Early Shooting / Another September Mux

My three time chunks of shooting Transmissions are fast approaching, and my daily pre-pro has kicked into medium-high gear. I'm pretty far down the film's own rabbit hole, and it's strange to think the genesis of the project only began after I finished something else in early July; only two and three-quarter months of this thus far, while all my other projects and stories have been measured by years.

A few things snuck up on me: a major shooting-schedule change; and then another; and another. Another came the other day, and my four days in early October has turned into three. This vagueness warrants a simple explanation: I'm shooting at my parents' house, and for sound and continuity and whatnot, I need to have the house under my exclusive control, e.g. they need to be somewhere else. In early October they're going to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to visit my grandmother, but the four-day trip was downgraded to three and, well, I don't blame them. Yes, the Upper Peninsula is quite picturesque, but said picturesqueness can only sustain interest for a maximum of about thirty-six hours.

So tomorrow, said parents are shooting a wedding all day, and it looks like I have to turn my planned day of Test Shoots #3 into a partial day of Real Shooting. Nothing major, only some inserts and close-ups of inanimate objects. But having to adapt my finely-tuned scheduled this close to the shoot really rattled me, and I had to rethink my whole strategy. I'm not exactly gunslinging this; it's still as planned and well-coordinated as any one-man film can be.

But still, tomorrow I start shooting and will probably shoot whenever I have a spare hours on hand instead of my original plan of going hardcore for a few select days. So if there was any time to justify my upcoming/relative reclusiveness, now would be that time. But I feel good about the project, and unlike the abandoned Old War and a bunch of other stuff that never got off the ground (a few shorts, a few ideas, a few scripts), I have the confidence to see this one through.

So: Shooting randomly now; shooting not-so-randomly through most of October and early November; then finishing it sometime before February. Considering I'm doing the brunt of the post-production sound work now, the picture editing shouldn't take very long.

And oh yeah here's another muxtape. The tracks before you take the potential dive:

1. Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow, and Blue
   
2. Oxford Collapse - Featherbeds
   
3. Vampire Weekend - Bryn
   
4. Pavement - Gold Soundz
   
5. Okkervil River - Because It's Kicks (special JDK edit)
   
6. Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)
   
7. Broken Social Scene - New Country (Live at KRVX)
   
8. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
   
9. Joy Division - Shadowplay
   
10. A Place To Bury Strangers - Ocean (JDK edit)
    
11. Spoon - The Ghost of You Lingers (JDK edit)
    
12. Everyday Shooter - So Many Ways