouple make-up artists listed by the film commision but she is the only one with sfx experience.If things dont work out after i email this girl in burnaby about the sfx information im still on the fence about it.possibility to use it for supplies.dont know if wayne will go for it.but never know 400$ worth of sfx equipment and makeup would rock.But also giong to check out renting cameras and get prices could be rental fee for filming who knows.

Meeting (vicki weller)

Well we made it to the m,eeting with vicki weller and it went as we had hoped.We found a source of information and some guidance within the city.alot of our questions got awsered and we are now in the midst of doing a 10-15 min short film first.Then use that as our calling card to try to get funding for a feature film.Though we dont care if we get funding or not this is happening.We also got a copy of rell west a filmakers guide to resiources in B.C.again something we have been ssearching relentlesly for.So our first order of buisness was to find somehwre we could learn some sfx so i contacted and phoned ever place listed from here to victoria but to no avail.Actually i think i have 2 plces yet to call.But UBC and SFU pretty much laughed at me frickin jerk offs.But within these calls i met some one who said she would help us on the side maybe work somehting out financially and she knew alot of people in the feild she could set us up with.But its something im eagy about doing we dont have very much money and small chance of even getting that much again anytime soon.Dont want to get snowballed,so taking my time on that and getting all the info first .Going to phone around and see what i can find out about there credibility.oh yes the film course BEHIND THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS was cancelled due to low inrollment.We finally get something to help us emensly and we get screwed damn it.But no matter onward we go.Also going to be looking inot cameras for filming,one of the best would be dv or HDDV.not true high definition but still good and got a source where we might be able to get half of fees.I will do this if it kills me.

I did get to conatact the okanagan film comission and she sent me to the thomson nicola comission.i was sure it was okanagan ah well.the person in charge is vicki weller phoned a couple of times but couldnt get a hold of her called monday may 1 and did get a hol do f shcedulaed a meeting for the morning of the 2nd with me and chris.Found out there was a 2 day film courseat the collage called smoke and mirros so i checked into it course was 189 dollars and i didnt have the money so our investor kicked in again and paid for the course im now registered and its on the mornings of the 13th and 14th of may.I called skitz to let him know about it and he was stoked also except that he had no monet either.Wayne caught wind and was willing to pay for him also.I dont know how far along if very at all we are but we would be no where if it wasnt for him right now.He gets the first credit on all of our movies now.we owe him alot for this thanks wayne.

reaserch

Well phoning around some more and contacted matt brown from beacon studios who has been a huge help so far and has offered his help.I have also found a make-up artist that will help us,I arranged a meeting with her and it went very well she will help us with everything that we might need and by the sounds of it we might be able to bring her on board.She is leaving for the coast but is going to check in to her old supply house to see what info she can get for us.And also her friend is a film teacher at ubc and shes going to get ahold of him for us. so things are starting to look up for us in this godforsaken town.Uncle wayne gave us 200 dollars for make-up and some sfx equipment so he is for the now the main envestor in our project.also phoned the okanagan film commision to get some info but had to phone back later.things are looking up.