The Secretest Screenplay

"how about (you say) 'just got top secret information regarding a kickass film project I'm going to work on this summer, and let me tell you, I splooged my pants.'" - Mike Allen

I may not be able to legally blog about this script, but I can sure as hell blog that.

-dk

Fucked By Thanksgiving

At least, I hope I won't be. Not only do I expect a significant increase in my new all time low weight (gotta be cut by Fast-Fizz: the movie!) but this week-long break comes right before the SAT, and I sure as hell know that no matter how much martial artsy focus I use, I am not gonna be studying much during that time. I'll still have a little more than a week to cram everything I can before the actual test, but I really coulda used the extra study time. Sigh. I hope I'm worrying for no reason. SVA isn't that hard to get into and I've been rockin' the SAT prep course. Fingers crossed that everything works out in the end.

Also, sidenote: Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe may be incredibly lame, but I defy you to tell me that it isn't fun as all hell to drop an MK1 machine on your groaning friend. That's AWESOME. You know this. Accept it and move on.

-dk

Pastasex.

The Rough Cut is slowly movin' along. Mike's been doing some edits up at school and I've been working on t-shirts and the website layout and all that. It's not going quite as quickly as I'd like, but these things take time, so it's totally understandable. This is the first movie I've made where there are, like, y'know, plots, so I can understand while teen dramedies take more time than people fighting over magic trench coats or adaptations of men in cyborg suits who bob their heads a bunch and love the word 'fuck'.

Also, we might have a new movie to film in December? Aside from finishing the Rough Cut and (hopefully) filming with Josh Gad, our December slate looked pretty bare. There's a zombie project that we've been stirring around the idea pot for a while, but that's a handicam movie, so it wouldn't really use any of these nifty new tricks we learned over Rough Cut, which was my only real problem with it. Luckily, Jon (that Jewish kid on all the Rough Cut posters) can write apparently, and came up with a pretty sweet screenplay about finding what you want to do in life that just happens to have super powers in it. It's not ABOUT super powers, they're just in it. It's a thing. You'll see. Probably.

This might be the first movie that we legitimately 'cast' cast. Mike recently held auditions for his short film that were arranged via Craig's List, which, hilarious though it may sound, proved very effective. There are way too many good actors and not nearly enough parts, and actors will totally do stuff for fun, practice, or just something to put on their reel. Should we have done this for Rough Cut? Maybe. Have we learned our lesson? Hell yes. Working with a lead we don't know personally, using everything we learned over the summer, and having Jon direct will prove to be a very interesting experience.

Will this movie have a legitimate production blog? Mayhap. An extra person who is obligated to help with production should make things considerably easier. My one major regret with the Rough Cut was not loading the prop camera with tape and a battery to make a really kickass production diary. There just wasn't enough time to think about it. I've been considering assigning someone else entirely to do the production diary/making of. That'd take a lot of pressure off me AND get more people involved in the project AND be a sweet compilation book, once we make enough movies. Good idea, me. Good idea.

Now, here it is, your Moment of Zen.

Ali: mmmm my food is done
Ali: but its super hot
Me: aw
Me: blow on it
Me: also
Me: bow chicka bow wow
Ali: really
Me: blowin' on me certainly doesn't make me less hot
Me: BAM
Ali: really
Me: I'm sure we can steam up a room better than pasta can
Me: SHAZAMBAM

I have no idea why she's still with me. <3

-dk

Rough Cut Website?!

5 am is like, website building time, right? Officially? Pretty sure I read that somewhere not made up. Regardless, the last two 5 am's I've lived through have been completely dedicated to building the official Rough Cut website.

Mike gave me very specific instructions as to what he wanted the site to look like, and I whipped something up in Photoshop, that will then be translated into HTML via Dreamweaver and then slapped onto the internet at http://roughcutstudios.com.

We're hoping that the website will eventually evolve into the website for the production studios (cause, let's face it, The Rough Cut doesn't really need it's own website. It's like, what, 40 minutes long and shot in DV? Come on.

Er, uh, I mean, it is styled in the DV format, and supplemented with HD footage, to... uh... hour and a half...

Donateplzkcool.

-dk

ps: how 'bout that Presidency?

ps2: way to post this on multiple blogs, dk. real smooth.