09/07/2024
Film Project Update 2: Things are ramping up, and the more they do the more I begin to understand the role of a writer when it comes to pre-production. In the film industry, there's a saying everyone lives and dies by. It's "Hurry up and wait!" meaning everything is busy work. Everything moves fast, but happens slow. But for writers it's more like, "Wait and hurry up!" For instance, in the beginning I just let them do their thing, right? It's auditions and casting. contracts and agreements. Then it's shot schedules and table reads. Prop listing and marketing meetings. So as a writer I just kind of sit back and observe, sip my coffee, go "Ahhhh," and wait for someone to scream "REWRITES!" Then, everyone sits back, sips their coffee and goes, "Ahhhh," while I go into desperate scramble mode, rewrite, polish, move, cut and replace while the whole world waits. All eyes are on you, so it's GO time! Inevitably, my producer will snicker, "Dude, how long could it possibly take to write a scene, let's goooo!" And then boom! It's off, and I collapse. And then for everyone else it's light speed again. But as long as we're all hurrying up and waiting in the same direction, we're good. And this crew... yeah, we're good. I'm starting to get very excited to see what we can do.
