:: anne in the attic ::

Create Your Own Countdown

:: Sunday, May 06, 2007 ::

Last night was good. Somehow, I leapt over/crashed through the social barriers and connected with the people with whom I wanted to connect. It had been a while for some of them. The venue was beautiful, with a 360-degree panormamic view of the Willamette Valley. The libations were perfect, and the weather was fine. The usual trepidations were quite toned down.

I am a bit on the hazy side this morning, but I'm up and rewriting some notes for an interview I'm filming later. Somehow, I managed to run out of decent coffee earlier in the week and not restock, so I'm making do with some English Breakfast tea for now, but I foresee a jaunt to Dutch Bros. in the near future for some real punch. So far, it looks as though we may be able to film outside, as it's gorgeous.

Oh yeah, and I received the Barney Rosenzweig book in the mail on Friday. I immediately put a 140-page dent into it, and am relishing some time perhaps this evening to dive back in. It's really fascinating to get the story of "Cagney & Lacey" right from the horse's mouth. If only Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless would write their stories from the same time period.... Anyway, I feel somewhat of a kinship with Barney (albeit a small & amateurish one), as I'm trying to produce a film as well. One of the things he said about himself as an editor hit home so fast and hard that I know this is my calling, if only too late in life. He wrote of being able to look at the same piece of film endlessly and not tire of it. When editing film clips, and the juxtapositions click just right, you know it. It's not something you can delineate easily on paper; it's a sense, I believe. I totally feel that. So much so, in fact, that I have probably committed a huge sin in never mapping out a storyboard for the documentary. At least not while we're still in production. Once we hit definite postproduction, maybe. But even then, I feel I already know each minute of the 40+ hours we have on film enough to pull from it and arrange the story I want to tell. At least I hope so. I firmly believe that the hardest part of this film will be the licensing-- the endless paperwork and jumping-through-hoops that will allow the story to be told. Really, the story itself is already written, being that it's factual, a documentary. The job-- and I'm pretty sure I can pull it off-- is to make it appealing to watch. After that, it's all about permissions.

P.S. Biopsy=negative, foot is at 90% and rising.

:: Anne 7:48 AM [smartass remarks] ::
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