SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED!

First of all, happy belated birthday, America!   I hope if you're sitting at your desk reading this right now, it's with sunburned shoulders and a mild hangover from a weekend of too much fun.   I know I am.   I took a much needed long weekend to celebrate our final delivery of The Lake Effect.  Getting the deliverables together was CRAAAAZY.  

For example, last week, I was very busy finishing up something called THE DIALOGUE SPOTTING AND CONTINUITY LIST.  It's a document which breaks down the entire movie per shot (all 1,309 of them, to be exact) in a table of images and audio/dialogue, timecode and duration.  It looks something like this:  

No.	Vision	Audio	Time code
1	Over black	Sounds of splashing water	01:00:00:00
2	EXT-CITY - DAY CU of rippling water	Sounds of splashing water cont.	01:00:06:10
3	WS of city	Light sounds of the city; Car horn; splashing water cont.	01:00:13:00
4	MLS of Rob standing over a pond	Sounds of splashing water cont; Sound of coin dropping into water	01:00:18:22
5	MS of Rob looking upwards	Sounds of splashing water ROB (V.O.): ...At 250,000 that number becomes fifteen percent…	01:00:24:00
6	INT- OFFICE- DAY MLS of Rob & two business men in office	Office noise ROB: …or two dollars profit per member per month.	01:00:28:00
7	MCU of Rob	Office noise ROB: In five years, you guys are in the black…	01:00:32:00
8	MCU of Dex’s hands	Office noise Sound of report closing ROB: …taking thirty percent.	01:00:34:15
9	Pan up on Dex	Office noise	01:00:36:07
10	OSS of Dex	Office noise DEX: Little Robby Lawson…	01:00:38:21
11	MCU of Rob	Office noise DEX: …I spent way too many nights losing my shirt…	01:00:40:09
12	MS of all three men	DEX: …playing poker with his dad at his place up on Lake Michigan. ROB: Which, by the way…	01:00:43:10
13	OSS of Rob	Office noise ROB: … would be the perfect place, for one of these stores. DEX: I hope he left you that house.                                  ROB: Yeah, the house and the property taxes and all the repair bills...(sighs)	01:00:48:05

...and is a time consuming, nightmare of tedium.   This document is the reason why I didn't get the blog up last week.

Also, last week, we had checked off of the more fun tasks of film delivery on our long list.  Recording Audio commentary.  Here's a shot of the ladies of the lake doing the dirty work:

(Sorry - blogger is not accepting pics right now! but just imagine, me - looking writerly (read: frumpy) sitting next to two beautiful actresses and Jennifer, with her eyes closed).  Pretty sweet.  

Mr. Ross Partridge was much missed but the estrogen party was awesome.  It was the first time I got to watch the movie with Tara S. and Kay.  Highlights included Kay sharing stories of her sunrise dance parties on the beach after wrap and Tara S. remembering her agent explaining to her that she'd be sharing one bathroom with the entire cast and crew...   (which wasn't exactly true - props to T for still coming to do our little movie thinking that was the case, though!)

After all that, the movie was officially DELIVERED.    WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!  That same day, we heard from Disney that everyone is very excited about our script UNPLUGGED and we'll be doing a second draft of that as soon as we get notes.   I am suddenly noticing Disney Channel Movies everywhere and this week, Luna said she, "Wants to go to Mickey's house to celebrate happy birthday."

A total non-sequiter -- Luna's best sentence ever said at a Koi pond this weekend:  "Bye-bye fishies!  See you in my taco!"  

That girl funny.

A warning: Now that The Lake Effect is delivered, this blog is officially going to be much more about writing -- and nonsense.  Prepare yourself.