4:20:2011

Today was a pretty productive day, as was yesterday. The big news for today is that another main cast member has been cast! Matthew Fetters is on board with playing the lead guitarist, Jack. In fact, I was able to sit down today and jam out, seriously with three of the four guys that will be performing in the film. The jams were amazing! There was even a chance for us to jam out a couple of the songs for the film. Rockin!!!

First, though I'd been pleased with the latest draft, I gave the draft to the key cast and crew and have received their feedback. So, though I'm not surprised, I'll be doing the additions that will really bring this story to the next level. I'm still pulling from the original stories but again, I'm really telling the story that I originally intended to.

People I'm working with are amazing. Their enthusiasm is encouraging and truly the synergy that has culminated from this group coming together is more than I ever imagined. I've been getting past the initial relative shock at how effortlessly it has seemed to fall into place, like the puzzle pieces seemingly just falling into their places. Warhol would dig this... @ least from what I've heard of him. I think the team would agree.

Tomorrow, the 21st, I'm sitting down with Arin Lampkin to work on the first rough storyboards. Though I haven't written in the additional scenes just yet, we will be at least blocking out the scenes on the storyboard to get a clearer focus on exactly how we want to structure the story, write a pre-final draft, do more detailed storyboards, do a final draft of the script and then finalize detailed shot by shot storyboards. We have discussed doing some cinematics for making decisions in preproduction about pacing of the music.

l8r,
cj