Prepro Prepro Prepro

So much is going on! Which is pretty awesome.

Let’s see, last update was March 10th… I’m going to try to post these on the 1st of every month now…

In March, I pitched 4 webisode series to my friend Cindi Rice from Epic Level Entertainment. Two of them are in various stages of development. I love both of them very much! Very excited about both of the writers I’m working with who are also good friends.

We also began preproduction on 3 spec webisodes currently scheduled to shoot June 6 & 7. (Hooray!) The concept and scripts are AWESOME FUNNY. (Another great writer! How blessed am I?) They are designed to be a branded concept, so once we’ve shot the specs we’ll shop it around. We already have a company who’s claimed first look. Which seriously rocks! I am very excited to have a shoot coming up and really looking forward to working with the great group of talented peeps involved. May will be all about casting and shot design and working with the art department and all that fun stuff. Cindi and I attended the Cricket Feet Showcase to scout acting talent, and it blew me away it was so good. I believe we are going to another showcase type show in May. Certainly not the only way I find talent, but I do enjoy them.

I finished my business taxes and got them in, which was a huge relief. I’ve since purchased an accounting program for my business so I can be more prepared for my 2009 taxes. I was hoping to get that set up in April… and now I’m hoping to get it set up and my business finances up-to-date in it in May. I actually enjoy working with finances, but it’s difficult to find the time to work on it.

Business lunches and networking have slowed down since the insanity of January/February, but I did finally attend a TubeFilter WebTV Meetup, which was cool. I hung out with the great guys from my project that fell apart in March. It was good to reconnect with them. Hopefully we will work together in the future! I’m trying to regularly watch more WebTV and blog about it on my personal blog, Everyday Goddess. There’s A LOT of new WebTV this year! I’m really enjoying seeing what everyone’s doing. I met some very cool peeps at the meetup, too.

Lately, for me, I’ve been seeing a path where I direct branded web content. I believe there may ultimately be profitable career path there. It would be great to get into directing commercials that way, too. At the same time, there’s also the path of narrative web content leading to television directing. That’s a less sure path, but luckily I think I can work at that simultaneously and hopefully end up somewhere where I’m a working director! Meanwhile, I really enjoy working on web content, so it’s win win.

We had a GRIT meeting last weekend where we discussed the ongoing plans of the group and also the status of the webseries we shot at the end of 2008. Currently, five of ten of the webisodes has been through the director’s cut (including mine!). So there’s a lot still to be done on that. I’m not currently actively working on that project, although at some point I will jump back into it as it moves through the various stages. *After* my upcoming shoot!

And finally, I’m registered for the Low Budget Film School at the end of May. The timing isn’t great because it’s the weekend before my shoot, but I’ve been wanting to go and I didn’t want to miss it again. It only goes to 6pm each day (Saturday/Sunday), so I’ll just have to schedule meetings, rehearsals and the like for the evenings that weekend or during the week. I’m definitely hoping I don’t regret trying to fit it in, but I think it’s going to be really educational.

Happy May Day!