I thought maybe someday I'd have to commit suicide, but I never thought I'd have to grow up, or get rid of this stuff.
Time rushes on and I never seem to get enough done on the film. I finished the spreadsheet that diagrams all the scenes and scene beats for the cut I have now. There are 62 scenes. I have this spreadsheet printed and taped together on my in three pieces. End to end it’s about 11 feet long. Now the trick is to look at it and discern what needs to be done. Already I have the feeling that it’s helping me to see things that can and should be cut. But it’s only this weekend when I’ll be able to stare at it long enough to actually make some decisions and hopefully I’ll also be able to put some of those decisions into action. It’s definitely time I started to make some changes in the cut.
Gil, Wen, and Ryan were here in LA to screen the film they worked on before LOST TO LOVE, called WILLIAM NEVER MARRIED. Of course they were all curious as to where I’m at with the cut of LOST TO LOVE. They were thinking of when they would see the picture locked, but I’m thinking just in terms of the next cut. Ryan offered to pull some talented and informed people together for a screening of the next cut to help me to continue to move on, so I’ll be taking him up on that when I’ve had a chance to put in a shape closer to the final product, hopefully.
Ryan K. Adams, the DP for LOST TO LOVE (as well as producer) and the DP on WILLIAM NEVER MARRIED, won the award for Best Cinematography at the Downtown LA Film Festival, which is where WILLIAM NEVER MARRIED had its world premiere last weekend.